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Let’s Fly to New Destinations in 2022 and Beyond

New travel section will offer strategies for getting out, having fun.

Apart from the destinations, travel by air offers luxuries that often aren't thought of. So why don't we do it more? [Credit: Adobe Stock]
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Key Takeaways:

  • Private pilots often find it challenging to use their aircraft for extensive travel to distant destinations, despite general aviation's inherent advantages in speed and freedom.
  • The article introduces a new "Travel Destinations" section aimed at exploring these obstacles and providing strategies for pilots to maximize their flying for actual travel and enjoyment.
  • The author's personal motivation for becoming a pilot was driven by the prospect of travel, solidified by an encounter with a "For Sale" Cessna during a family vacation.
  • Readers are invited to join the author in a collective quest to visit new places by air and find creative ways to enhance their flying and travel experiences.
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Flying and travel clearly go together. While ships, trains, and cars have helped people get around more easily, nothing shrinks the globe quite as effectively as aircraft.

In general aviation, traveling by air offers rare luxuries like the freedom of setting one’s schedule and relief from clogged highways. Traveling 1,000 miles in a day is within reach, possibly before lunch. So why is it often hard for private pilots to make this “farther, faster” formula work for them? Why do many say things like, “I fly around, but I haven’t really gone anywhere lately?”

Jonathan Welsh

Jonathan Welsh is Lead Editor of Aviation Consumer and a private pilot who worked as a reporter, editor and columnist with the Wall Street Journal for 21 years, mostly covering the auto industry. His passion for aviation began in childhood with balsa-wood gliders his aunt would buy for him at the corner store. Follow Jonathan on Twitter @JonathanWelsh4

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