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Opinion

Lots of leadership changes

By Ben Sclair · January 5, 2025 · 5 Comments

Is it just me or is there an abnormal amount of change at multiple aviation organizations?

Unleaded avgas: As I see it

By Paul McBride · January 2, 2025 · 18 Comments

Switching GA to unleaded fuel is something that has been going on for the better part of 50 years, if not longer. I vividly remember being pounded on at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh for many, many years as to why Lycoming wouldn’t approve the use of “car gas” in its engines.

Share the joy when you can

By Jamie Beckett · December 31, 2024 · 3 Comments

After many years, so many annual inspections, multiple flight reviews, and an untold number of weather delays, it is possible to become slightly jaded about the wonder of aviation. But I suspect you’ll find, as I have, that introducing non-pilots who have a fresh set of eyes to even the most benign aeronautical experience can have great effect.

A toast to the importance of aviation

By Frederick Johnsen · December 30, 2024 · 1 Comment

“Aviation is even more widely interesting than prohibition.”

The profound value of the basics

By Jamie Beckett · December 24, 2024 · 1 Comment

Who among us hasn’t had a flight instructor in the right seat repeating the words, “right rudder” over and over again? I heard that refrain quite frequently when I was a new student pilot. I nearly used the phrase to its ultimate limit when I was the CFI in the right seat. And I will acknowledge with a bit of humility that once, just once a CFI giving me a flight review threw that term out for me to consider when I’d lost focus for a moment.

Thank you

By Ben Sclair · December 23, 2024 · Leave a Comment

Cover of the December 12, 2024 edition of the General Aviation News

I manage our subscriber list. Recently, a batch of 10 new subscriptions hit my inbox all at once and all from the same person. While we do have a number of gift givers, this welcome activity is not the norm. 

When F-86s challenged a B-24

By Frederick Johnsen · December 19, 2024 · 1 Comment

Today that B-24J Liberator occupies a place of honor in one of the Pima Air & Space Museum’s buildings where it still wears a mix of U.S. and Indian markings.

Questions from the Cockpit: A Christmas quandary

By William E. Dubois · December 18, 2024 · 6 Comments

Nancy, a student pilot in Florida, writes: Over airport pancakes and discussion of holiday plans, Ol’ Saint Nick’s airport came up, and my friends and I began to banter about the location of the North Pole Airport and what its GPS location would be. I thought it should be 0° North latitude, by 0° longitude…but then I realized that I don’t know if zero longitude is west or east. To top off all that confusion, Google says the North Pole is at 90° north, 135° west! What gives?

For the love of aeronautical surf n’ turf

By Jamie Beckett · December 17, 2024 · 5 Comments

Like many pilots who have had the opportunity to fly a wide assortment of airplanes, I’m occasionally asked, “what’s your favorite airplane?”

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