Galvin Flying Services at Boeing Field in Seattle has added two new aircraft to its fleet: a Lear 55B jet and a Bell 206 B-III helicopter. The Lear 55 is a seven-passenger aircraft configured in a luxurious executive style, complete with satellite telephone service, an enclosed lavatory and recently updated weather and traffic avionics. Hourly […]
Go online to order Phillips 66 lubricants
ConocoPhillips Lubricants has expanded the Phillips 66 Aviation website to enable online ordering of Phillips 66 aviation lubricants. The website, which provides information on Phillips 66 aviation fuels, lubricants, services, FBOs and useful aviation links, now also offers customers the opportunity to purchase cases and drums of Phillips 66’s aviation lubricants online. For more information:
S-TEC gets STC for Beechcraft 99 autopilot
S-TEC Corp. and Ameriflight have received an STC for the installation of S-TEC’s System Thirty autopilot on Beechcraft 99 turboprop aircraft, including the A99A, B99 and C99 models. “Ameriflight has been a customer of ours for a long time and when they approached us with the idea of obtaining an STC for the System Thirty […]
Pass your Instrument Practical Test in 14 days
Am I High Aviation in Stevens Point, Wis., now offers an Accelerated Instrument Flight Training Program. The total immersion program is based on military style training where six to eight hours is divided between flight time, simulator time and ground time. The IFR training program includes an accelerated Knowledge Test Prep, along with the accelerated […]
Pilot Journey adds new schools and completion certificate
Pilot Journey has added 80 flight schools to its Discovery Flight program and now offers a Discovery Flight Completion Certificate suitable for framing to all schools and pilot prospects at no charge. For more information:
The Ultimate Flight Lesson
Let me congratulate the whole editorial team of GAN on your very interesting magazine, some recent copies of which I have enjoyed reading while on (flying) holiday in Florida. In the July 21 issue, I read with great interest the article “The ultimate flight lesson: Crossing the North Atlantic” and I found the idea truly […]
Terrorists Used Airline, not GA
Why is it the fact it was airline security that was penetrated and commercial aircraft that were used in terrorist activity that somehow has been dropped by the wayside? Jim Lombard via email
A fix for a hard-starting engine
Paul, I just read your response to Joe Ragon in the July 7 issue (Why is my engine so hard to start?). I too experienced the hard-starting problem when I purchased my Comanche 250 with an O-540 Lycoming. The seller stated that it had always been a hard starter. I found that all five of […]
A nother fix for a hard-starting engine
I had the same hard to start problem in 1978 with my C152. The problem was Cessna only installed a single primer to the #2 cylinder of the Lycoming. This was a common thing for Cessna to install only one primer nozzle. If you over prime more than two shots on the single nozzle, then […]