Pilot Reports

Amazing cockpit visibility, tough, nimble, fast: What’s not to like?

For most pilots flying 100 hours represents a decent year of enjoying aviation. Mike Blyth and James Pitman hit that on the first long leg of their ’round the world flight, traversing a huge expanse of ocean en route from South Africa to Oshkosh. Their total flight will see each logging nearly 250 hours of […]

Is there a pilot out there who doesn’t yearn for a Bonanza?

The Evektor SportStar SL is friendly to fly, sturdy, beautiful and roomy’€”and what a view!

Flying Embraer’s first entry-level jet, the Phenom 100

Head over heels in the Sukhoi Su-29

1997’€“Present

Cessna initiates changes to its recently acquired Columbia line of low-wing singles

A long and winding trail in the sky, this story is… Once upon a time an American traveled to the Czech Republic, founded a small business to build kit aircraft, grew that into a full-fledged LSA producer, gained an investor with whom he later disagreed, and lost his enterprise. That’s the shortest possible take on […]

The Ovation 3 is the fastest normally aspirated production single ever’€”period