Podcast

Control Vision is well known for its extensive and flexible line of PDA-based GPS navigators. Although these products are flexible, buyers have asked for solutions that require fewer wires and individual components. This week at Sun ‘n Fun, Control Vision responded with a new product based on HP’s diminutive iPaq Travel Companion. At $695, it […]

Cessna’s VP of sales and marketing, Roger Whyte, told AVWeb this week that even though it’s focusing much of its attention on the recently acquired Columbia composite line, Cessna is still on track to build the so-called next-generation single. It will occupy a narrow niche between the 182/206 and the 350 and 400 from Columbia. […]

For the past five years, Sferics technology has taken a backseat to datalinked weather as a means of skirting convective weather. But Avidyne hopes to change that with the introduction of a new state-of-the-art lightning detector system called TWX670. Like Stormscope and Strike Finder technology, it detects and plots distant lightning strikes, but unlike earlier […]

As you read on AVweb, air traffic controller Patrick Eberhart of Detroit Metro TRACON is this year’s winner of the NATCA Archie League Awards. In this podcast, you’ll hear the dramatic audio of Eberhart guiding an aircraft with malfunctioning instruments and low fuel to a safe landing. Plus, you’ll hear other amazing recordings, featuring some […]

Monday’s podcast with a California pilot who was intercepted and shadowed by an F-16 in a military operating area (MOA) ignited a firestorm of debate on our blog, the AVweb Insider. Lt. Col Fred Clifton, a retired F-16 pilot who now instructs at the Air Force’s weapons school at Nellis Air Force Base in Las […]

They’re called “use taxes,” and Maine and Florida have adopted them as a new source of revenue. But are they legal? Maine tax lawyer Jon Block is defending eight aircraft owners against the levy in that state, and he told AVweb‘s Russ Niles he believes Maine’s application of the tax violates the U.S. Constitution. Duration: […]

Maneuvering flight continues to claim a disproportionate share of aircraft, pilots and their passengers each year. Learn what “maneuvering flight” really is, why it’s dangerous, and what you can do to avoid this kind of accident. Aviation Safety Editor-In-Chief Joseph E. (Jeb) Burnside interviews AOPA Air Safety Foundation Executive Director Bruce Landsberg on maneuvering flight […]

Two pilots who were transiting a military operating area near Luke Air Force Base last week say they got the fright of their lives from an F-16 pilot who they say forced them to take evasive maneuvers to avoid what they thought was an imminent collision. AVweb‘s Russ Niles spoke with Pilatus PC-12 pilot Patrick […]

In a setback this week for airline passenger rights, The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals struck down a law pushed through the New York state legislature by CAPBOR (the Coalition for an Airline Passenger Bill of Rights) and sympathetic legislators. The court said the measure, while well-intentioned, interferes with federal laws governing the price, […]

Lightspeed’s new Zulu headset is being touted as serious competition for the Bose Headset X. But is it really? Aviation Consumer thinks so, but you can listen for yourself in this podcast interview with Lightspeed president Alan Shraeder, – complete with an actual cockpit demo in Aviation Consumer‘s Mooney 231. Duration: File Size: download here