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Friday, May 1, 2009 Plane & Pilot In A Pilot's Story
Filmed in hangars and homes, at restaurants and on ramps, A Pilot's Story is an upcoming documentary from Wilco Films that tells the story of flight in the words of pilots themselves. |
Tuesday, April 21, 2009 CSI Insurance: Excogitations On LSA Crashes, Part Deux
A discussion about LSA insurance rates
 Last month, Mike Adams, vice president of underwriting for Avemco Insurance (www.avemco.com), shared fascinating insights drawn from Avemco’s LSA claims data. Avemco’s conclusion: Incomplete dealer transition training for new S-LSA owners was the biggest contributor to accident claims. Avemco responded by requiring new owners to complete five hours dual and a flight review sign-off from a dealer rep to qualify for solo coverage.
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Tuesday, April 21, 2009 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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Tuesday, April 7, 2009 From The Editor: Low & Slow
 You’d normally find her looping and rolling at 250 mph in front of thousands of spectators at the industry’s biggest air shows, but this month, aerobatic champ Patty Wagstaff takes us on a different kind of adventure, low and slow above elephants, rhinos and cheetahs in the remote wilderness of Kenya. |
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Tuesday, April 7, 2009 Protecting Kenya’s National Parks
Training the Kenya Wildlife Service Airwing
 I often wear a little leather choker with two bronze elephant tusks. I picked it up a few years ago in a Nairobi gallery called Matt Bronze, and it reminds me of the wild things that still live in Kenya. |
Tuesday, March 10, 2009 From the Editor: A Diamond For A Pilot’s Pilot
 There were more than a few cheers at this year’s U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Fla., which drew a record crowd of up to 11,500 attendees and held its own in spite of the current economic woes. With more than 165 exhibitors and sales of at least 20 airplanes, it’s evident that the LSA industry has come a long way since the sport pilot rule was created four years ago.
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009 Personal Aviation At A Crossroads
Looking back and moving forward
 Five years ago, the first special light-sport aircraft (S-LSA) received its airworthiness certificate, opening up a new chapter in the regulation of simple personal flight. More than 1,000 of these factory-built aircraft and more than 8,000 former ultralights (experimental light-sport aircraft, E-LSA) are now flying under the sport pilot and LSA category. |
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 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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