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Most of the now 70 manufacturers of Light Sport Aircraft and their supporting vendors are well represented this weekend in Sebring, Florida – site of the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo 2008. Dan Johnson of LAMA (ByDanJohnson.com) gives us an update from on-site at the Sebring Regional Airport. Duration: File Size: download here

IFR editor Jeff Van West interviews Terminal Procedures expert and FAA gadfly Dog Brenneman. Brenneman describes the two most overlooked items in preparing for an instrument flight, explains why ATC doesn’t care how you fly the hold, and tells you how to stay on an airway after the CDI needle literally falls off the instrument. […]

Early on in your pilot training, you may have been taught the spot-on-the-windshield method of determining a visual glidepath. In this sample from Belvoir’s Pilot’s Audio Update, Dick Taylor reviews the method and illuminates the finer points. For more on subscribing to Pilot’s Audio Update, click here. Duration: File Size: download here

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive We’ve checked in on the Glenn Curtiss Museum‘s “Project America” before, but angelica4709 keeps posting updates on YouTube, and while we’re still waiting (anxiously) to see the new America get into the air, she’s out and about on the water now: Don’t see a video screen?Try disabling ad blockers and […]

The streets seem like they’re paved with gold for the aerospace industry, but are there any speedbumps looming? Will Alibrandi is an analyst for Forecast International, a major market intelligence firm focusing on aerospace and defense. He spoke with AVweb‘s Russ Niles on the future prospects of the industry and the role of the major […]

Why is it that some of us fly better 360 turns to the left, while others ace the right-side turn? And why do some of us prefer a right crosswind, while others do better with one from the left? In this sample from Belvoir’s Pilot’s Audio Update, Paul Berge argues that it has everything to […]

Original, Exclusive Videos from AVweb | Reader-Submitted & Viral Videos When we first saw the photo of Capt. Chris Stricklin’s ejection from a doomed U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds F-16 a few years ago, most of us here at AVweb thought it was a fake. But the more we looked at it, the more it seemed […]

“If we don’t have our dreams, we have nothing” – that’s a quote from the recent Polish brothers movie The Astronaut Farmer, staring Billy Bob Thornton and Virginia Madsen. But if you thought that “dream” was simply too large for a private citizen to really consider, think again! AVweb‘s Mike Blakeney introduces you to Craig […]

No more than any other airplane, according to Suburban Air Freight’s Geoffrey Gallup. Aviation Safety magazine’s Jeb Burnside interviewed Gallup to learn more about recent attention directed at the Caravan. The January issue of Aviation Safety features an in-depth article on how Cessna, the industry, and the FAA worked together to better understand how to […]

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive Ring in 2008 with a musical melody and a little fun on the runway, courtesy of Chesapeake Sport Pilot‘s Helen Woods. (Experienced CFIs, take note of that link – they’re hiring!) In case you’re wondering whether these musical antics are appropriate, we should point out that the, er “stylings” shown […]