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Barb MacLeod

Barb MacLeod was born June 10,1943, in New York City. She explored her interest in caving as a geology majorat Antioch College, but she preferred working in the dirt to working in theclassroom. Since opportunities for women in geology were rare, she switched toanthropology, and now holds a Ph.D. from the University of Texas. Her […]

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Eye of Experience

Eye of Experience #35:
Safely Selling Your Airplane

Everybody knows about “buyer beware,” but how about seller beware? Much has been written on the subject of protecting oneself when purchasing an aircraft (see Rick Durden’s excellent AVweb column or Brian Jacobson’s comprehensive book on the subject, Purchasing & Evaluating Airplanes), but I have yet to see anything on the subject of protection for […]

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Air Shows & Events

NBAA 2000: A Multibillion-Dollar Baby

Rememberthe late Illinois Senator Everett Dirksen’s classic line about money? “Abillion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you’re talking about realmoney?” Well, no matter your perspective, real money was in ampleattendance at the 53rd annual convention of the National Business Aviation Association,which wound up its October 10-12 run of the Crescent City with the […]

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Air Shows & Events

Oshkosh 2000 Newswire:
Day Six – Sunday, July 30

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Air Shows & Events

Oshkosh 2000 Newswire:
Day Four – Friday, July 28

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Air Shows & Events

Oshkosh 2000 Newswire:
Day Three – Thursday, July 27

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Equipment Reviews

The Last Garmin GPSMAP 295 Review You’ll Ever Read

The title of this article is a thinly veiled attempt at humor about the timing of this review. It has been a year since Garmin first showed its long-anticipated color portable in July 1999 at EAA AirVenture, and since then I’ve lost track of how many emails I’ve received asking when I was going to […]

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AOPA

AOPA Expo 2000: The Elation Continues – The FAA Boss, a New Type Certificate, ASF’s 50th Mark a Strong Convention

The interested observer mightconclude that last week’s action in New Orleans was the be-all-and-end-all ofgeneral-aviation news-of-the-world, what with all the big-dollar purchases, newprogram announcements and avionics-program launches that came with the NationalBusiness Aviation Association convention. But general aviation pilots attending the annualconvention of the Aircraft Owners & Pilots Association – AOPA Expo 2000 -found plenty […]

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Dealing with Mechanicals On-the-Road

This was a trip I had been anticipating eagerly allyear. I’d been invited to give a seminar at the CaymanIslands’ International Aviation Week gathering, and would be flying myT310R from its west coast base to Key West Florida, then joining up with The Cayman Caravan to fly over the top of Cubaand into Grand Cayman. […]

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Commentary

Fees for Service Look a Lot Different – When You Get Stamped

Full Employment Is Only a Few New Fees Away December 28 1430 Z 9,500 msl V23, midway between Veracruz and Villahermosa VORs, Mexico Suddenly, it’s right there before of me and, ay, carumba, does it seem simple. Planemakers, our alphabet soup-group gurus and we pilots have it all wrong. We’ve mistakenly spent years of effort […]

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