Innholdsfortegnelse for March 2024 i Plane & Pilot

ACROSS 1 First Officer’s senior 5 ____ shear: sudden drastic shift in wind speed, direction or both 7 Threefold 8 VoltAero’s hybrid electric aircraft, 2 words 9 Like desert landings strips perhaps 11 Plan, as a course 13 ____ Cherokee 15 Oregon to the USA, abbr. 16 Scrubbed as a flight, 2 words 18 ____ Celera 500L: experimental plane using laminar flow 19 Titanium symbol 20 Rotary engine that extracts energy from a flow of combustion gases 22 Friend 24 Book written by Ameila Earhart, 4 words 26 Augusta’s state, abbr. 28 Supports 30 Angle of ___ (angle between a reference line on an airfoil and the relative wind) 32 Game arbiter, abbr. 33 All-nations org., abbr. 34 Without warning 35 GPS system, 2 words DOWN 1 Pilot’s compartment 2 ____…

“Alaska is trying really hard to kill you all the time,” said Chip Ferguson. “The challenges and rewards are immense, but it is not for everyone.” Chip and Amanda Ferguson own Alaska Rainbow Lodge on the Kvichak River, located 230 miles southwest of Anchorage. They host anglers from around the world who come for world-class rainbow trout fishing, bear watching, and incomparable scenery. Most arrive by commercial flights into Anchorage and then catch a chartered King Air to King Salmon, where they board one of Chip Ferguson’s three de Havilland Beavers for the 30-minute flight to the lodge. I visited with them on the “outside” in Galveston, Texas. I’ve been fortunate to fly Super Cubs and floatplanes in Alaska for adventure and exploration, but never as a working pilot, so…

“KNOW YOUR LIMITATIONS AND DON’T EXCEED THEM” is common advice for aviators. That statement is all well and good, so far as it goes. It generally encourages you, as the pilot, to do a good job of preparing for each flight and keep up your stockpile of skills by regular training and practice. In doing so, you’ve made sure you’re not going to overstep your abilities. The problem is, there’s more than this one limitation involved in the average flight, beyond just the perils that can be met by our piloting ability. We need to consider the full range of hazards we’re facing, and that involves more than just assessing the pilot’s ability. The pilot in command (PIC) of a flight certainly has to make sure that he or she’s not…

Still My Fave My brother and I started flying in 1947, and in all the years our favorite magazine was Plane & Pilot. We joined a club in 1947, and we purchased a new Piper PA-11, which we still own. After 73 years of flying, I had to quit, being 96 years of age. What an experience this flying farmer has had covering the U.S. and Canada! And I still look for the new issue of Plane & Pilot. Glenn Kinneberg via email Youth Could Be Served I read your intro to the [November/December] issue—[a] perfect fit for me at 50 hours toward my PPT [public passenger transport] certification. I have a topic for you to consider. I am learning to fly along with my 17-year-old son. That is not…

Plane & Pilot’s theme is simple—the title says it all. Airplanes and pilots interacting with one another in harmony. Just the other day, I was flying for my real-life company down into the Miami-Opa Locka Executive Airport (KOPF) and came across a real-life ICON A5. I had never seen one before, and suddenly there it was in front of me. A Microsoft Flight Simulator 2020 airplane in the flesh! I never was fond of the idea of the flagship “new” sim of August 2020 featuring an airplane that looked and felt like a car and was even simpler than a car on the inside. I guess I felt it was too “toy-like,” whatever that means, as we all use that term more often than not. Now that I was inspired by…

Many training programs for on-the-road vehicles focus on defensive driving techniques as a safety strategy. They include key points, such as avoiding distractions, trying to predict risks ahead, not assuming others will do what you would in a particular situation, being aware of other vehicles, signaling, and being careful at intersections just in case the other drivers fail to stop for signs or traffic lights. These all seem pretty logical to us as drivers, but too much of the time, we don’t think defensively as pilots in our flying. The same concepts we use in defensive driving apply to flight operations to help us mitigate risks of violations, incidents, or accidents. A little attention to flying defensively may convert those thoughts into mitigation of potential risks in our flight operations.…

Piper Aircraft revealed its most powerful single—the M700 Fury—in a livestream event on February 6. The new $4.1 million M700 Fury adds a Pratt & Whitney PT6A-52 powerplant up front, flat-rated to 700 hp, giving the updated machine its name. The extra power pushes the Fury past the 300-knot barrier to a maximum cruise speed of 301 ktas, according to the company. Piper expects FAA certification at the end of the first quarter of 2024, with deliveries to follow shortly thereafter. The M700 keeps the Garmin G3000 glass up front with its GTC touchscreen controllers and the Collier Trophy-winning Halo autoland emergency landing system on board. Interior appointments include new leather and seat styling, with six choices for the Fury. Following first deliveries in the U.S., Piper will pursue validations…

New York’s Hudson Valley often feels like it was created with family road trips in mind. When I was a kid, we spent a lot of time driving to the region from our home in New Jersey. At some point, I figured out that the sights and activities we enjoyed there were available closer to home, without the need to drive all day. Still, there was something about the atmosphere of the valley that made the extra hours worthwhile. For years, my older sisters and I looked forward to the annual autumn apple-picking trek. Spending warm days in the orchards using long picking poles to pluck only the best apples, competing to find the biggest ones, felt a bit like living in a postcard. A little later in the season,…