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This article originally appeared in IFR Refresher, Jan. 2006. The weather is what we all worry about when we are planning an IFR cross-country flight. There are many decisions to be made before and after takeoff, and the wrong decision anywhere along the way can lead to disaster.Some pilots, when they reach the instrument approach […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Premier Jet at KCRQ in Carlsbad, Calif. AVweb reader Douglas Roberson said the staff gets what it takes to have a successful FBO. “When I arrived they gave me the red carpet treatment and parked me right up front […]
I had standardized procedures drilled into me early on — an occupational hazard when your employer is the U.S. Air Force. In Air Force flight screening, flying off-the-shelf Cessna 172s we called T-41A Mescaleros, every flight was a series of standardized actions from preflight to the practice area to landing to shutdown. We knew what […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to Executive Flight Center at KMDQ in Huntsville, Ala. AVweb reader Breck Hopkins said the personnel at the FBO made his literally messy situation better. “Executive offered the best and most helpful service I have experienced in 49 years of […]
It builds up, doesn’t it? You make some airline flights and get treated like Grade Z beef cattle on the good ones. Then you have one where the experience is so rotten that you vow to use general aviation forevermore. And then the price of avgas goes up. Again. The TSA imposes yet another moronic […]
A company in Canada is working on a pair of beefy new single-engine backcountry aircraft that should be certified soon. Expedition Aircraft of Toronto said on Wednesday that both of its multi-mission aircraft, the E350 and the E350XC, have already completed 90 percent of the work required to obtain certification. Both aircraft will be powered […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to City of Wauchula at KCHN in Wauchula, Fla. AVweb reader Jerry Carbaugh said the personnel at the city-run facility focus on pleasing customers. “The folks running the FBO are great. They have the lowest fuel cost around and believe […]
This article originally appeared in Aviation Safety, Dec. 2004. Pilots have many different phobias when it comes to flying personal airplanes. Some cringe at the thought of flying IFR over mountains, whether in a single or a twin. Others refuse to fly over large bodies of water, choosing to skirt Lake Michigan via the Gary/Chicago/Milwaukee […]
The Shell company recently published their Shell Aviation Tech Talk #15 (990 Kb Adobe PDF file) and distributed it to all pilots in Australia and New Zealand. I’m getting a lot of questions from readers there, and from graduates of our seminar.The bulk of the report is an excellent treatise on detonation and pre-ignition, well […]
Nominate an FBO |Rules |Tips |Questions |Winning FBOs AVweb’s “FBO of the Week” ribbon goes to St. Charles Flying Service at K3SQ in St. Charles, Mo. AVweb reader Nick Ruemker said the FBO helps to make flying fun again. “St. Charles Flying service is by far my favorite FBO I have experienced. The staff is […]
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