Podcast

AVweb Contributing Editor and Aviation Safety magazine Editor-in-Chief Joseph E. (Jeb) Burnside sat down recently with Robert Sumwalt, vice-chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB). Portions of their wide-ranging interview on Sumwalt’s aviation background, increases in general aviation’s accident rate, and light-aircraft flight data recorders are included in this month’s Aviation Safety magazine podcast. […]

For months – if not years – we’ve been hearing about Honeywell’s new APEX EFIS system. We clapped eyes on it for the first time at the NBAA show in Atlanta in a second-generation PC-12. (You’ll find a full report on the airplane in the November issue of Aviation Consumer.) Meanwhile, we interviewed Pilatus North […]

Pilots often think of the ASRS as a “get out of jail free” card, but it’s more than that. IFR chats with Linda Connell, Director of the Aviation Safety Reporting System at NASA Ames Research Center. Get to know the program, how it works, and what it can do for you. Duration: File Size: download […]

When the Light Sport Aircraft category and the Sport Pilot certificate were created a couple of years ago, proponents claimed a new era in aviation had begun because learning to fly would become so much more accessible under the relaxed training and medical rules. Well, if the experience of Chesapeake Sport Pilot is any indication, […]

Things got a lot more interesting in the Columbia Aircraft saga in the last week, with Cirrus Design expressing interest in a takeover that seemed to be sewn up by Cessna. Cirrus CEO Alan Klapmeier told AVweb‘s Russ Niles that he wasn’t about to let Cessna buy his company’s main competitor in the high performance […]

At any convention, a lot of the real business is done in the hallways, the reception rooms, and the quiet corners that movers and shakers find when they need to talk turkey. The National Business Aviation Association meeting in Atlanta and AOPA’s annual get-together in Hartford provided plenty of opportunities for the kind of informal […]

Visit your local airport, and chances are you’ll hear a different sound in the air these days. Rotax engines, until recently relegated almost entirely to the ultralight segment, are in almost all Light Sport Aircraft now being sold in the U.S., and it’s a case of the right engine at the right time, according to […]

The University of North Dakota’s Aerospace program has always prided itself in staying on the leading edge of aviation training, and it made a move into the burgeoning very light jet market at AOPA Expo in Hartford. Don Dubuque, director of flight operations for the highly regarded institution, talked to AVweb‘s Russ Niles about the […]

The light sport aircraft market is crowded with contenders going after the same market niche. Lynne Birmingham of Tecnam USA talks about the company’s plans to move beyond the LSA market and introduce Part 23 certified aircraft including a retractable-gear trainer and a new light twin. Duration: File Size: download here

Walk around the displays of AOPA Expo and you’ll see dozens of digital flight displays, from the new L-3 SmartDeck down to attitude displays that run on a smart phone. Jeff Simon of VistaNav explains what makes their synthetic vision system different and what’s coming down the road for their platform. Duration: File Size: download […]