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For the past six years, Montana-based Summit Aviation and Eagle Mount Bozeman have run a flight camp for young adult cancer survivors. AVweb’s Kate O’Connor talked with Summit Aviation President Ben Walton, Big Sky Kids camp director Kara Erickson and camp volunteer and participant Nina Garkavi about their experiences organizing and attending the camp. For […]

For backup or primary, there’s a still a need for a reliable, rugged and inexpensive handheld aviation transceiver and the Japanese-made $199 PJ2 built for Sporty’s is the latest to hit the market. At first blush the PJ2 has useful features including built-in GA headset jacks, smart power options and tight receiver sensitivity. Aviation Consumer […]

Airbus has a fleet of highly modified A300s called Belugas that it uses to fly components from factory to factory for final assembly. In this week’s scan of the web for interesting aviation videos, we found this one by mraviationguy who caught some great footage of a Beluga pilot expertly handling a crosswind Hawarden in […]

For news outlets equipped with gyro-stabilized copter cans, gear-up landing videos are a staple. One that occurred in San Jose last week was caught from three angles. As an added bonus, more footage from a gear-up in Phoenix. Both generate some takeaways. For more on gear-up landings, see this AVweb video.

AeroAngel is a nonprofit that provides flights on private jets to help sick children and their families reach distant, lifesaving medical care at no cost to the family. In this podcast, organization founder and president Mark Pestal talks with AVweb’s Kate O’Connor about AeroAngel’s mission, operation and plans for the future.

Equipping a large commercial GA fleet for the ADS-B mandate is both costly and challenging, especially for operators that have specialized aircraft. One operator in Rhode Island—Simmons Aviation Services—has a large fleet of aircraft used for aerial advertising, plus vintage warbirds. It recently certified aircraft with the budget-based ($1999) uAvionix tailBeacon ADS-B product, but not […]

The National Transportation Safety Board is about a year into a project to streamline its accident reporting and it’s training investigators to sharpen their skills on engine failure mishaps, many of which have been closed with no known cause. The NTSB’s vice chairman, Bruce Landsberg, told AVweb in this wide-ranging podcast this month, that a backlog […]