AOPA Live This Week

AOPA Live This Week - April 4, 2013

Line up and wait; more than customary delays at FXE. Rod Machado has a tip to keep you from losing an arm or a leg. The L-39 was one thing, but a MiG 15 is something else again. And we test fly the amphibious Searey.

AOPA Live This Week - March 28, 2013

GA in the crosshairs. From customs inspections to air traffic control, the administration makes life miserable for general aviation pilots. A 172 pilot tries her stick skills at jet fighter school. If you need to find a path to a runway NOW, we've got an app for you.

AOPA Live This Week - March 21, 2013

ABC News unfairly and inaccurately attacks GA safety. We set the record straight. Harrison Ford speaks up for GA before Congress. A milestone for the Eclipse 550. March madness strikes AOPA. And Fly Well - a new series on your health and piloting.

AOPA Live This Week - March 14, 2013

Up close look at sequestration effects at one airport -- Santa Fe Municipal in New Mexico. Training the best for the worst. An exclusive video look inside the Coast Guard's elite Advanced Helicopter Rescue School at Astoria, Oregon. A look at the next generation -- the 5th to be exact -- of the Cirrus SR22T. And Rod Machado has a quick lesson on how to reawaken your feet.

AOPA Live This Week - March 7, 2013

The latest news from Heli-Expo in Las Vegas. GA gets angry about the sequester. The ins and outs of spins, and your sweepstakes Debonair gets an avionics 'sweet.'

AOPA Live This Week - February 28, 2013

Hear from Craig Fuller about his decision to step down from AOPA. Also, what does sequestration mean to you? Plus, we fly with TOP GUN.

AOPA Live This Week - February 21, 2013

It's taken 9 months and a Chapter 11, but the Beechcraft Corporation is out of bankruptcy court and looking to the future. The Seneca V gets a G-1000 and rebuilding an original Curtiss hangar.

AOPA Live This Week - February 14, 2013

The figures are flat, but is GA flat-lined? We digest the numbers from the GAMA State of the Industry. Plus, we fly into Glacier National Park.

AOPA Live This Week - February 7, 2013

The pilot who ditched in the Hudson tells her story. Exclusive news on the turbine-powered back-country Sherpa. Washington takes a stab at GA ... again. High praise for the AOPA Air Safety Institute from the NTSB.

AOPA Live This Week - January 31, 2013

New series, 'License to Learn,' with Rod Machado. Go flying with the youngest precision team. David Clark is more than headsets.

AOPA Live This Week - January 24, 2013

We show you the Light Sport Expo in Sebring, Florida. Check out the flying car! Also, getting a tailwheel endorsement. Plus we have Patty Wagstaff performing at night.

AOPA Live This Week - January 17, 2013

Firestorm over the arrest of 70 year old glider pilot for "violating" non-existent "no-fly" zone. We test fly the new Tecnam P92 Tail Dragger. Seeing the dark with the MaxViz 600 infrared vision system for Cessnas. Talking to the creators of the Solar Impulse aircraft. And remembering airshow pilot Fred Cabanas.

AOPA Live This Week - January 10, 2013

Flying a glider is a "breach of peace?" The incredible story of a pilot arrested and jailed for flying through a non-existent "no-fly" zone. Budget woes haven't ended for the FAA. A luxury LSA straight from the designer's heart. And an exclusive interview with actor/pilot James Lipton, host of "Inside the Actors' Studio."

AOPA Live This Week - Directors' Cut 2012

Its the best of AOPA Live This Week from 2012. Join producers Warren Morningstar and Paul Harrop as they give you the inside scoop on the show.

AOPA Live This Week - December 13, 2012 --

Flight Designs new CTLSi sports a fuel-injected Rotax, which means the engine is happy on everything from 100LL to mo-gas with ethanol. AOPA Live’s Jim Moore is among the first to test fly it. What’s the most challenging airport in American? AOPA members vote, and AOPA Pilot Senior Editor tries his hand at landing there. AOPA’s top safety guy Bruce Landsberg talks about dealing with ice on general aviation aircraft.Putting the Cessna Skycatcher to the test. Is it a worthy successor to the 152 in a flight school?

AOPA Live This Week - December 6, 2012

Fly along with the Coast Guard's HITRON group as they train to stop go fast boats and drug smugglers. You might not know about a MOA if you use a sectional. Falling off the fiscal cliff and the impact on general aviation. An update on the search for a new avgas.

