Four-seat airplanes have always been the most popular configuration in general aviation …
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$150 Per Pilot Charge for Using the iPad?
Last week, the FAA’s AeroNav division held a meeting in Washington D.C.âwhere the public and press were …
Pipistrel Virus
Pipistrel Virus Price as flown ($/⬠rate=$1.37/1): $128,000 Price range ($/⬠rate=$1.42/1): $105,000 (basic …
Fire In Front
According to a search of NTSB data, in 2010, there were only four general aviation fixed-wing accidents investigated that …
Light-Sport Chronicles: Snowmobile Engine…NOT!
Naw, it’s got a snowmobile engine, I’m not flying one of those!” Odds are, if you’ve hung …
Instructing The Instructor
When you’re a flight instructor, you’re a combination shrink, drill sergeant, mother confessor and cheerleader; and, if you …
The Dangers Of Noise Fatigue
I was tired. No, beyond tired. I was fairly well-whipped. There are no legal limits imposed on flight hours …
Bahamas 101: Recipe For Paradise
We’re skimming low over the Atlantic Ocean, some 80 miles southeast of Fort Lauderdale. Below us is a giant …
Pipistrel Virus: Triple Your Pleasure
Maybe she dressed kinda funny. Maybe he kept to himself. She was a little eccentric, joined after-school clubs and …
2012 Piper Meridian
2012 Piper Meridian Engine make/model P&W PT6A-42A Horsepower on takeoff 500 TBO (hrs.) 3600 Fuel type Jet …
Coast-To-Coast Javelin
Pressurization is something like power windows. Once you’ve lived with it for a while, you wonder how you ever …