Aviation magazines

Pilot_adam · Post by **Pilot_adam** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:20 am

What is your favourite aviation magazine??!! ..
I have been reading Private Pilot magazine and Flying magazine.
not bad for the price ...
Just wondering if you know of any that can be considered a good learning material.
Cheers
Adam

Hedley · Post by **Hedley** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:28 am

I don't read Private Pilot or Plane & Pilot, or even Flying any more - they're all pretty lightweight, you're done in a few minutes.

I might suggest AOPA's "Flight Training" magazine:

http://flighttraining.aopa.org/ft_magazine/

The generic AOPA magazine is ok, but it's not really a whole lot different than Flying.

I haven't read the COPA newspaper in years though - I find it depressing. Great for starting fires in the wood stove, though.

For a good "comic book", I prefer the Smithsonsian Air & Space magazine, but that's probably just my age showing:

http://www.airspacemag.com/

Juggs · Post by **Juggs** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:55 am

Shoot, Hedley beat me to it. Those were the two magazines that I was going to recommend. Air and Space is available on some "research" databases, check and see what your local school or university has in regards to that.

Air and Space, I believe, has an article that is either in this month's issue or next month's issue about Buffalo Airways and Joe.

Both are an excellent read, usually filled with something more than advertisers and articles about products that advertisers paid for.

desksgo · Post by **desksgo** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 8:58 am

It's not a training magazine, but Professional Pilot is my favourite. It represents the industry (corp. side) the way it should be, some may feel it is not applicable in Canada, but I think one can still learn from it.

A professional demeanor is a blanket rating; you can transfer it from aircraft to aircraft regardless of whether you wear blue jeans, khakis or dress pants...

Wild Cat · Post by **Wild Cat** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:02 am

Canadian Aviator is the best man!!!

I mean the best. Only thing is, there is always one left or sold out every time I try to buy one.

hz2p · Post by **hz2p** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 11:17 am

Shiny Side Up · Post by **Shiny Side Up** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 1:01 pm

Private Pilot, Plane and Pilot and Flying tend to irk me because they generally keep recycling the same tired articles. I mean how often do you need to read about "The ten most affordable aircraft" or the usual indecicive "Cessna vs Piper" stuff. Some of the tips seem to be of dubious value as well - one memorable article advocated a steep descending turn into downwind at an uncontrolled airport, another advocating the installation of a complete set of backup electricals and gyros into a Trauma-hawk, the worst being one writer who put the idiot idea into one of my student's heads that making the 180 turn back to the runway way ok below 500 agl.

Anyhoo, a personal favorite mag happens to be Aviation History, lots of good stories inside.

BTD · Post by **BTD** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 2:14 pm

Shiny, I think I read that one too. Was it written by Barry S.? He has some good points in that article but man, try making those decisions when the adrenelin kicks in at like 400 AGL. Pick a cut off point and stay with it.

Anyone know of good magazines with lots of stories in them? I like the Jumpseat column in Flying because he tells a story about flying. I get kinda sick of piston singles vs piston twins.

BTD

golden hawk · Post by **golden hawk** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:52 pm

Aviation International News

hazatude · Post by **hazatude** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 4:59 pm

You ever notice how there are never any hot chicks in pilot magazines? Any other male oriented sport (race cars etc.) has bikini chicks galore, but aviation only has David Clarke ads and pics of the new Citations

A. Thompson · Post by **A. Thompson** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:11 pm

For a business perspective, "Aviation Week"

rippey · Post by **rippey** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:22 pm

Flying has a few decent articles...but it seems to be mostly geared to wealthy americans with their brand new cirrus and C182s with glass cockpits etc.
My favorite is Business and Commercial Aviation, great magazine from the people who publish aviation week. Definitely geared towards corporate but the articles are great for anyone flying turbine equipment. Over the last several issues they had great reading on high speed aborts, and there is always a great in depth analysis of accidents. The best part is you can get a free subscription if you are in the industry.

Rudy · Post by **Rudy** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:35 pm

rippey wrote:The best part is you can get a free subscription if you are in the industry.

You mean by stealing them from work or fbo's?

costermonger · Post by **costermonger** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:45 pm

hazatude wrote:You ever notice how there are never any hot chicks in pilot magazines? Any other male oriented sport (race cars etc.) has bikini chicks galore, but aviation only has David Clarke ads and pics of the new Citations

This is true.. Sometimes Marth King is as good as it gets. That's not good.

IMHO, Flying's worth it for the columns, but Air & Space is on top for originality and breadth of topic. I tend to stay away from Plane and Pilot and Private Pilot simply because they're an endless stream of comparison articles about aircraft I have little intrest in flying and no interest in owning. Professional Pilot's good but a bit expensive.

Combat Aircraft is very interesting if that's your thing.

it'sme · Post by **it'sme** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 5:49 pm

I remember a magazine back in the mid 70's that only last a few months. I still have the inaugural copy. It had several articles of substance about aircraft operations etc but right in the middle had about 4 pages of what can only be described as a Penthouse centerfold. It was the best of both worlds!

