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Article: Easy Ownership: The Great LSA

Herewith, the Essential Question: What's great about owning and flying an LSA?

Also labeled: Aircraft, Aircraft Bargains, Aircraft Ownership, Aircraft Upgrades, Aviation News, Best Buys, Budget Flying, Buying A Plane, Features, Fractional Ownership, LSAs, New Aircraft, New Airplanes, Ownership, Pilot Supplies, Shared Ownership

Article: 20 Great Aviation Apps

The iPad scene shifts faster than coastal weather, with new products and amazing updates from old friends.

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Article: Garmin Introduces The Touch-Screen 650 And 750

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Article: Great New Products!

In the middle of the best of Spring Break air show times it became, for a day, the very worst of times.

Also labeled: Air Shows, Aviation News, Best Buys, Gadgets, Gear, Gifts, New Products, Ownership, Pilot Gear, Pilot Supplies, Product Previews, Shows and Fly-Ins

Article: The Best Of Books And Training Kits

Once upon a time in aviation, studying for the written and practical exams was anything but easy or convenient. Most likely, you'd sign up for ground school ...

Also labeled: Best Buys, Books and DVDs, Features, Gifts, New Products, Pilot Guide, Pilot Resources, Pilot Supplies

Article: Caring For Your Aircraft

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.

Also labeled: Aircraft, Aircraft Ownership, Aviation Careers, Aviation Resources, Pilot Guide, Pilot Resources, Staying Current

Article: Buy To Fly

Hello, can I schedule a lesson for Friday afternoon? No? You don’t have an airplane available?

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Article: Sporty’s 50 Years On The Pulse Of GA

I’m meandering along a quiet perimeter road at Clermont County Airport near Batavia, Ohio, on a frigid morning.

Also labeled: Aircraft, Aircraft Ownership, Aviation Careers, Aviation Resources, Best Buys, Pilot Guide, Pilot Resources, Staying Current

Article: The Flight Bag Is A Pilot's Best Friend

Ah, the flight bag. What, in the air-mail days, was a lowly canvas sack into which was stuffed a bedraggled map, a candy bar and a dime for a phone call if the weather got bad has become a cockpit staple.

Also labeled: Features, Gadgets, Gear, Pilot Gear, Pilot Resources, Pilot Supplies

Article: Headsets: The Critical Component

On a recent cross-country on a busy day in the skies above California, I got a firsthand look into the importance of a good headset, and how a headset that’s good in one airplane might be completely wrong in another.

Also labeled: Cockpit Gadgets, Features, Gadgets, Gear, Headsets, Pilot Gear, Pilot Resources, Pilot Supplies

Article: Aviation Handhelds

Not long ago, handheld devices for in-cockpit use broke down into neat categories: GPS moving-map units kept pilots from getting lost.

Also labeled: Cockpit Gadgets, Features, Gadgets, Gear, Handheld Avionics, Handheld Gadgets, Pilot Gear, Pilot Resources, Pilot Supplies

Article: Choose Your Own Adventure

So, you just hit the lottery for a half-million bucks (after tax). This sounds like a big deal, except that it’s redundant because your spouse hit it last week for 10 million.

Also labeled: Adventure Aircraft, Adventure Flying, Aircraft, Aircraft Ownership, Aviation Resources, Best Buys, Buying A Plane, Decision Making, Features, New Aircraft, Pilot Guide, Pilot Resources, Staying Current

Article: Choosing A Six-Seater

If it’s really true that buyers of four-seat airplanes often buy two seats more than they need, the same may not be true of purchasers in the six-place class. ...

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Article: Four-Seater Buyer's Guide

Four-seat airplanes have always been the most popular configuration in general aviation.

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Article: A New Lease On Flying

He hasn’t been out of GA for very long, but as far as the developments he’s missed, nothing comes close to the strides made in avionics over the last few years.

Also labeled: Aircraft Ownership, Aircraft Upgrades, Avionics, Features, Gadgets, Learning Center, New Products, Pilot Supplies

Article: 11 Best New Products

The heart and soul of civilization, if you buy the exhaustively researched conclusions in Matt Ridley’s top-selling book The Rational Optimist, has been trade between the world’s people, from the very beginnings of humankind’s first yearning to...

