What do you do when you want a Stearman but can’t afford one? You create your own Tiny Stearman, like Chris Hiatt did from his Baby Great Lakes.
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Video: Luscombe, the greatest general aviation innovator
The latest video posted on the Flying Doodles YouTube channel features a 1946 Luscombe 8A.
Slipping the surly bonds of ice
When Lancair pilot Matt Johnson was told to descend by ATC, he complied, then found his airplane was picking up ice. He remembers thinking about “how insane it was that I descended into ice-filled clouds from blue sky, no traffic within a hundred miles of me, just because some guy told me to.”
A December to Remember Aviation Log
When long-time pilot and General Aviation News writer Bill Walker decided to keep a log to document how aviation affects his life, he learned some very valuable lessons.
Finding the preflight “gotcha”
During his flight lessons, Rajeev Pandey’s CFI warned that one day he would “mess with something on the plane” and if he didn’t catch it, no flight lesson for that day. The day finally came when Rajeev discovered a “gotcha.”
Video: Upgrade your preflight
A new video from the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) features the association’s resident A&P Carlo Cilliers, who shares some expert tips to help you improve your preflight inspection.
General aviation airports suffer from costly mismanagement
In his study of 236 general aviation airports in Virginia, North Carolina, and Florida, Michael Jones found “dozens of examples of politicians making perfectly logical decisions which were completely wrong for an airport.”
Video: ‘A lack of operational discipline by pilots’
The Flight Safety Detectives, well-known aviation-industry consultants and former NTSB investigators John Goglia and Greg Feith, discuss a variety of general aviation incidents that happened on the ground, such as running over taxi lights, hitting another airplane on the ground while taxiing, or taking off with a tow bar still attached.
Starduster Too captures attention wherever it flies
“You know when you taxi this aircraft down to the runway, all eyes are on you.”