November 2011
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Aircraft
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Choice Aftermarket Stops for Turboprops
Put new life in your legacy turboprop or bring a high-performance piston into the jet age! Aftermarket specialists can upgrade your engines, retrofit your interior, install a glass panel and more.
by James Wynbrandt
American Aviation Inc. American Aviation at Coeur d'Alene Airport in Idaho offers modifications for Beechcraft King Airs, Piper Cheyennes and Cessna Conquests. ...more »
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Heavenly Dawn Patrol
How to make a great LSA even better? Fine-tune that cockpit!
Text And Photography By James Lawrence
The expansive gray concrete of Oshkosh’s runway 27 drops away. ...more »
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Hope Springs Eternal
A look at new single-pilot turbines
by John Hayes
Among pilots, hope isn't the only thing that springs eternal; it's the next plane. ...more »
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Our 10 Favorite Cirrus SR22S
Airplanes that stand out from the crowd and make us take notice
by Marc C. Lee
It’s fair to say that Cirrus changed general aviation in a way that hasn’t been seen since the halcyon days following World War II, when it seemed everybody built airplanes. ...more »
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Remos GXNXT
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The Game Changer
Why air-show star Rob Holland is expecting big things from the new MX Aircraft MXS-RH
Text And Photography By Scott Slocum
In the relatively short span of aviation history, invention—usually driven by the necessity of war and/or competition—has accelerated the growth of aircraft performance at an amazing pace. ...more »
Proficiency
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Risk Management
Do we know what we don’t know?
by Patty Wagstaff
Risk management is a solid concept, and an often-used term in aviation, medicine, firefighting, insurance and business. ...more »
Products
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November 2011 Readback
SportairUSA, a U.S. marketer and distributor of light-sport aircraft, announced price reductions in the entire Zlin Savage line of aircraft. ...more »
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Telex Ascend
A new slim-design, modular-headset for turbine pilots
by John Hayes
Among turbine pilots, Telex makes some of the most popular headsets in the world. ...more »
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Upgrading Your Instrument Panel
Panel-mount retrofit buyer’s guide
by John D. Ruley
The majority of airplanes in the general- aviation fleet were built before glass panels and digital displays became standard equipment. ...more »
Pilot Talk
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A Personal Journey
This thank-you was a long time coming
by Budd Davisson
The green fields, most looking as if you could land a 747 on them, stretched off into the distance, where they became low, gently rolling hills. ...more »
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From The Editor: Maverick Has the Ball
by Jessica Ambats
To commemorate the centennial of naval aviation, Plane & Pilot Publisher Mike McMann and I journeyed to Naval Air Station Lemoore. We spent our day with strike-fighter squadron VFA-122, at the controls of an F/A-18 simulator, on a hangar tour and shadowing an LSO during landing practice for carrier qualification. ...more »
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Fuel Imbalance
Wing heaviness may be a minor annoyance or a genuine threat to safety
by Peter Katz
Most pilots know what it feels like when an airplane is wing heavy because there's more fuel on one side than the other. ...more »
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Light-Sport Chronicles: Where Everybody Knows Your Name, Part II
Even after tragedy and Global Econ 101, fun flying wins out
by James Lawrence
Last month, you met Chris Dillis, who took the "friendly clubhouse" atmosphere common to European VLA (very light aircraft) flying and brought it to his own LSA startup in Denver. ...more »
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Safe Turnarounds
Is the impossible turn, in fact, possible?
By Michael Church, NAFI Master Flight Instructor
Over the years, I've made frequent mention of a controversial number: "safe turnaround altitude." ...more »
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The Thrill Of Solo
Do you remember your first solo flight?
by Bill Cox
I'd like to say I remember my first solo experience as if it happened only yesterday, but in truth, yesterday was a long time ago, and the memory isn't that vivid. ...more »
Travel
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100 Years Of Naval Aviation
Part I: The West Coast’s only strike-fighter wing, Naval Air Station Lemoore, trains F/A-18 pilots for the runway at sea
Text And Photography By Jessica Ambats
He did so in a 60 hp Curtiss Model D, which was constructed from spruce, bamboo and doped linen, and had a maximum speed of 43 knots. ...more »
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