Sorry ladies.....what can I say. I appreciate the female form.

Cat Driver · Post by **Cat Driver** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 6:16 pm

For me I prefeer CAR's, you never get to the end and even if you did it is so exciting you just start all over.

Cat

I_Drive_Planes · Post by **I_Drive_Planes** » Tue Nov 01, 2005 9:10 pm

hazatude wrote:You ever notice how there are never any hot chicks in pilot magazines? Any other male oriented sport (race cars etc.) has bikini chicks galore, but aviation only has David Clarke ads and pics of the new Citations

Awhile back Private Pilot had a Aerocomp 8 turbine on amphibious floats (excuse my drool) on the cover complete with bikini-clad women (excuse my drool again). They recieved all sorts of bitching whining letters from the puritans and eunuchs (these girls were basically in the background for crying out loud, not like in a magazine such as Easyriders, or I guess it would be Easyfliers

) so it never happened again. Great article BTW, I wish we could have those planes in Canada! I'm really suprised we don't see more of it, being that the core audience for aviation magazines happens to be men. I fail to understand why it is so difficult for one magazine to combine two of my favorite things, scantily clad women, and airplanes!

Planes

mikegtzg · Post by **mikegtzg** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:28 am

Canadian Aviation has had some very good articles. I haven't been able to find it lately.
I'm not much of a Kitplanes fan. They seem to only present the positive points of the aircraft they review and don't target actually flyng the aircraft.
Custom planes was an excellent magazine. Good stories on restoring and owning older certified aircraft and good homebuilt coverage. A couple years ago they also started including articles on airmanship and how the aircraft they review fly. (to real world pilots...we unfortunately aren't all the aerobatic fighter plane type) Also the editorials by Norm Goyer are excellent. Unfortunately it ceased publication this spring and merged with Private Pilot.
Private Pilot was okay. Norm Goyer editorials. Articles on all types of aircraft, flying them, and flying in general. Unfortunately they also ceased publication last month and merged with Plane & Pilot.
Plane & Pilot is great if you want to read about expensive newer aircraft. Expensive glass panels and articles that review aircraft that hardly emphasize flying them. I am usually disappointed when after reading it.
COPA is light, but the classifieds are great. And if you want to read about ELT's it is the best anywhere. Sometimes there are very good articles. I have noticed a strange trend in the aircraft reviews by the author to recommend various hours of dual training to fly the model based on the pilots licence type. Rather than the pilots experience.
AOPA Flight Training is very good. Like all magazines many topics just get rehashed after a while. (sometimes that is a good thing)

... · Post by **...** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 1:30 am

hazatude wrote:You ever notice how there are never any hot chicks in pilot magazines? Any other male oriented sport (race cars etc.) has bikini chicks galore, but aviation only has David Clarke ads and pics of the new Citations

....wtf...?

Amelia Earhart was smokin'

LostinRotation · Post by **LostinRotation** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 3:12 am

I'm going to have to go with DG and say Professional Pilot has to be my favorite, partially because they send it to my door and it's free but the content is great. Alot of exposure to different aspects of aviation but focused on Executive Aviation. Safety oriented and each month they ask for our input of different issues from Electronic flight bags to fuel costs and headset preferences.

-=0=LIR=0=-

Zatopec · Post by **Zatopec** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 5:50 am

Yup, Professionnal Pilot is my choice as well!

Beaver Driver · Post by **Beaver Driver** » Wed Nov 02, 2005 6:45 am

One that hasn't been mentioned is the EAA magazine. I can't think of the name right now, but it has good indepth articles about airplanes I could only dream of owning. I see the EAA also has magazines that focus on warbirds and another on aerobatics, but I haven't seen either one.

It's been years since I've read Plane and Pilot. I used to think it was the best, but once you have been through the whole cycle and they start reprinting the "top ten ...." articles, it gets old real fast. Also they always have an article about "Flying the Back Country" They figure any airport with out ATC and less than 5000' of pavement is back country.

monkeyspankmasterflex · Wed Nov 02, 2005 7:10 am

Hustler is pretty good, just the right amount of aviation content.

Panama Jack · Post by **Panama Jack** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 6:08 am

hazatude wrote:You ever notice how there are never any hot chicks in pilot magazines?

No bikini pics, however, Professional Pilot Magazine's readers share their thoughts about the best FBO's and best CSR's at them. Then they publish pictures. Seems like the most attractive ones are most often mentioned.

Illustration: Corporate Pilots dilligently searching far and wide for the best CSR

Nice thing about Professional Pilot is that it is Free (yes, Free, the pilot's favorite 4-letter "F"-word)!!! * Certain qualifying requirements exist

I don't care much for any of the common flying magazines (Flying/Plane & Pilot/Private Pilot).

wallypilot · Post by **wallypilot** » Thu Nov 03, 2005 9:08 am

WINGS(I have a subscription) & Canadian Aviation(often sold out....have to get a subscription, i guess). I really got tired of the recycling of articles in Private Pilot & Other US pubs.