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Volume 25, Number 35a

August 27, 2018

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Glider Altitude Record Now 62,473 Feet

Russ Niles

Airbus’s Perlan II glider shattered its own altitude record Sunday reaching 62,473 feet over the mountains of Patagonia in southern Argentina. The massive sailplane touched down at about 2:40 p.m. local time after a 5.5 hour flight riding the mountain waves that blow through the area of El Calafate Airport in the wildly beautiful area in the southwest corner of the country.

When There's No Need for Speed

Paul Bertorelli

Writing about landings gone bad is a perennial favorite of aviation columnists. And guess what? There's an unending supply of raw material. In today's blog, we offer this bit of advice: No one can help you with your crappy landings. Figure it out for yourself.

Why Light Sport Airplanes Suffer So Many Crashes

Paul Bertorelli

Light sport airplanes were supposed to be a cheaper alternative to certified aircraft and they are. But AVweb's look at the accident record of these airplanes confirms what many skeptics worried about: They suffer more crashes than standard category aircraft. This video explains why.

Lycoming 'When can an engine give you 200
extra flying hours?'

RC Pilots Protect Turf

Russ Niles

The powerful radio control aircraft lobby is squaring off against the FAA, Department of Defense and some members of Congress over the future of their hobby and the government departments may be outgunned politically.

Burning Man Lands A 747

Russ Niles

Burning Man, the massive art and culture festival in the Nevada desert, has always had an aviation angle (including an airport with a tower staffed by ATC volunteers) but the ostentatious gathering of dissimilar minds took that to a new level this year.

Martha King Appointed To CAP Board Of Governors

Kate O'Connor

The Civil Air Patrol (CAP) has announced that Martha King, co-chair and co-owner of King Schools, has been appointed to CAP’s Board of Governors. King will be succeeding retired U.S. Air Force Major General Teresa Marné Peterson when Peterson’s second three-year term comes to an end in November.

Dynon Expands Its Certified Retrofit Avionics Suite

Larry Anglisano

Dynon Avionics says it is expanding the capabilities and the STC approvals for the Dynon HDX Certified retrofit flight display system. This includes a second display option, a Dynon VHF comm radio and an STC for installing the system in Beechcraft Bonanzas and Piper Senecas, with other approvals planned in the coming year.

Industry Round-up, August 17, 2018

AVweb Staff

This week, AVweb’s weekly new roundup uncovered reports on National Aviation Day celebrations at the Air Zoo and a visit from members of the U.K.’s All-Party Parliamentary Group on General Aviation.

Top Letters And Comments, August 24, 2018

This week's letters brought comments from readers about Garmin's lawsuit against uAvionix, EASA approving simpler GA rules, special VFR and virtual reality flying.

Negotiating With ATC

Ted Spitzmiller

Often negotiation is a simple process of communicating to ATC what you want to do and working around the limitations imposed by what the controller cannot legally let you do. Too often pilots fail in negotiation because they don’t fully understand the legal limitations under which the controllers are working.

Picture of the Week, August 23, 2018

Flying my Rans S-12S Light Sport on final for 26L Brown Field Municipal Airport (KSDM). Taken with a GoPro mounted under tail and set to take a photo every 2 minutes. Photo by Peter Sigrist.

Brainteasers Quiz #246: Let There Be No Confusion

Before beginning a flight, FAR 91.103 says that a pilot must become familiar with all available information concerning that flight, plus anticipate the weird unavailables that could pop up, making it possible to ace this quiz.

Click here to take the quiz.

Short Final: Reroute!

As soon as Hurricane Irma had moved inland north of Florida, there was a lot of traffic heading east back into the Florida panhandle from the Gulf Coast; you could see the line of traffic on ADS-B stretching for miles.

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