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Plane & Pilot’s guide to aviation’s most current promotional deals

With one month to go (and it’s hard to imagine a big December), we have figures to report for this most extraordinary year. We’re all (painfully) aware of the economic predicament, but how has this impacted light-sport aviation? Here’s my observations. *** In 11 months, the industry has increased fleet size by 35% to 1,510 […]

My first use of advanced avionics in the backcountry

How would you like to be on a flight and have a weather diversion cost 1.8 million dollars? That’s the estimated cost of manpower, materials and fuel it takes to land the space shuttle at Edwards AFB in California instead of at its home base at Florida’s Cape Canaveral.

Vanilla, chocolate, strawberry or Fudge-Ribbon Granola-Mocha Delight? How’s a pilot to choose which bird to buy?

A look at new fixed-gear, four-seat singles

A simple, four-hour round-trip helps remind me of the practicality (and wonder) of flying.

To some of us, just getting off the ground is an adventure