Podcast

Last month, AVweb‘s Meredith Saini sat down with Cirrus Design co-founder Dale Klapmeier at the company’s Duluth, Minnesota customer lounge to discuss the Cirrus strategy toward recruitment and sales. This week, the General Aviation Manufacturers Association released its annual aircraft shipment report, which showed that Cirrus delivered more of its SR20 and SR22 single-engine piston […]

First-class equipment, training, and maintenance have made business aviation the safest aviation sector. So where do we go from here? Swift Aviation Group in Phoenix has become one of a handful of charter companies to take its safety posture to the next level by adopting the FAA’s Aviation Action Safety Program, in which ongoing safety-related […]

In addition to being a former editor of Belvoir Media’s IFR magazine, Paul Berge has done time as an air traffic controller. Listen in as Paul regales current IFR editor Jeff van West with tales of the thrills and dangers of ATC. Can’t get enough of Paul Berge? You’ll find more in his audio series […]

Imagine you could wave a magic wand and instantly add a few thousand new controllers, a fully operational national ADS-B system, and plenty of extra user fees. The air traffic control system will still be seriously broken. At least, that’s the opinion of Michael Nolan, a professor of aviation technology and director of Purdue’s air […]

Election years are strange and perilous times for industries like aviation that have potentially game-changing legislation pending in Congress, and the Bush administration’s decision to recycle its general aviation user fee proposal this week as part of the 2009 budget has put aviation groups on high alert. AOPA’s Andy Cebula took AVweb‘s Russ Niles through […]

In case you’ve lost count, this year marks the 25th anniversary of the EAA AirVenture Museum in Oshkosh, Wis. In this AVweb audio feature, EAA’s Dick Knapinski tells Mike Blakeney about some of the major 2008 events scheduled to celebrate a significant milestone for this one-of-a-kind world-class museum. Duration: File Size: download here

From an insurance perspective, the Light Sport Aircraft category is off to a rocky start. Early numbers suggest you’re about twice as likely to have an accident in your LSA than a certified aircraft, but insurance underwriter Avemco isn’t hitting the panic button. President Jim Lauerman spoke with AVweb‘s Russ Niles about what LSA pilots […]

While the crisis in the mortage markets has helped tank the housing industry, aircraft loan markets have been only indirectly affected, according to Mike Jacobs of First Prority Bank, a leading aircraft money lender. In this podcast with Aviation Consumer‘s Paul Bertorelli, Jacobs says high fuel prices have actually slowed activity more than high interest […]

If you have bought or sold a high-performance single or private corporate aircraft anytime in the last, say, half century or so, you might have run across Phillip Carrell. Phil just celebrated 50 years on the job at Flightcraft Inc., one of the largest providers of private and business aircraft services in the Pacific Northwest. […]

Two Iraq War veterans, including one who flew the A-10 Warthog in battle supporting U.S. ground forces, are among the recent scholarship winners who will be returning to the cockpit with the help of Able Flight, the organization that uses aviation to transform the lives of people with disabilities. Charles Stites, founder and executive director […]