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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.