April, 2008

What does the NOTAM contraction PAEW mean?

We have heard it before, “A good pilot is always learning.” Well, I learned something this morning and I wanted to share it with you.
I was doing some preflight planning and I ran across this NOTAM:
Rwy 3/21 PAEW ADJ
I did a little research and learned that PAEW ADJ stands for:
Personnel and equipment on or adjacent [...]

What is FADEC?

I am fresh off a visit to Sun N’ Fun last week in Lakeland, Florida.  There were a lot of neat exhibits that I would love to tell you about but that would probably bore you to death.  When I go to this kind of airshow I love visiting the exhibitor halls.  I like seeing [...]

I learned about flying from that - my personal story

I have in a previous post discussed the popular column in Flying Magazine, “I learned about flying from that.” If you haven’t read that aforementioned post or the magazine, this column share stories of reader’s often harrowing accounts of things they have done while flying that  made them better pilots.  This is my story.
It happened [...]

Brand New Aviation Theme! What do you think?

Well, after much encouraging from some fellow bloggers, I have just completed and launched a brand new theme for Ask a CFI.com.  My goal was to make sure there was little doubt that I am a pilot first and a blogger second.  I think this theme screams that message pretty clear and loud (5 by [...]

Citation X draws digital art on FlightAware.com

As reported on AVweb this morning, a Citation X with some fuel and time to burn is starting up a whole new art form. Apparently, on March 7, 2008, N750CX, owned by Cessna Aircraft went on a high profile mission to create the company logo digitally on FlightAware.com. FlightAware is an online aircraft [...]