AOPA Pilot Magazine - Turbine Edition

By Rob Mark

When the Lockheed Jetstar and the North American Sabreliner first appeared as military jet transports in the late 1950s, the de Havilland Aircraft Company in Hatfield, England, knew they’d need a jet of their own to compete in the emerging business aviation marketplace.

By J. Mac McClellan

Many pilots establish personal minimums for their flying. Good idea. But a better one is to develop your own FRAT—flight risk assessment tool.

By Michael Maya Charles

The barren, imposing mountains in the Holy Cross Wilderness Area northeast of Aspen, Colorado, are steep and unforgiving, the kind of place where the winds are told what to do more by terrain than by the movement of pressure systems that whistle across their ridge tops, many above 13,000 feet; the kind of place you wouldn’t want to have an engine failure in your heavily loaded single-engine airplane.

By Ken Fielding

Art Dykstra has had an amazing career filled with interesting and generous people, unique aircraft, and challenging missions.

By Doug Magill

“Cessna One-Niner-Two-Niner Foxtrot cleared touch-and-go Runway Six Right.”

By Alexander Sack

You’re constantly being told that having personal minimums is an essential part of every preflight. But what you probably haven’t been told is that establishing them is a lot harder than you think.

By Ryan King

The FAA’s compliance program requires a pilot to be “willing and cooperative.” The FAA’s typical approach to inadvertent noncompliance is to use a compliance action: an informal process of identifying and fixing the root cause in lieu of an enforcement action.