Dan Pimentel

Phil Lockwood provides insight on the most popular light sport engine.

Usually, when a pilot sits down to flight plan a cross-country trip of 2,100 nm from one coast of the U.S. to the other, there is a Cirrus SR22 or Pilatus PC-12 involved. If that planned route takes you from Naples, Florida, to Riverside, California, over several days and through all sorts of weather, flying […]

After earning his private pilot certificate and flying Cessna 172s, FLYING’s owner and CEO Craig Fuller “did the math” and discovered what many buyers also learn—that it was just not possible to find one perfect airplane to serve him for every desired mission. He wanted something fun for pure recreational flying, but also something that […]

We all know many people who express an interest in learning to fly, but when they finally decide to walk into a flight school that only teaches private pilot and above, the sticker shock of earning a private pilot certificate can often scare them right back into the parking lot. It is this high cost […]

Jerrie Mock’s name should be spoken in the same breath as Charles Lindbergh and other aviation legends. Her circumnavigation remains an enduring achievement.

Pre-pandemic, the commercial pilot shortage was top of mind for just about anyone in the aviation community. Then, COVID-19 ravaged the globe, airline travel took a massive hit, and in survival mode airlines began shedding pilots through furloughs and early retirement packages.  Fast-forward to today, and airline travel is back in a big way, even […]

First Peoples’ flight training is based on the indigenous “way of knowing.”

New Bristell LSA owner Don McKenzie takes FLYING deep inside the ownership experience, and details what it is like to own and fly one of general aviation’s best-looking light-sport models.

In every segment of aviation, there are people who are considered to be experts, the kind of leaders that have the pulse of the entire segment and have acquired their considerable knowledge base from many years of being on top of industry and market developments every day.  For the light sport category of aircraft and […]

If you have ever attended one of the sport aviation shows in Sebring or DeLand, Florida, there is a significant chance that Jana Filip was involved in everything you saw, learned, flew, and tasted. As the sport aviation administrator at the DeLand Municipal Airport, Filip and a team of volunteers are in the final stages […]