AOPA Live This Week - November 29, 2012

GA aircraft that will be twice as safe and cost half as much. Lofty goals for rewriting FAA's aircraft certification requirements going on right now. First flight for the Embraer Legacy 500, and what it's like to fly its fly-by-wire stick. The other shoe drops for the FAA boss. 'Goose' finally replaces the good looking guy in the pilot's seat. An exclusive interview with new pilot Anthony Edwards.

AOPA Live This Week - November 22, 2012

Fly low and slow in the Everglades, learn what not to eat when you fly and meet AOPA's newest strategic partner.

AOPA Live This Week - November 8, 2012

What impact does the election results have on general aviation? AOPA's political experts have the answers. Hurricane Sandy batters the Northeast; general aviation comes to the rescue. More from the NBAA convention in Orlando. Beautiful beaches, great food, wonderful airport. It could be yours. And flight simulation could help you get your pilot's license faster and more easily.

AOPA Live This Week - November 1, 2012

Special edition from the NBAA convention and trade show. HawkerBeechcraft to become Beechcraft Corporation, and stop producing jets but adding a turboprop single to the line. Cessna upgrades the Sovereign, Dassault the Falcon 2000, and Embraer introduces the 450. An exclusive interview with the HondaJet designer. Honeywell forecasts business jet sales. Matalin and Carville forecast the elections.

AOPA Live This Week - October 25, 2012

A major shakeup at EAA - we have an exclusive interview with the new Chairman. Plus, the deal to sell Hawker Beechcraft to a Chinese company is bust, Mike Melvill stops by and we preview NBAA 2012.

AOPA Live This Week - October 18, 2012

AOPA's new sweepstakes airplane, a Debonair! Two cool iPad apps from the Aviation Summit in Palm Springs. A cross-country flight in a brace of open-cockpit WACOs.

AOPA Live This Week - October 18, 2012

AOPA's new sweepstakes airplane, a Debonair! Two cool iPad apps from the Aviation Summit in Palm Springs. A cross-country flight in a brace of open-cockpit WACOs.

AOPA Live This Week - October 13, 2012

Special edition from the AOPA Aviation Summit in Palm Springs

AOPA Live This Week - October 12, 2012

Special edition from the AOPA Aviation Summit in Palm Springs.

AOPA Live This Week - October 11, 2012

Special edition from the AOPA Aviation Summit in Palm Springs.

AOPA Live This Week - October 4, 2012

We talk to a pilot who crashed a 727 - on purpose! Plus, a major new program from AOPA, a quick and easy mod to lower stall speed, and saying farewell to the Sweepstakes Husky. That and a look at next week's AOPA Aviation Summit.

AOPA Live This Week - September 27, 2012

This week we fly along at the Reno Air Races, tell you how to get a taildragger endorsement, and debate pattern entry at non-towered fields. Is the 45 always right? See what AOPA Pilot editors think. Plus, a look ahead to AOPA Aviation Summit in Palm Springs, and who couldn't use another pair of sunglasses.

AOPA Live This Week - September 20, 2012

FAA budget still in jeopardy, a closer look at the new Van's RV-14, new updates to the Phenom 100, and Palm Springs has a lot to offer the non-pilots at AOPA Summit.

AOPA Live This Week - September 13, 2012

A seaplane rescue off the California coast, landing after losing a main wheel, a preview of AOPA Summit in Palm Springs, we fly the Bombardier Global 6000, and a place in the world where they love general aviation.

AOPA Live This Week - September 6, 2012

AOPA Live This Week from the Democratic National Convention. President Obama answers our questions about user fees and funding NextGen, while congressional Democrats just say ‘no’ to anything but the gas tax. An epic cross country in a J-3 Cub. Boy, are their butts sore. And a first look at the Garmin G5000 in an experimental LearJet.

AOPA Live This Week - August 30, 2012

This week we fly the new Velocity V-Twin, see what AOPA is doing to represent General Aviation at the Republican National Convention in Tampa and salute Neil Armstrong.

AOPA Live This Week - August 23, 2012

AOPA Live exclusive -- first video of flying the new turbo-diesel Cessna 182 JT-A. Politics and TFRs have to mix. An aviation high school where Eclipse used to stand, and how a PC-12 makes a big difference in a little boy's life. This and lots more on AOPALive This Week--from Wichita.

AOPA Live This Week August 16, 2012

Fly high in the French Alps, learn what sequestration means to pilots and find out lessons learned from a crash documented in a viral video.

