Video of the Week

If you’re an aircraft owner, you’ve noticed that insurance is becoming hard to get and more expensive. In this roundtable discussion with Aviation Consumer’s Larry Anglisano, three insurance experts tell us what to expect.

The innovative Slovenian company Pipistrel is still toiling away on the sleek and sexy Panthera single-engine retractable. In this in-depth video, AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli took the airplane for a couple of flights and crunched all the numbers. So is it as fast as it looks? Pretty much.

This week, the innovative Slovenian company Pipistrel Vertical Solutions announced a new autonomous eVTOL aircraft, which it hopes to have in revenue service by 2023. AVweb’s Paul Bertorelli interviewed Tine Tomazic about the new aircraft.

A few weeks ago we featured pilot Erika Jackman singing about COVID-19’s effect on airline flying and her career. She’s followed up with another song that’s a heartfelt thanks to pilots who took early retirement so younger pilots could stay employed and move up the ranks.

Flight Design has been working on a follow-on aircraft to its successful CTLS series LSA and it’s called the F2-LSA. A clean-sheet design from the spinner to the tail, the new F2 is bigger, has near flawless handling and is packed with a long list of safety systems. Aviation Consumer Editor Larry Anglisano recently flew […]

In this AVweb video, Paul Bertorelli takes a hard look at 406 MHz emergency locator transmitters for aircraft. While an ELT of some kind is required for most aircraft, historically, these devices haven’t performed very well. They still aren’t an impressive value for the money.

Hey, admit it: You’d own a P-51 Mustang if you could. In this AVweb video shot at Sun ‘n Fun in 2017, P-51 owner Louis Horschel explains what’s involved in P-51 ownership. If you think it involves money, you’re right.

No AirVenture this year, but AVweb is conducting a series of interviews with people and companies we would have talked to had we actually been there. Part 1 features John Frasca of Frasca International, the pioneer company in aircraft simulation of all sizes.

Garmin’s aera 760 is the latest in a long line of portable navigators and picks up where the previous aera 660 left off. In this video Aviation Consumer editor Larry Anglisano put the unit on the test bench and took it flying for a look.

It had to happen and it did. Pilotedge, well known for its simulation of the national airspace with live air traffic control, put together a successful simulation of the famed Fisk arrival into Wittman Field at Oshkosh. COVID-19 tanked the show for 2020, but that didn’t stop between 600 and 1000 virtual pilots from flying […]