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Pilots are trained to recognize stalls and recover from them, but are they as well trained at avoiding them in the first place? In this, our second in a five-part series on stall accidents, veteran instructor Dan Gryder says no. Taking a page from the airline world, where there’s a number and a procedure for […]

In this week’s video and courtesy of the FlightChops YouTube channel, we’re looking at Dan Gyder’s idea for avoiding stalls by simply marking the airspeed indicator with a minimum speed.

The GA accident rate has improved dramatically during the past two decades and with it, the stall/spin accident incidence has also decreased. Yet stalls account for nearly 20 percent of all light aircraft fatal accidents, amounting to about 35 a year. In this, the first of five podcasts on the subject of preventing stalls, we […]

While we like the comfort of Bose and LightSpeed headsets, the circumaural—around the ear—design isn’t comfortable for everyone. So veteran headset maker David Clark is out with the new Pro-X2, a hybrid ANR model that’s supra-aural—that is, it sits on top of the ear. It’s mid-priced at $745. In this AVweb video, Aviation Consumer magazine’s […]

Although trying to entice more women into aviation seems like a fairly recent thing, the Ninety-Nines, founded by Amelia Earhart in 1929, have been doing it for 90 years and they’re not done yet. Ninety-Nines International President Jan McKenzie spoke with AVweb’s Russ Niles.

A new startup called AeroVonics rolled out the most innovative panel-mount electronic displays we’ve seen in quite some time. In this AVweb video, Paul Bertorelli gives them in a wring out in the most ludicrously overequipped Cub in the universe.

Well, maybe you don’t. But the fact that these exist give the FAA regulatory heartburn nearly as hot as the drone’s flaming stream of gasoline.