Aircraft Hull Insurance Can Protect Your Plane When You’re Not There Our files at Avemco® show that 48% of all our claims happen before an airplane even leaves the ground. Although pilots are seldom...
RV6: The Airplane Building Experience My dad flew all over Europe during World War 2 as a navigator on a B-17 Flying Fortress. And he continued to fly after he came home. My mom also flew planes...
Exploring the logic and emotion of choosing the right plane. By their very nature, airplanes are an exercise in compromise. A fast airplane usually needs long runways. A good short-field aircraft is...
The Ins and Outs of How to Detail an Airplane Is your airplane looking a bit less than clean these days? Unhangared airplanes accumulate dust, soot, and dirt rather quickly. Even hangared airplanes...
Looking at Taxi Losses by Mike Kerwin, VP Analytics Avemco Insurance Company You’ve probably seen statistics which show that the most dangerous time for pilots isn’t when they ‘re students, but...
Discussing Aircraft Magneto Checks Pilots take comfort in knowing the aircraft they fly is airworthy. Careful preflight inspections are completed in order to satisfy ourselves that everything is in...
Learning to fly basic versus high-performance airplanes. The majority of those who learn to fly are trained in small 2 or 4 seat aircraft that are simple, traditional designs that don’t go very fast...
An Airplane Ignition System Video Series We hope you enjoy this video series on how the Airplane Ignition System works in a piston engine aircraft. This video series was made by Jim and Bryan in the...
Changing your own aircraft tires In this video series, we will walk you through the process of changing your own aircraft tires. Now to be clear, though I, Bryan Stewart, am a licensed pilot, I am not...