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Pilot Report: Flying in the Martin Mars

Vintage Aviation News

We also got to look more at the cockpit controls and an explanation of some of the features of the flight deck which featured a modern EFIS Primary flight display and an excellent navigation display with GPS terrain mapping, very useful for when fighting fires flying at low levels in mountainous terrain.

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2700 Miles in a Cherokee Six

AeroSavvy

An autopilot and Aspen primary flight display reduce workload on long flights. Phoenix Approach Control gave us a few delay vectors before turning us onto final approach. For this trip, the middle row seats were removed to make the cabin a 1st class four-seater.