April 2011
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Aircraft
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3XTrim Navigator LS600
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Backcountry Monster: The Legend Of Bigfoot
Expedition Aircraft introduces a tailwheel version of its bush-country workhorse
By Marc C. Lee, Photos By Jessica Ambats
Lake Huron rolls, Superior sings,” wrote Gordon Lightfoot in his wrenching ballad about the sinking of the ore carrier Edmund Fitzgerald in 1975, “in the rooms of her ice-water mansions.” ...more »
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Caring For Your Aircraft
Part I: Advice from the top engine shops
by Tim Kern
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. ...more »
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Found Expedition Bigfoot
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Rans Coyote II S-6LS
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Rans Coyote II S-6LS: The Proud And The Playful
Highly refined, quick and lively, light and strong: What’s not to like?
by James Lawrence
In American Indian lore, the coyote is a mythic totem, known variously as the prairie wolf, God’s dog and the trickster. ...more »
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Sebring 2011: Rays Of Hope Ahead?
The planes and people came...and light-sport keeps on truckin’
Text And Photography By James Lawrence
The year’s first major aviation show, Florida’s U.S. Sport Aviation Expo, went off swimmingly, if a mite frigidly in January, with good attendance, thanks to show organizer Bob Woods and his friendly volunteers. ...more »
Proficiency
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Immerse Yourself!
If you’re ready for intensive training, AFIT will get you an instrument rating in 10 days
by Marc C. Lee
No rating in aviation carries more mystique and prestige than the instrument rating. Sure, the ATP is a pinnacle of sorts, but for most pilots, the instrument rating is the big jump that separates professional pilots from their more casual brethren. ...more »
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Keeping It Real
Now in the fixed-wing market, FLYIT simulators are impressively realistic and take flight training to another level
Text And Photos By Marc C. Lee
I’m weaving my Bell Jet Ranger helicopter through the labyrinthine Hong Kong skyline. ...more »
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Paths To The Sky
So what’s it really like to go for your sport pilot ticket?
by James Lawrence
In the seven years since FAA created the sport pilot/light-sport aircraft (SP/LSA) category, even with economic woes, nearly 2,000 LSA now grace America’s skies. ...more »
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Perfect Your Approaches
Nonprecision suggests a casual approach to IFR procedures, but you’d best fly them with precision
By Bill Cox, Photos by Kim Furst
One of the most basic tenets of journalism is that we're all either the beneficiaries or the victims of our sources. ...more »
Products
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April 2011 Readback
Flight Design Fights Fires
A firefighting department based at 8,300 feet in the Ecuadorian Andes has acquired a Flight Design CTLS light-sport aircraft as its aerial support unit. ...more »
Pilot Talk
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Balancing Skill, Entertainment And Safety
When it comes to air show safety, the U.S. has it nailed
By Skip Stewart
I’m an air show pilot who’s known for making my performances look dangerous. ...more »
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Canada By Cub
A teenager’s 3,000 nm solo journey from the Yukon to Quebec
By Samuel Daigle
I’m the kind of guy who’s not scared to try new things. When I would fly my RC plane, I always thought how nice it would be to sit behind the controls and have freedom. ...more »
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Close Calls On The Runways
Having a clearance doesn’t always guarantee that you’re clear
by Peter Katz
Prominent on its list of Most Wanted Safety Improvements for 2011 is an assessment by the NTSB that the FAA needs to speed up improvements to procedures and equipment in order to help eliminate runway incursions. ...more »
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Cub Butt
Aviation’s posterior-measuring system
by Budd Davisson
The contradictions between the Cirrus and my normal ride couldn’t have been more extreme if I had been in the space shuttle. ...more »
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Flight Recorder For The Little Guy
A partial solution to the flight-recorder problem that doesn’t cost a fortune
by Bill Cox
I like to think pilots read accident reports out of a sense of self-preservation rather than ghoulish curiosity. ...more »
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From Mountains To Deserts
by Jessica Ambats
With massive tundra tires, a welded tubular steel fuselage frame and seating for five, the tailwheel version of Expedition Aircraft’s bushplane lives up to its formidable name: Bigfoot. ...more »
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Light-Sport Chronicles: Flight Of The Navigator
Small and feisty companies like 3Xtrim challenge conventional market wisdom
by James Lawrence
It’s the Babe Ruth of airplanes, the home-run standard against which we measure and judge all other airplanes whose company we’ll ever have the pleasure to keep. ...more »
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