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Round Dials or Glass Cockpits?

Plane and Pilot

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. So, what is an aircraft owner-operator to do?

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Wrong Way Woes

Ask the Pilot

More than once… In 2013, a Southwest 737 destined for Branson, Missouri, instead ended up at a small general aviation field nearby, touching down on a runway less than four thousand feet long. It can be one, or the other, or both, depending on circumstances: the aircraft type, the approach being flown, the weather, the airport.