Plane and Pilot

JANUARY 30, 2025

Additionally, its been flown nearly 300 hours over the past year and a half, making it a safer, better-sorted alternative than others that have sat in the hangar (or on the ramp) unused for months or years. A Stratus transponder with ADS-B out ensures you can access Class Bravo and Charlie airports without concern.

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Transponder Airplanes General Aviation Hangar 93

Northstar VFR

AUGUST 25, 2024

These checks take a full working day, so the aircraft is usually parked inside of a hangar. These checks require many more man hours, tools, hangar space, and aircraft downtime. T: TRANSPONDER INSPECTION (FAR 91.413) The transponder also must be inspected every 24 calendar months, even for flight under VFR (visual flight rules).

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Annual Inspection VOR Instrument Flight Rules Altimeter 64

Plane and Pilot

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

The Legacy General Aviation Fleet The beauty of so many legacy single-engine GA aircraft is that, when cared for properly, their aluminum airframes are quite resilient and resistant to fatigue. Maybe this is due to the slide rule and drafting table generation that designed them.

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Cockpit Instrument Landing System Approach Pilot 106

Photographic Logbook

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Among General Aviation pilots, there was great fear that private aircraft would be permanently barred from controlled airspace, particularly around the epicenters of those attacks in New York City and Washington DC. Although 9/11 marked the weaponization of commercial aircraft, the aftereffects are felt most keenly by General Aviation.

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Transponder Approach Clearance General Aviation 52

Plane and Pilot

AUGUST 10, 2024

Most of the emergency procedures training we do in general aviation airplanes center around just two simple words: “What if?” The average age of the current general aviation fleet is somewhere between 35 and 50 years. As I considered this conundrum one evening, the movie Apollo 13 appeared on the screen.

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Cockpit Pilot Transponder Ceiling 107

Photographic Logbook

SEPTEMBER 22, 2024

With me in Warrior 481 were my friend Mark, who joined me for the last excursion to ORA and also sought closure from the aborted airshow, and Noah, a new student pilot with the Williamson Flying Club making his first cross country trip by general aviation aircraft. I spotted something new incongruously placed in the Curtiss hangar.

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Airplanes Runway Pilot Aileron 56

Plane and Pilot

DECEMBER 16, 2024

General aviation is driven by myriad forces. To get the full picture surrounding the F2, I flew to Tulsa, Oklahoma, to visit Airtime Aviation , the exclusive U.S. It was our completion center for our CF23 version of the aircraft, but it was a small hangar and warehouse. Then theres the sales and marketing footprint.

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Airplanes Rudder Aileron Crosswind 98