Podcast

Whenever a whole plane parachute is activated, there’s lots of news about it, and a gear-up landing is guaranteed to get news choppers in the air, but every day pilots get themselves out of tense situations using the skill and training they’ve accumulated. Well, nothing has improved the odds of a happy outcome than the […]

Rob Haig, Manager of Flight Standards at Cirrus Design, steps in for Cirrus’s Bill Stone to talk with us about the company’s initiatives and partnerships to promote safety and proficiency. Haig explains what’s worked (and what hasn’t) and unveils some very-near-future plans for Cirrus safety training. Duration: File Size: download here

Robert Poole, Director of Transportation Studies at nonprofit think-tank Reason Foundation, has long been an advocate of aviation user fees, as well as a supporter of commercializing the U.S. air traffic control organization. In an interview with AVweb Editor-in-Chief Chad Trautvetter, Poole explains why he sees user fees and a privatized ATC system as good […]

AVweb Editor-in-Chief Chad Trautvetter caught up with SATSair marketing and sales vice president Sheldon Early this week at the Florida Aviation Trades Association (FATA) annual meeting. Early talks about how SATSair proved the air-taxi model using Cirrus SR22 piston singles. Duration: File Size: download here

Epic Aircraft CEO Rick Schrameck was beaming last week after announcing that his company’s all-composite very light jet, the Epic Elite Jet, achieved its first flight on Thursday morning. Schrameck talks with AVweb Editor-in-Chief Chad Trautvetter about the first flight of the twinjet, as well as other developments at the Bend, Oregon aircraft manufacturer. Duration: […]

AOPA senior director of strategic planning Randy Kenagy speaks with AVweb Editor-in-Chief Chad Trautvetter about the recent flap over the FAA’s inadvertent policy changes that affected GPS use under instrument flight rules. He also gives a glimpse into future GPS aeronautical requirements and offers some advice for those currently looking to buy a new GPS […]

On June 22, a P-38 Lightning will leave Teterboro Airport in New Jersey to finish a mission it started 65 years ago. For more than 60 years, Glacier Girl (as the plane is now called) was buried under the ice of Greenland after it and seven other aircraft were forced down in bad weather while […]

Eclipse Aviation President and CEO Vern Raburn speaks with AVweb Editor-in-Chief Chad Trautvetter about the status of the Eclipse 500 program, and he also reflects back on some problems the company has encountered along the way. Duration: File Size: download here

Flight instructor and electrical engineer Brad Whitsitt noticed that many of his flight students had much difficulty with crosswind landings, and his research into the problem found that improper crosswind landing techniques and wind-gust encounters near the runway are the top causes of weather-related accidents. He decided to do something about this by merging his […]

When Texas oil man Mark Bent was flying his motorglider over eastern Africa, he noticed that huge expanses of the wilderness were deforested. When he found out why, his innovative brain went to work, and he came up with the BoGo Light, an inexpensive solar-powered LED light source that is changing the lives of thousands […]