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Article: Buying Your First Airplane

Buying your first airplane is exciting and confusing, all at once.

Also labeled: Aviation Resources, Best Buys, Buying A Plane, Features, Finance, Fractional Ownership, Learning Center, Ownership

Article: 20 New iPad Apps!

The iPad is slick, dazzling and infinitely upgradeable, with over 100,000 applications in Apple’s App Store.

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Article: Airpark Living: Waking Up To Your Dream

If you’re serious about flying, at some point your dreams have wandered to airparks.

Also labeled: Aviation Resources, Best Buys, Buying A Plane, Decision Making, Features, Journeys, Learning Center, Ownership, People and Places, Travel

Article: Aspen Glow

The last of the AeroShell Aerobatic Team T-6s lets out a sonorous belch as its propeller spins to a stop, and I walk up to its hefty wing to meet Gene McNeely, slot pilot for the team.

Also labeled: Avionics, Best Buys, Gadgets, Gear, Glass Cockpits, Learning Center, New Products, Pilot Supplies

Article: Best LSA

The light-sport aircraft industry hangs in there, although sales numbers, as with general aviation, still struggle to gain safe altitude in the stormy economic skies ...

Also labeled: Aircraft Bargains, Aircraft Ownership, Best Buys, Buying A Plane, Decision Making, Features, Finance, Learning Center

Article: 10 Top Products

Year in, year out, up economy or down economy, enterprising aviation entrepreneurs always find new and exciting ways to get our juices flowing and our checking accounts draining.

Also labeled: Air Races, Air Shows, Best Buys, Features, Gadgets, Gear, Gifts, Learning Center, New Products, Pilot Supplies

Article: Putting The Adventure Back In Aviation

“Adventure”—now there’s a word that’s open to interpretation. In fact, the phrase “adventure aviation” may seem redundant to most people because aviation itself usually is seen as an adventure.

Also labeled: Adventure Flying, Aircraft Bargains, Backcountry Flying, Best Buys, Bush Flying, Bush Pilots, Buying A Plane, Features, Ownership

Article: Top 12 Tech

So much has changed in aviation in the last 15 years. Never mind the fact that LSA and the sport pilot category have instigated innovation rivaled only by the “golden age” of aviation in the ’40s.

Also labeled: Best Buys, Gadgets, Gear, Gifts, Learning Center, New Products, Pilot Supplies

Article: The Most Affordable Singles

While our last buyer’s guide [“Buyer’s Mini-Guide To Four-Seat Singles,” P&P April 2010] included a smorgasbord of new airplanes, this one deals with used aircraft and draws from an even wider field.

Also labeled: Aircraft Bargains, Best Buys, Buying A Plane, Features, Finance, Learning Center, Ownership, Piston Singles

Article: Top 20 Tips For Buying An Airplane

There’s no feeling that matches that of buying an airplane.

Also labeled: Aircraft Bargains, Best Buys, Buying A Plane, Features, Finance, Learning Center, Ownership, Piston Singles

Article: Buyer’s Guide To Hangars, Doors And More

UV damage, bird proliferation, easy warm ups, cleanliness, weatherproof loading, privacy and security—these are on the long list of reasons why you might decide to store your airplane indoors and out of the weather.

Also labeled: Learning Center, Pilot Gear, Pilot Supplies

Article: Now And Future LSA

Remember those grade-school history-book pictures of Conestoga wagons with “California or bust” painted on their sides? R...

Also labeled: Aircraft Bargains, Best Buys, Buying A Plane, Features, Learning Center, LSAs, Ownership, Piston Singles, Sport Pilots

Article: SolidFX FX10

For years, U.S. instrument pilots have had a choice between charts from the FAA’s National Aeronautical Charting Office (NACO) and from Jeppesen, the overwhelming choice among commercial pilots.

Also labeled: Avionics, Best Buys, Cockpit Gadgets, Columns, Handheld Gadgets, Navigation, New Products, Pilot Gear, Pilot Supplies, Pilot Talk, Safety

Article: Buyer’s Mini-Guide To Four-Seat Singles

Traditional wisdom has it that most light airplane buyers purchase two seats more than they need.

Also labeled: Aircraft Bargains, Best Buys, Buying A Plane, Features, Learning Center, Ownership, Piston Singles