May/June 2009
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Aircraft
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2008 Cessna Grand Caravan 208B
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2009 Lancair Evolution
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Caravan for the Jet Set
Cessna’s Caravan goes plush, with all the accoutrements of a jet (except the speed)
Ride in the back of Brian Linehan’s new Grand Caravan, and you’d hardly know you were traveling in a $2 million single-engine turboprop rather than in a $6 to $8 million corporate twin jet.
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Lancair Evolution: Revolutionary Homebuilt
Lancair reaches for new horizons in four-place homebuilts with the Evolution propjet
When I flew my first homebuilt in 1973, a VariViggen with designer Burt Rutan in the second seat, the whole point of homebuilt airplanes was innovation with economy.
Pilot Talk
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They’re Here, Now What?
 Eclipse. Cessna. Embraer. Three different companies with three different certified very light jets (VLJs). The latter, with its newly certified Phenom 100, currently holds the crown as the biggest, fastest and most expensive of the certified VLJs to date. Cessna’s Mustang holds the distinguished position of the tried and tested “sure thing” built by a company that understands owner-pilots better than anyone.
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Products
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Screen Gem
Avidyne’s new Entegra makes glass perfectly clear
by James Wynbrandt
 A flight down Florida’s east coast is replete with tropical playground panoramas, but the million-dollar view isn’t enough at the moment to pry my eyes from the dual IFDs (Integrated Flight Displays) of Avidyne’s new Entegra Release 9, installed in the company’s Cirrus SR22. |
Proficiency
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From Cirrus To Citation
JetAviva puts its clients into the left seat of light jets
Through my Lightspeed Zulu headset, I hear a confident voice: “Denver Center, Citation One Three Zulu Mike, vacating flight level 390 for 240, smooth ride.”
Travel
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Fly The Bahamas
What you’ll need to know as a first-timer to the out islands
 For many pilots, it’s a rite of passage; for others, it’s their daily work. Some are fearful at the thought of so much water below, and their first flight over an ocean becomes an adrenaline-fueled leap of faith.
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The Country Pilot
Joining the farm team for tailwheel training
 He calls himself the “Country Pilot,” and with his herd of taildraggers and 3,000-foot farm field, he cultivates the art, science and joy of simple stick and rudder flying. He’s even apt to begin sentences with, “I’m just a country pilot…,” when relating how he prefers good weather when flying his PA20 Pacer on the 1,000-mile journey to Sun ’n Fun, or why the Pitts S-2B he bought himself as a retirement present in 2002 has all the performance he’ll ever need for aerobatics.
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