March 2012
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Aircraft
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A Skyhawk For Everyone
Cessna’s hit airplane keeps getting better with age
by Marc C. Lee
All really great flying adventures begin at dawn," wrote Stephen Coonts in his cross-country odyssey Cannibal Queen, and those words were all I was thinking about as I drove to the airport with the sun still hiding and the new day before me. ...more »
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Cessna Skyhawk
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Evektor Harmony
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Sweet Harmonizin’
Raising the bar on a history of quality, performance, handling and comfort
Text And Photography By James Lawrence
One of the very first LSA I flew was the Evektor SportStar, an all-metal, low-wing monoplane with a cute bubbly profile and a stable, confidence-inspiring, long-distance-comfortable, easy-to-fly flight personality. ...more »
Proficiency
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Airline Transport Professionals
Preparing pilots for professional airline careers since 1984
by Dale Smith
As it prepares to celebrate its 28th anniversary, ATP has grown into one of the largest and most highly respected professional flight-training academies in the world. ...more »
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Do Something Magical: Learn To Fly
Innovation continues to change flight training, but it’s still about the fun
by Marc C. Lee
I'm still learning to fly. Even three decades after earning my private pilot certificate at 17, I'm still a student pilot, and I'm okay with it. ...more »
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Running With The Big Dogs: A Jet Experience
“Flying Like The Pros” shows GA pilots big-cockpit methods and techniques
Text And Photography By Marc C. Lee
Don't be in a rush to screw things up!" It's one of many little sayings and memory joggers that 2010 National CFI Of The Year Jeffrey Robert Moss (everyone calls him "MossY") teaches students in his Flying Like The Pros (FLTP) system. ...more »
Products
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March 2012 Readback
The Khaki Flight Timer, Hamilton's new pilot watch designed with Swiss helicopter rescue and transport service Air Zermatt, was officially launched in the ski village of Zermatt, Switzerland, in December 2011. ...more »
Pilot Talk
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Autopilots Equal Safety
It may seem counterintuitive for macho pilots, but an autopilot will nearly always do a better job than you will
by Bill Cox
One of the most common questions I get about flying the oceans is, "How do you stay awake on a 10- to 15-hour leg?" My standard answer is, "Consider the alternative." ...more »
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From The Editor: What’s In A Name?
by Jessica Ambats
I first heard about Amelia Earhart three years ago on Facebook. The new Amelia Earhart, that is. ...more »
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Include, Don’t Exclude
A look at some of the deterrents to flying and what can be done to reverse them
by Patty Wagstaff
We all love stories of how people are seduced by aviation, but it's just as interesting to know what keeps them out. ...more »
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Light-Sport Chronicles: Heart Like A Wing
In celebration of CFIs everywhere, and one in particular
by James Lawrence
It's that time of year! Spring be sprung, or nearly so; if a blanket of frosty white lurks beyond your window, have faith—the end is near. ...more »
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May I See Your Driver’s License?
Data proving you don’t need an FAA medical certificate to be safe comes as no surprise to many
by Peter Katz
Others believe the resources the FAA devotes to medical certification could be put to better use elsewhere. ...more »
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Unplanned Obsolescence
Antiquity is strictly a point of view
by Budd Davisson
Every so often, something will happen that reaches out and raps you in the noggin, and makes you realize how fast time is ripping past. And how quickly something that's familiar and simply secondhand to you becomes exotic and antique to a new generation. ...more »
Travel
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Amelia Earhart: A Modern Adventure
Seventy-five years on, a modern-day Earhart retraces the footsteps of a legend
by Marc C. Lee
This contemporary Earhart is re-creating one of the legendary aviatrix's flights: the leg from Oakland, Calif., to Miami, Fla., where she announced her ill-fated, round-the-world attempt in 1937. ...more »
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Live With Your Airplane
An overview of residential airparks and fly-in communities
by James Wynbrandt
There's nothing like being able to walk out your back door to your hangar and into your airplane," says Spruce Creek, Fla., resident Jack Hirn, summing up the number-one reason that the residential airpark lifestyle captivates pilots of every stripe. ...more »
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Trans-Africa Adventure
Part II: From Cape Town to London in a Cessna 206
By Helmut Polzer
Having travelled south down the east coast of Africa, our return route would be north up the west coast and center on a 4,900-mile journey to Ibiza, Spain. ...more »
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Visiting America Airport By Airport
A journey through the Midwest in a Pitts Special
By Michael Church
My flight student Matt Rickman and I departed Southern California for Illinois at the end of June, just as summer thunderstorms began to pummel the Midwest. ...more »
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