Podcast

Although EFIS systems are supposed to fail less often than iron gyros, they do still fail. Cirrus expert instructor John Fiscus, of Kirkland, Washington’s Flight Academy, tells how he trains pilots to deal with PFD failures in glass-equipped airplanes. As with any other emergency, it requires a basic procedure, then drill, drill, drill. This podcast […]

2007 was the safest year on record for the most popular of the adrenaline sports, skydiving! In this podcast, the U.S. Parachute Association’s Executive Director, Ed Scott, tells AVweb‘s Mike Blakeney why the safety record (and membership rolls, for that matter) continue to spiral upward. Duration: File Size: download here

Most of the now 70 manufacturers of Light Sport Aircraft and their supporting vendors are well represented this weekend in Sebring, Florida – site of the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo 2008. Dan Johnson of LAMA (ByDanJohnson.com) gives us an update from on-site at the Sebring Regional Airport. Duration: File Size: download here

IFR editor Jeff Van West interviews Terminal Procedures expert and FAA gadfly Dog Brenneman. Brenneman describes the two most overlooked items in preparing for an instrument flight, explains why ATC doesn’t care how you fly the hold, and tells you how to stay on an airway after the CDI needle literally falls off the instrument. […]

Early on in your pilot training, you may have been taught the spot-on-the-windshield method of determining a visual glidepath. In this sample from Belvoir’s Pilot’s Audio Update, Dick Taylor reviews the method and illuminates the finer points. For more on subscribing to Pilot’s Audio Update, click here. Duration: File Size: download here

The streets seem like they’re paved with gold for the aerospace industry, but are there any speedbumps looming? Will Alibrandi is an analyst for Forecast International, a major market intelligence firm focusing on aerospace and defense. He spoke with AVweb‘s Russ Niles on the future prospects of the industry and the role of the major […]

Why is it that some of us fly better 360 turns to the left, while others ace the right-side turn? And why do some of us prefer a right crosswind, while others do better with one from the left? In this sample from Belvoir’s Pilot’s Audio Update, Paul Berge argues that it has everything to […]

“If we don’t have our dreams, we have nothing” – that’s a quote from the recent Polish brothers movie The Astronaut Farmer, staring Billy Bob Thornton and Virginia Madsen. But if you thought that “dream” was simply too large for a private citizen to really consider, think again! AVweb‘s Mike Blakeney introduces you to Craig […]

No more than any other airplane, according to Suburban Air Freight’s Geoffrey Gallup. Aviation Safety magazine’s Jeb Burnside interviewed Gallup to learn more about recent attention directed at the Caravan. The January issue of Aviation Safety features an in-depth article on how Cessna, the industry, and the FAA worked together to better understand how to […]

When Steve Fossett disappeared on a flight in Nevada in September, tens of thousands of people, many of them AVweb readers, joined the search via Amazon.com’s Mechanical Turk, a program that allows anyone with an internet connection to view satellite imagery of the search area. A few of those volunteers continued their efforts for months, […]