Crosswind Landings FAQs
Maintain and expand your skills by unraveling some frequently asked questions about this intricate technique
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Cockpit Career Update Part 3: The Future Of Pilot Careers
Last month, we covered the technological changes occurring in the industry today. In this final installment of our three-part series, we’ll discuss what you can expect in years to come.
July-Aug 2004 On The Radar
 At its annual Aviation Forecast Conference, held recently in Washington, D.C., the Federal Aviation Admin-istration (FAA) released its forecast for general aviation (GA) from fiscal years 2004 through 2015. The FAA defines âgeneral aviationâ as âa diverse range of aviation activities and includes all segments of the aviation industry, except commercial air carriers and the military.â The report gives us the FAA’s perspective on everything from single-engine piston aircraft to corporate jets, gliders and even homebuilt airplanes, both now and over the coming 12-year period. |
The Bears Of Kamchatka
A pilot in the wilderness re-learns the lesson that the most dangerous animal on earth is man
Columbia 400 Gets Certified
This four-seat turbocharged composite is now the fastest production piston single in the world
1973 Bellanca Viking 300A N373EB
1973 Bellanca Viking 300A N373EB Used price: $59,000 Engine make/model: Continental IO-520K Horsepower@rpm@altitude: 300@2700@SL Horsepower for takeoff: 300 TBO hrs.: 2000 Fuel type: 100/100LL Propeller type/diameter: Hartzell CS Landing gear type: Tri/Retr. Max ramp weight (lbs.): 3325 Gross weight (lbs.): 3325 Landing weight (lbs.): 3325 Empty weight, std. (lbs.): 2185 Useful load, std. (lbs.): 1140 […]
2004 Liberty XL2 N204XL
2004 Liberty XL2 N204XL Base price, VFR: $139,500 Engine make/model: Continental IOF-240B Horsepower@rpm@takeoff: 125 Horsepower for takeoff: 125 TBO hrs.: 2000 Fuel type: 100/100LL Propeller type/diameter: Sensenich 2-blade fixed pitch Landing gear type: Tri/Fixed Max ramp weight (lbs.): 1653 Gross weight (lbs.): 1653 Landing weight (lbs.): 1653 Empty weight, std. (lbs.): 1065 Useful load, std. […]
Congratulations, Columbia 400
Faster than a speeding bullet, able to leap tall mountains in a single bound, look, up in the flight levels, it’s the 230-plus-knot certified Lancair single!
An Enthusiastic Cherokee
Maybe it isn’t the fastest 140 in the world’¦but then again it might be
