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Flight instructor and electrical engineer Brad Whitsitt noticed that many of his flight students had much difficulty with crosswind landings, and his research into the problem found that improper crosswind landing techniques and wind-gust encounters near the runway are the top causes of weather-related accidents. He decided to do something about this by merging his […]

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Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive Move over, Jack Bauer! If you think you accomplish a lot in one day, check out this week’s time-lapse map showing all of FedEx’s flights inside the continental U.S. over a 25-hour period. Suddenly Memphis is starting to look a lot like the center of the universe … . Don’t […]

When Texas oil man Mark Bent was flying his motorglider over eastern Africa, he noticed that huge expanses of the wilderness were deforested. When he found out why, his innovative brain went to work, and he came up with the BoGo Light, an inexpensive solar-powered LED light source that is changing the lives of thousands […]

Greg Lewis from the National Test Pilot School speaks to AVweb‘s Mike Blakeney about unusual attitudes and how to cope with them, in this supplement Aviation Safety magazine’s June 2007 issue. Duration: File Size: download here

AVweb Editor-in-Chief Chad Trautvetter spoke with DayJet President and CEO Ed Iacobucci to see what the per-seat, on-demand operator is doing to prepare for its service launch with Eclipse 500 very light jets, as well as to find out how he feels about the delays at Eclipse Aviation. Duration: File Size: download here

Recommend a Video |VOTW Archive With fire-fighting season upon us, we’d like to call your attention to the amazing heavy water bombers that turn the tide of so many forest fire battles in North America each year. This week’s clip comes to us from the folks at Dryden Regional Airport in Ontario, Canada. Take a […]

Pogo Jet President Cameron Burr spoke with AVweb Editor-in-Chief Chad Trautvetter earlier this week at the Business Models for VLJs and Light Jets Conference in West Palm Beach, Florida. Duration: File Size: download here

Retired TWA captain and renowned radar lecturer Dave Gwinn chats with Glenn Pew about the importance (and limitations) or radar in the IFR system. You may be surprised at what you can learn from Gwinn if you spend a few minutes with him … . Duration: File Size: download here

Last week, Lockheed Martin began final implementation of its new flight services system in the Washington area, and it didn’t go exactly according to plan. There were dropped flight plans and a lot of frustrated pilots who suddenly found themselves dealing with briefers who didn’t understand the procedures for flying in the restricted airspace around […]