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Pilot, Know Thyself: Discovering What It Means to Be Painfully Average

Flying Magazine

If there’s anything I’ve learned in my 31 years in aviation, it’s that just about every pilot claims their spiritual hometown as Lake Wobegon, where “all the women are strong, all the men are good-looking, and all the children are above average.” My airline uses it both internally and as a pilot-facing app on our iPad EFBs.

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Used Aircraft Guide: Beechcraft Bonanza 36 Ranks at Top of Six-Place Piston Singles

Flying Magazine

Sales pros tell us that while inventory might be more plentiful than it was just a couple of years ago as older pilots walk away from their Bonanzas (many forced out by the hardened insurance market that frowns upon senior pilots flying retracs), resale prices remain strong. Bonanza pilots learn early on to use the electric pitch trim.

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CubCrafters Makes Key Super Cub Weight Increase STC Public

Plane and Pilot

Originally obtained in 2007 and updated in 2012, the STC significantly increases the eligible gross weight of the Super Cub from 1,750 lbs. In order to achieve this 30 percent gross weight boost, CubCrafters secured FAA approval to combine six key modifications into one STC. to 2,300 lbs.

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Game On!

Plane and Pilot

I dont exactly fit the standard pilot profile of Game Aerospaces GB1 GameBird But theres always been something about the GameBird that has piqued my interest. Its first-class team, led by Ian Waghorn, ensures that pilots leave the training program feeling confident, competent, and safe in their new or new-to-them GameBird.

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This 1978 Piper PA-18A 150 Super Cub Is a STOL-Pioneering ‘AircraftForSale’ Top Pick

Flying Magazine

WIth a growing number of pilots becoming interested in bush and backcountry flying, and perhaps the occasional STOL competition, aircraft manufacturers have turned out an impressive crop of short-field-capable aircraft with big tires, robust suspensions, and precise handling at low speeds.

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We Fly: Epic E1000 AX

Flying Magazine

Epic has just released the most recent iteration of the airplane, the E1000 AX, with a major avionics upgrade including Garmin’s G1000 NXi suite and upped the useful load to an advertised (on its website) 2,860 pounds—gross weight 8,000, max ramp weight 8,035. The solution is to put something in the baggage compartment.

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This Incredible Plane: Transavia PL-12 Airtruk

Plane and Pilot

It was short, stubby, very tall, and had two wings and two tails. To that he added wings and tail, and placed the pilot behind all this. The unique twin tails completed this one-of-a-kind design and became the signature feature of the entire line. The pilot moved from behind the hopper to the top of it.