Flight Safety

Winter in the Pilot’s Lounge at the virtual airport can be pretty slow, with days of low overcast and generally lousy flying weather. Either no one comes out to the airport and our flight-school owner starts to panic over whether last summer’s revenues can be stretched through the winter, or a lot of people come […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs In a week filled with stellar FBO recommendations, our “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Epic Aviation at KEVB in New Smyrna Beach, Florida. According to AVweb reader Robert Edelson, Epic really stepped up to the plate on a recent visit, despite having their hands full […]

This article originally appeared in Aviation Safety, Dec. 2005. In aviation, perhaps more than with any other activity, there is really very little that’s new and different when it comes to accident causes. If we fly only on calm, VFR days, pay excruciating attention to our training and proficiency, and operate only new airplanes with […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Dixie Aviation Services at KCTY in Cross City, Florida. AVweb reader Alec Thigpen brought Dixie to our attention: I stopped in twice last month on a trip to the Keys and got a very low price for full service…. […]

[Editor’s Note: Recently two flight instructors wrote a book on how to use Microsoft Flight Simulator X (FSX) to enhance pilot training and to provide sim-only pilots a guide to making their flying more realistic. AVweb is reprinting several chapters from this book, the first of which was Chapter 13 — Weather. To download the […]

Cruising in the sun after a long ground delay, three bouts with de-icing and a half-mile-viz takeoff on a snowy runway can really help a pilot relax. The sun was shining in the big, 767 cockpit window on my left and was slowly roasting my arm. I still had my zone heat up high and […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Aviation Technology at KSDF in Louisville, Kentucky. AVweb reader Don Gay tells us how the Tec team came through for him just last week: My twin Cessna 310 had a bad case of plug fouling and clogged fuel injectors […]

This article originally appeared in Aviation Consumer magazine, Nov. 2005. However unpleasant the specter of $4 avgas may be, it has become a harsh reality. The $5 barrier fell in early 2005, and as we go to press, Signature at Teterboro, N.J., can claim the highest avgas price in the country: $6.10. [Editor’s Note: At […]

This article originally appeared in IFR Refresher, Feb. 2007. Every one of us remembers the old phrase, “Fly the airplane first.” The reference is to our first job as pilots, which is to maintain safety of flight and/or operation any time we are sitting in the left seat and the engine is turning. It means […]

Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb‘s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Prior Aviation at KBUF in Buffalo, New York. AVweb reader John LaCourt recounted his experience at Prior: On our first flight to my wife’s old home town we flew to Buffalo with family friends. With only a hour or […]