Pilot Stories
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Tuesday, February 24, 2009 Profiles In Vision: Tom Peghiny
The #1 LSA distributor in America climbs for the blue on how to survive “The Econogeddon”
 I like employing people and making things,” Tom Peghiny, president and founder of Flight Design USA, told me on a snowy winter day last January. |
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Icing Awareness
The quantity and quality of information have improved, but icing is ever a deadly foe
 Ten years ago, the National Aviation Weather Program Council met in Washington, D.C., to develop ideas that could be turned into practical steps toward reducing the number of weather-related aircraft accidents. Regarding in-flight icing, the group—which included FAA, Department of Defense, NASA, Department of Commerce, Department of Agriculture and NTSB representatives—concluded that better observation systems were needed for detecting icing, and weather forecasts should present icing hazards in clear, easily understood formats.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 From The Editor: From Dream To Reality
We all started at the same place: the beginning.
 There was a time when aviation seemed to be a distant world, out of my reach. I didn’t know any pilots, and as far as I knew, you had to be in the military or have millions of dollars to become one. While my classmates forged ahead on paths to become doctors and lawyers, I stumbled around, sneaking peeks at airplanes passing overhead and memorizing the aviation alphabet. But, one day, everything changed.
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Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Pleasure, Pain & Southern Hospitality
An unforgettable weekend
 Skylane 250CW, cleared to land, runway two seven.” Those words marked the start of my anniversary weekend in historic Savannah, Ga. The VFR flight to Savannah from Lawrenceville, Ga., on the morning of August 1, 2008, was smooth and uneventful, as was my first-time arrival into Savannah International Airport. Plane parked and rental car obtained, my wife and I headed off to the resort. |
Tuesday, February 10, 2009 Gaining Your Pilot’s License
An opportunity to see the world from a different perspective
 Leonardo da Vinci once said, “For once you have tasted flight, you will walk the earth with your eyes turned skywards, for there you have been and there you will long to return.” There are more than 600,000 registered pilots in the United States, and each of them can relate to this quote. |
Tuesday, January 27, 2009 Always The Weather
Fall, not winter, is the tough time in some parts of the world
 If there’s one absolute truth about flying the North Atlantic in normally aspirated piston aircraft, it’s ice. Those pilots who’ve been flying the ocean at low level for a few years recognize airframe icing as perhaps the most dangerous threat.
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 Retreads & Me
We’re wearing out more than just our airplanes
 I’m not sure what it means, but this morning I glanced down at the Tail-Dragger Dragger dolly that I use to push/pull my bird from its nest, and I realized that the tires are wearing out. Bald, as it were. I was a little surprised and asked myself, “Exactly how much mileage should we expect from the accessories we surround ourselves with while flying?”
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Tuesday, January 27, 2009 Light-Sport Chronicles: Questions! So Many Questions!
The sport pilot rule is clear and easy to understand...except when it isn’t. Let’s dig a little deeper.
 The sport pilot rule under which LSA pilots fly was intended to cover a broad array of recreational vehicles and conditions, gently wrapped within a beneficent, safety-minded envelope of permissions and restrictions.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008 Parachute Jump Operations
The risks go beyond just jumping out of an airplane
 This past September, the NTSB completed a special investigation on accidents involving aircraft used in parachute jumping.
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Tuesday, December 16, 2008 From The Editor: Milestones & New Beginnings
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