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[IMGCAP(1)]Like the speed of light and the fact that the best parking spaces are already taken, one of the constants in the universe is this imponderable question: Is a twin safer than a single? Does having two motors really add measurably to the safety margin or is it, like so much else in GA, undiluted marketing hype?

If we could answer this question, we could also turn lead to gold and all of our computer hardware would actually play when plugged. In the end, however, we think there are too many variables to say with assurance that an extra engine really does improve the safety margin for the average owner-pilot. We emphasize average as a means of noting that not all owners pursue th…

Even a subtle sign of flame or smoke in the cockpit is a bona fide emergency. It demands immediate action.

Everyone knows finding the right flight instructor is a crap shoot, so whats that say about the state of the industry?

The FAA has got it right this time with publication of its sport pilot and light-sport aircraft rules. These new rules finally recognize the crucial differences in the type of general aviation airplanes people want to fly, and how they want to use them. Categorizing airplanes and pilots by intended use is actually an old, […]

I bought a new Cardinal RG in 1976 and, while I liked the airplane, my mission changed. I had been living in Little Rock, Arkansas, working for Flying, and the general aviation business of that day was concentrated in the middle of the country. My average jaunt was about 300 nm. In 1977, I moved […]

||| |—|—| | | | After nearly a decade’s hiatus, the Tiger has returned to production. On December 3rd Tiger Aircraft hosted a roll-out ceremony at its Martinsburg, West Virginia, factory to announce that it had obtained an FAA type certificate for the sprightly single. For good measure, the company also rolled out the first […]

||| |—|—| | | | Pilots and controllers are doing a pretty good job of keeping airplanes apart on the runway. During the four-year period from 1997 to 2000 there were 266 million takeoff and landing operations at the country’s 459 tower-controlled airports, and only 1,369 of those operations involved a runway incursion. That means […]

||| |—|—| | | | Consider the following scenarios: …You are on final approach to a major airport when your airplane unexpectedly hits wake turbulence, which turns it upside down. …As you initiate your takeoff roll, the gust front from an approaching storm blows you into the air at a low airspeed and high angle […]

||| |—|—| | | | It seemed such an innocuous decision at the time. Life had gotten a bit much, I was behind schedule, the late August weather patterns looked bad, and I needed to get home to California for some meetings. “Well,” I thought. “I’ll just leave the airplane in New York for now […]

I never thought I would live to see the day that all civil aviation in this country was grounded. But it happened on September 11. It was spooky as my wife, Stancie, and I walked our dogs in the early evening in the Connecticut suburbs just northeast of New York City. Normally the air is […]