AOPA Pilot Magazine
Featured Stories
See the video. Debunking the myth
Senior Editor Dave Hirschman compares flying lean of peak performance in two aircraft and shares his findings.
See the video. Dream machine
Associate Editor Ian J. Twombly gets a bird’s-eye view of the Chesapeake Bay from the Lockwood-designed AirCam.
See the video. Environmental air force.
General aviation helps to protect the environment in myriad missions.
See the video. Flying Friendly
Pilot techniques that can help minimize an airport’s noise footprint.
ISSUE: July 2009
This Month’s Columns
President’s Position
Taking the pulse of opinion leaders.
Letters
Waypoints
Proficient Pilot
Pilotage
License to Learn
Simulating engine-out operations.
Safety Pilot
Pilot Counsel
This Month’s Features
Aircam: Dream Machine
By Ian J. Twombly
A Special Report: GA and the Environment
By Thomas B. Haines
To Protect and Preserve
By Jill W. Tallman
Let’s Go Flying Sweepstakes: Appalachian Spring
Dave Hirschman
Euro-vironment
By Thomas A. Horne
Plant Power
By Dave Hirschman
Frugal Flier: So wrong for so long
By Dave Hirschman
The ‘Blackbirds’: The story of the first all-black aerobatics team
By Phil Scott
Turbine Pilot: Whoa, Hoss!
By Peter A. Bedell
Technique: Instinctive response
By Dan Namowitz
Online Exclusives
Reporting Points
Join AOPA Pilot editors as they travel and report on general aviation. Read their journal entries in “Reporting Points.” But don’t let them do all the writing. Here’s your chance to share your own stories and comments with the editors.
AOPA Pilot—Then and Now
For more than five decades, AOPA Pilot has been the voice of general aviation and chronicled the industry, the events, the people, and the airplanes. Come along on a digital journey and flip through Pilot’s first edition, the March 1958 issue, as if you have the original paper copy in your hands; then let the March 2008 fiftieth anniversary edition come to life with videos and links throughout the pages.
AOPA 2009 Let’s Go Flying Sweepstakes
New year, new sweepstakes. The Let’s Go Flying Cirrus SR22 will crisscross North America in 2009 to highlight the tremendous utility of general aviation.
Turbine Aircraft Directory
See a listing and specifications for single-pilot turbine aircraft.
A Day in the Life of America's Airports
Celebrate general aviation's greatest resource and experience a typical Saturday at 11 different types of GA airports across America. See what happened as chronicled by AOPA Pilot's team of writers and photographers, and AOPA member-submitted photo essays.
Never Again Online
"Never Again" is one of the most widely read sections AOPA Pilot. It's presented to allow pilots to learn from the experiences of others. Read a previously unpublished "Never Again" lesson each month on AOPA Online.