AOPA Live This Week - August 9, 2012

Cirrus and Icon partner to build the A5 amphib LSA, what we can learn from the French about general aviation, one airport dies but another survives and prospers after the tornado, and building young interests in aviation by building an airplane.

AOPA Live This Week - August 2, 2012

A quick review of AirVenture 2012 at Oshkosh, AOPA launches AV8RS to bring the kids to aviation, a general aviation safari in Botswana, and will they call the new ship the Goodyear Zeppelin?

AOPA Live This Week - July 28, 2012, AirVenture special

Final report from AirVenture 2012. A look at the volunteers on Flight Line ops, a chat with EAA President Rod Hightower, a roundup of ADS-B boxes, the Lisa Akoya amphib, and much more from Oshkosh.

AOPA Live This Week - July 27, 2012, AirVenture special

Camping under the wing at AirVenture, FAA Administrator talks about user fees, judging aircraft, and a Falco from down under.

AOPA Live This Week - July 26, 2012, AirVenture Special

A first look at the jet-fueled Cessna 182 NXT, celebrating 75 years of a little yellow airplane, crossing the Atlantic on battery power alone, only three women in the U.S. can claim this aviation achievement, and using aviation to improve educational achievement. All this and more from AirVenture .

AOPA Live This Week - July 23, 2012, AirVenture preview

On the opening day of AirVenuture 2012, a preview of what to expect, some hints of major news from Cessna, and a look at what it takes to put the show together.

AOPA Live This Week - July 19, 2012

Do the Chinese have designs on our aviation industry? An expert analysis. At the Flying Circus, flying bad means you're really good. We fly along with the FAA flight check crews. A checkout in the AOPA Sweepstakes Husky.

AOPA Live This Week - July 12, 2012

A possible buyer for Hawker Beechcraft, insight and analysis from the insiders. Fly along in WWII-era biplanes as some top notch pilots do daring feats in open-air antiques. Tom Haines gets up close and personal with lions and leopards in Africa. See how GA takes you places that other means of transportation can’t.

AOPA Live This Week - July 4, 2012

Exclusive interview with Sen. Inhofe on the Pilots' Bill of Rights just passed by the Senate,flying fighter aircraft from World War I, what it's like to be part of the Air Force's Thunderbirds team, the Cessna Corvallis in flight, a flying African safari, and a special Independence Day message from AOPA President Craig Fuller.

AOPA Live This Week - June 28, 2012

Tom Haines flys the Cessna Corvallis TTx, major milestone towards an unleaded aviation fuel, a Sentimental Journey to Lock Haven, PA, and more!

AOPA Live This Week June 21, 2012

The NTSB tackles general aviation safety, flying the turbine powered Lancair Evolution, a small community finds economic value in its airport, a flight over southern Africa and more!

AOPA Live This Week June 14, 2012

'Driver's license' medical is one step closer, but pilots have to act now! The perils of thunderstorm encounters in aircraft and how to give pilot reports to provide forecasters with more data about severe weather. We fly the 1902 Wright glider. Find out what’s changed in the private and commercial pilot airplane practical test standards. And the finale of the River Run as the AirCam finally gets home.

AOPA Live This Week - June 7, 2012

A general aviation mission to do good in Mexico turns tragically bad, a major milestone for the Eclipse 550, a new aircraft from Maule, and the Sli ng LSA is approved, and a look at upset training at the Sean D. Tucker Tutima Academy.

AOPA Live This Week - May 31, 2012

Dancing with Sean D. Tucker, an unusual response to a midair collision, flying an Aircam up the lazy river, finding corrosion in your aircraft, and an airplane with 'Prius power.'

AOPA Live This Week - May 24, 2012

Exclusive interview with former FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt, flying the RV1, electric airplanes, and astronauts Gene Cernan and Jim Lovell on the US space program, the Met Life blimp, an SBD Dauntless & more!

AOPA Live This Week - May 17, 2012

Fly the breezy, Diamond's new twins, a storied C-47, an aviation museum where you'd least expect it, and the latest GA news.

AOPA Live This Week - May 10, 2012

Join host Tom Haines for a comprehensive look at this week in general aviation.

AOPA Live at Sun 'n Fun 2012 - Final report

Wrap up report from Sun 'n Fun 2012, including a B-29 flight with a WASP that flew the Super Fortress during the war, new inititatives from AOPA to improve GA, and an autopilot that won't let you stall.

AOPA Live at Sun n' Fun

Special report on some of the events, new product releases, and flying activities from the first two days of Sun n' Fun 2012.