Aircraft Ownership

Aircraft ownership is within your reach. From tips related to buying your first or a new plane to the biggest mistakes pilots make when purchasing insurance, our aircraft ownership articles shed light on all of the aspects of owning your own flying machine.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011 Caring For Your Aircraft Part II: All About Engine Monitors Odds are, the only engine instruments available in your first primary trainer were a tachometer, fuel level, oil temperature and possibly a cylinder head gauge (CHT).

Tuesday, February 22, 2011 Caring For Your Aircraft Part I: Advice from the top engine shops We all know about TBO (Time Between Overhauls or Time Before Overhaul), and we put money aside—mentally, if not in fact—for engine work with every flying hour, because major work is inevitable.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010 A New Lease On Flying Retrofit avionics can add a lot of capability for not a lot of money He hasn’t been out of GA for very long, but as far as the developments he’s missed, nothing comes close to the strides made in avionics over the last few years.

Tuesday, September 21, 2010 ElectriFly 2010 Electric flight is no longer an “if” but a “when” In 2007, a quintessential “garage inventor” named Randall Fishman showed up out of nowhere at Oshkosh AirVenture with an electric-powered ultralight—and quietly turned the aviation world on its ear.

Tuesday, August 24, 2010 Buying Your First Airplane Navigating the purchase maze Buying your first airplane is exciting and confusing, all at once.

Tuesday, August 3, 2010 Beyond Today’s Transponder Demystifying ADS-B Autonomous Dependant Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) has to be one of the most misunderstood technologies of the 21st century.

Tuesday, July 20, 2010 Airpark Living: Waking Up To Your Dream Taxiing up to the front door of your home is the stuff of dreams for most aviators If you’re serious about flying, at some point your dreams have wandered to airparks.

Tuesday, December 1, 2009 Buying & Selling Strategies For 2010 This may be the ideal time to get a new or used airplane Today’s GA marketplace is best described as difficult but not impossible.

Tuesday, November 3, 2009 LSA Ownership—Condo Style! Low down payment, affordable monthly installments, zero hassle: sound familiar? I love this concept of sharing ownership in an aircraft, new or used. Last month, I delved into David Kruger’s Aircraft Partnership Association (www.theapa.com), a type of online matchmaking service to bring like-minded pilots together for sharing the costs of aircraft ownership.

Wednesday, September 9, 2009 Getting Creative: Affordable Flying With the economy in trouble, pilots are finding innovative ways of keeping themselves in the sky Affordable flying is something of an oxymoron. World War II aviator Jimmy Doolittle is credited for uttering the phrase, “How can it be said that there is no money in aviation? That's where I left all of mine!"

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