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Article: From The Editor: Extreme Flying

It's a story of deserted beaches, do-it-yourself runways, a wildebeest migration, fee negotiations, active volcanoes and two highly modified Super Cubs. ...

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: The VLJ Market—13 Years Late

New airplanes sell (or don't sell) for a variety of reasons.

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: Light-Sport Chronicles: Spine Of Steel

One more thing: She just earned her sport-pilot wings. And she did it all from a wheelchair.

Also labeled: Features, Journeys, LSAs, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: Improving Search And Rescue

As of mid-2012, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA) Satellite Operations Center in Suitland, Md., had about 355,000 of the newer 406 MHz emergency beacons registered in its SARSAT database.

Also labeled: Accident Statistics, FAA Regulations, Features, NTSB Reports, People and Places, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Proficiency, Safety

Article: Who Was Lt. A. F. Linde?

On the back of the sheath, it says, "A.F. Linde, O-930832." That was the pilot's name and service number.

Also labeled: Features, Pilot Talk

Article: From The Editor: Luxury Camping

When you think of camping with an airplane in the backcountry, a Cirrus—known for its luxury cross-country capabilities—probably isn't the first thing that comes to mind. ...

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: Flying The Middle East

I had delivered the Beech Duke to Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, five months before on the premise that the airplane might be able to improve rainfall. ...

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: Monoplane Revolution

In 1984, I trained with air show pilot Duane Cole at Luck Field in Burleson, Texas, for the Intermediate category of the U.S. National Aerobatic Championships. ...

Also labeled: Aviation Personalities, Careers, Features, Learning Center, People and Places, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills

Article: Counting On The Instructor

A student may show an initial tendency to move the bar in the direction of the desired turn.

Also labeled: Accident Statistics, FAA Regulations, Features, NTSB Reports, People and Places, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk

Article: Light-Sport Chronicles: Mike Z And The Harbingers Of Doom!

A leading aviation magazine recently ran a story that proclaimed the LSA industry as a "segment in critical condition."

Also labeled: Features, Journeys, LSAs, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: And Speaking Of Power

Last week, one of those moments had me trying to fish my phone out from under my five-point harness—and failing.

Also labeled: Features, Pilot Talk

Article: From The Editor: Plane On A Mission

When we ask pilots what their dream airplane is, we rarely receive a one-airplane reply.

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: A Summer Of Opportunity

After going to an air show in Canada and a competition in Wisconsin in 1983, I knew that flying aerobatics was what I was meant to do.

Also labeled: Aviation Personalities, Careers, Features, People and Places, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk

Article: The Forgiving FAA

I called up Flight Watch crossing the Colorado River at Lake Havasu and learned that most of the Los Angeles Basin was rapidly deteriorating toward IFR minimums. ...

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: Minimal Experience

Browse through the Federal Aviation Regulations (FARs), and you'll see specifications for experience in many areas of piloting.

Also labeled: Accident Statistics, FAA Regulations, Features, NTSB Reports, People and Places, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Proficiency, Safety

Article: I Wanna Build...

All of us have curious habits that we'd just as soon have no one know about.

Also labeled: Features, Pilot Talk

Article: Light-Sport Chronicles: Sport-Pilot Survey Says! Part III

In our first two summaries of LSA pilot opinion, we covered the LSA Who/What/When/Where basics.

Also labeled: Features, Journeys, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: The Life Of An Air Show Pilot

If you love what you do, you're not really working, but being an air show pilot is a mixture of hard work and hardly working.

Also labeled: Aviation Personalities, Careers, Features, Guest Speaker, Learning Center, People and Places, Pilot Skills

Article: From The Editor: Panhandle Backcountry

Northern Idaho is an adventure pilot's dreamland, with dozens of backcountry strips, stunning mountain flying and sizeable lakes perfect for seaplanes. ...

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: There’s Something About Mountains

The Pan-American Highway threads its way steeply uphill out of Santiago, Chile, climbing into the rarified air of South America's high Andes. ...

Also labeled: Features, Pilot Talk

Article: Light-Sport Chronicles: Sport-Pilot Survey Says! Part II

Last month, through our survey, we met our group of respondents and found out what light-sport aircraft (LSA) they fly.

Also labeled: Features, Journeys, LSAs, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: When Close Friends Get Too Close

One of the great things about aviation is that people are drawn together by this unique avocation as if they were members of a fraternity or sorority. ...

Also labeled: Accident Statistics, FAA Regulations, Features, NTSB Reports, People and Places, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk, Proficiency, Safety

Article: Warbirds And Me

Does any one actually not like warbirds?

Also labeled: Features, Pilot Talk

Article: Kenya

I love early mornings in Tsavo. ...

Also labeled: Aviation Personalities, Careers, Features, Guest Speaker, People and Places, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Pilot Talk

Article: From The Editor: Sky Therapy

For some, lying on the sofa in a counselor's office is therapy.

Also labeled: Features, People and Places

Article: Flying Alone

Like most new pilots, I began my career renting airplanes and flying with as many friends as I could to mitigate the cost.

Also labeled: Features, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: The Reno Accident

The chances are minimal that most pilots will ever find themselves in the same circumstances as did James "Jimmy" Leeward on September 16, 2011. ...

Also labeled: Accident Statistics, FAA Regulations, Features, NTSB Reports, People and Places, Pilot Safety, Pilot Skills, Proficiency, Safety

Article: Light-Sport Chronicles: Sport-Pilot Survey Says!

Sometimes, I like to douse my assumptions and fantasies with a cup of cold, real-world info about the kinds of LSA flying all you folks are actually doing, versus what I might imagine you're doing.

Also labeled: Features, Journeys, LSAs, People and Places, Pilot Talk

Article: A Career Change

Here's an interesting question that popped up recently: In what do you invest a life and call it a wise investment?

Also labeled: Features, Pilot Talk

Article: From The Editor: Navigating New York

It's some of the busiest airspace in the country. New York Harbor sits right between Class B airports LaGuardia, Kennedy and Newark, but for VFR pilots it's accessible via the Hudson River Corridor.

Also labeled: People and Places, Pilot Talk