Flying Magazine

JULY 18, 2025

When I visited the company’s Olathe, Kansas, engineering hangar to see a G5000 retrofit in progress, Garmin’s Dave Brown made a good point about these older turbine airframes needing a refresh. It’s a huge project. The pitch limits shrink from 20 to 10 degrees nose up and from 15 to 5 degrees nose down.

Flight Deck

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JUNE 29, 2025

I exited the terminal parking lot and walked east toward the hangar housing the museum. Between the runway and the collection of hangar buildings on the northwest corner of the field are two rows of tie downs whose positions are marked by airplane tires. Within those hangars, I found a number of treasures. For Tilting at.?

Runway

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MAY 19, 2025

Enter Tango Whiskey Aviation , an aerobatic flight school with operations at the Frederick Douglass Greater Rochester Area International Airport (KROC) and the Williamson-Sodus Airport (KSDC) where we share bays in the same hangar building. On short final, I established a steady descent rate and a stable sideslip to the left. "A

Rudder

Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 23, 2025

Taxiing procedures: Moving the aircraft to the runway involves steering with your feet using the rudder pedals. Landing Approach and descent Returning to the airport involves setting up for a stable approach. Ground operations Before takeoff, youll learn how to operate the aircraft on the ground. Its an unfamiliar but fun experience.

Rudder

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 15, 2024

I watched the stick flutter to and fro in sync with the rudder pedals as Wilkins fought to maintain the centerline, all the while pushing in the throttle. As the sun began its descent, we began the final leg of what would end up being a four-hour trek.

Runway

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FEBRUARY 2, 2025

At the airport, there was ice and snow to remove from in front of the hangar door, fuel to add to the Warrior now resting on three fully inflated tires (the left main had a new tube), and then there was the moment when I slipped on ice while pulling the airplane from the hangar and landed flat on my back. We had a deal.

Runway

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AUGUST 11, 2023

But hail is in a league all its own and only a hangar can protect against that. Starting with Pickens County, I called every small airport in the region looking for hangar space. I learned that I could overnight there in a hangar for $65. Nothing was available. I told them to expect me within a couple of hours.

Descent