The Turbine Pilot edition includes all of the stories in AOPA Pilot, plus a few additional articles written specifically for pilots and owners of turbine-powered aircraft. If you fly a turbine aircraft, or will transition into one in the near future, call Member Services at 800-USA-AOPA for more information.
When the hangar doors opened at Dallas Executive Airport’s Commemorative Air Force ramp, the view was breathtaking: Four iconic aircraft roared toward a crowd gathered to celebrate the launch of Breitling’s newest aviation watches.
Checkrides are stressful. Add the uncertainty of weather, the sometimes limited availability of designated pilot examiners, and last-minute maintenance issues, and we wonder how anybody gets a checkride accomplished at all.
Just at the time when the advanced air mobility/urban air mobility (AAM/UAM) groundswell seems to have congealed into some 11 viable designs—those offered by Joby Aviation, Embraer, Lilium, Pipistrel, Bell, Airbus, EHang, Volocopter, and Hyundai—along comes Renault’s AIR4.
Virgil I. Grissom Municipal Airport (BFR) in Bedford, Indiana, lies smack in America’s heartland, where many of our pioneering astronauts were born and raised.