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AirVenture 2006 Photo Gallery #5: New Planes, Old Friends

ONE | TWO | THREE | FOUR | FIVE | SIX | SEVEN | EIGHT | NINE CLICK FOR LARGE IMAGESEACH IMAGE WILL OPEN IN A NEW WINDOW D-Jet A big day for Diamond D-Jet power All aboard Javelin: the blunt end Piaggio Avanti Mooney’s fast metal Cirrus’s fast glass Silver ‘Stang “Thunder Bird” SLSA […]

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Flight Review: Garmin GPSMap 496

Last year at Oshkosh, Garmin dropped the weather bomb on pilot nerds with the GPSMAP396, the first integrated, portable navigator with XM weather and music capabilities. Built on the 296 platform, it was faster, more capable and so feature rich that you might get through War and Peace before finishing the user’s manual. Now comes […]

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AVmail: Jul. 24, 2006

Professional Pilots’ Pay I would like to comment on the Question of the Week about professional airline pilots’ pay (QOTW, Jul. 13):Do not forget that when you use the term “airline pilot,” you include all airline pilots, regionals and the like!The general public assumes a great deal of money whenever they hear the term “airline […]

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Probable Cause #11: Right Pilot, Wrong Equipment

This article originally appeared in IFR Refresher, February 2005. In the past we have studied accidents that were the result of the pilot’s lack of weather flying experience. In some of those reports we discovered that the lack of overall flying experience also contributed to the outcome.This month we are going to look at an […]

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