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Anyone who studies aircraft accidents in detail will eventually get around to observing that pilots are trained (a) to pass checkrides and (b) to minimal standards to accomplish that. That’s especially true of stall training, which emphasizes recovery rather than avoidance. In this podcast, the third of a five-part series on stall awareness, we talked […]

Gear-up landings in retractable aircraft don’t happen every day, but they happen often enough that the accident file is rich with examples. In this AVweb Classic video first published in 2017, AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli analyzes some of the stats on gear ups and offers suggestion on how to avoid them.

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.