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September 2010


Aircraft

  • Airpark Living: Waking Up To Your Dream Taxiing up to the front door of your home is the stuff of dreams for most aviators by Marc C. Lee If you’re serious about flying, at some point your dreams have wandered to airparks. ...more »
  • Beyond Today’s Transponder Demystifying ADS-B by John D. Ruley Autonomous Dependant Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B) has to be one of the most misunderstood technologies of the 21st century. ...more »
  • Capetown Racing Light-sport floatplane that's a joy to fly Given this 50:1 advantage, floatplanes or seaplanes make a lot of sense; there are many places you can land, plus you can reach interesting locations you never considered in a land plane. ...more »
  • Cirrus SR22T ...more »
  • Cirrus SR22T: Turbo Without the STC Cirrus Design now offers a turbocharged model with a factory Continental Has it really been a full decade since Alan and Dale Klapmeier introduced the first version of the airplane that would eventually conquer the general aviation world? ...more »
  • FPNA Capetown ...more »

Proficiency

  • Lessons Learned Part 1 Alaska vs. The Outside My first flight lessons might have been different than yours, but as with all pilots, those early experiences are still tattooed in my mind. ...more »

Products

  • Anywhere Map Quadra A trendsetter in portable navigators by Marc C. Lee At first glance there’s not much to the new Anywhere Map Quadra, but therein lies its considerable charm. ...more »
  • Jeppesen VFR+GPS Charts An alternative to sectional charts by John D. Ruley Since 1930, the standard paper navigation chart for VFR pilots has been the venerable sectional, originally produced by the Coast and Geodetic Survey, whose aviation department has since become the FAA’s National Aeronautical Chart Office (NACO). NACO sectional charts are widely available, and provide key data on terrain, airspace, navigational aids, etc. We all learn to use them in primary flight training. ...more »
  • September 2010 Readback More Pounds For Terrafugia by The Editors Terrafugia has received an exemption from the FAA to grant the Transition LSA an additional 110 pounds, allowing for a maximum takeoff weight of 1,430 pounds. ...more »

Pilot Talk

  • 20 New iPad Apps! Turn your iPad into the ultimate cockpit resource The iPad is slick, dazzling and infinitely upgradeable, with over 100,000 applications in Apple’s App Store. ...more »
  • Canyonlands By Cherokee Learning the Utah backcountry In 2007 I had been going to Moab, Utah, for four years—hiking, running and sightseeing—and I was 20 years a pilot with my own Cherokee 140. ...more »
  • From The Editor: The Athlete Pilot by Jessica Ambats “Athlete” isn’t a word that’s often equated with pilots, but Red Bull Air Race pilots are athletes in every way. ...more »
  • Great Places Not To Have An Accident Don’t spend so much time looking at scenery that you neglect to look at flight necessities by Peter Katz One of the truly wondrous things about general aviation is the ease with which you can reach vacation sites that would be a hassle via road, ferry or airline transportation. ...more »
  • Light-Sport Chronicles: Staying The Course Too many songbirds, not enough bird seed–what to do? by James Lawrence Recently, a gentleman e-mailed me who had invested a ways back in an LSA company, not because he expected to become the next Piper, Flight Design, Rans or Legend Cub, but because, in his own words, "I just love airplanes." A lifelong financial professional, he wasn’t after a fortune—except maybe the proverbial small one from a big one. He just loved airplanes. ...more »
  • Really Low On Fuel A dark and stormy night in Alaska Early in September of 1977, a fellow Alaska registered guide asked me to fly some avgas to a hunting camp he operated on the west side of the Alaska Range. ...more »
  • Redline! Vne doesn’t necessarily mean what you think it means by Bill Cox I was flying home to California from Florida in my Mooney Executive a few years ago following what amounted to a medium makeover of the airplane’s aerodynamic drag signature. ...more »
  • The Good Old Boys Club...NOT! Sometimes becoming one of the guys is easier than it looks by Budd Davisson Do you remember when life was slow enough that we used to sit around in front of the hangar, the sun making us feel like reptiles soaking up the warmth, before bundling ourselves into our respective flying machines to go test fate? ...more »

Which of the following military aircraft do you think is the sexiest?

P-51D Mustang
B-2
SR-71 Blackbird
F-16
F-22

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