AOPA Pilot Magazine - Turbine Edition

By J. Mac McClellan

Bill Lear largely ignored the aviation establishment to create the original Lear Jet. When it came to weight limitations, he did a better job of describing at least one limit.

By Rob Mark

In the early twenty-first century, when a Cessna 182 comes factory equipped to fly an automated GPS-based approach to an airport that doesn’t have a single antenna on the ground, it might seem like ancient history to even talk about the precision manual control needed to fly an ILS approach.

By Rob Mark

It’s funny how relationships begin. Meeting some special person by chance, being unable to close your back door on a lost kitten that wandered by, or being introduced to a machine that you simply can’t forget.

By David Weisman

In November 1986, my father and I, along with two family friends and their dog, embarked on our annual trip to my grandmother’s house for Thanksgiving in my father’s 1964 Cessna 182.

By Kevin Knight

Twenty years ago, I bought a Mooney Executive M20F because its Lycoming IO-360 engine had separate magnetos. I really wanted a newer, faster, structurally identical Mooney M20J. Unfortunately, its version of the IO-360 featured a Bendix dual magneto that made me nervous. Here’s why.