Podcast

AVweb talks with Jim Bass, the new(ish) CEO of New Piper. With hurricanes, crankshaft recalls, and labor problems behind (hopefully), hear this upbeat non-pilot’s plans to keep contemporary the Piper name, standing in rank with younger designs and Very Light Jets. Duration: File Size: download here

Lycoming owners have a new Airworthiness Directive to look out for … with a twist; a House committee wants to give the FAA money it seemingly didn’t ask for; airlines, AOPA, and business interests generally don’t agree on general aviation user fees; Wisconsin allows avfuel price wars; a 727’s wing tank exploded; helis may be […]

Is there a Light Sport Aircraft in every pilot’s future? Today – Friday, May 25 – AVweb talks with Dan Johnson, Light Sport Aircraft marketing consultant to EAA and LAMA (the Light Aircraft Manufacturers Association). How many designs are presently approved? What sort of aircraft are they? How many made-in-America designs are there? Are any […]

The FAA has issued an Airworthiness Directive for specific ECi parts in Lycoming engines, legislation in Congress may favor air traffic controllers as a contract deadline looms, virtual controllers stage a fly-in for a departed friend, a student pilot solos at 91, light sport aircraft show their range, a Canadian flight academy will train Chinese […]

Your first personal jet. Today – Friday, May 19 – AVweb talks with Excel Jet’s Bob Bornhofen, who explains the difference between his company’s Sport Jet and the emerging field of Very Light Jets. From the standpoint of performance, to cost, to insurance friendliness, you may like what you’re about to hear. But is certification […]

The FAA’s 2007 budget may introduce “tough medicine” for GA that would cut funding to 2,500 airports; the DOT Inspector General wants a closer look at Lockheed’s management of Flight Services following a half-billion dollar reduction in projected savings; RNP technology eases complex instrument approaches; English meets challenges as official language of flight; virtual radar […]

Today Joe Walker, president of Adam Aircraft, talks about progress at his company and with its A700 jet. Adam offered the first VLJ to fly on its production engines and the first to offer a functioning, separate lavatory. The A700 jet shares parts with the certified (with restrictions) Adam A500 piston-twin, which is also working […]

The FAA has requested payment for services – to set up and staff a temporary tower for a small fly-in; alcohol is making its way into auto fuel, causing concern for STC’d mogas users and some 100LL users; AirVenture ’06 is almost here; air travel is expanding exponentially, and so is the pilot-job market; a […]

Today, AOPA president Phil Boyer. Hear what the voice of more than 400,000 pilots thinks about the potential for user fees in the U.S. There is a national trend; there is a worldwide pattern; and if you think general aviation in America is safe from user fees, AOPA president Phil Boyer would have you think […]

Record first quarter GA billing and shipments, VLJ news about the Spectrum 33 and Adam A700, the NTSB’s early report on aviation icon Scott Crossfield’s crash, AOPA on the FAA funding hoax, an upcoming coast-to-coast powered parachute attempt, professional pilots investigated for landing below minimums, and much more. Duration: File Size: download here