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gprellwitz

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If you don't mind giving away some information to marketers in exchange for a free subscription, you can pick up a 1-year subscription to Flying! magazine here: http://www.mercurymagazines.com/pr1/101/101300

Flying! still has Lane Wallace and some other worthwhile content.
For example, she just wrote this beautiful story that brought a smile to my face.

Update: It appears that you can no longer select Flying! Magazine, so move along, nothing to see here!
 
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Not much worth reading in Flying since Dick Collins retired, IMO.

Dr. Whiney Dick and his, "Poor me, I can't afford a jet" thing was, well, just whiney.

So if Flying is free now, does that mean Plane & Pilot will start paying subscribers? :D


Trapper John
 
Well, I just tried it and, after giving out my information, it refused to let me select Flying.
 
Me either; was hoping the "unselected but grayed out" Flying was "implicitly selected" but at the end of the thing it only showed me being subscribed to ComputerWorld (made me pick something). Wonder if I can cancel that?
 
LOL what's more useless. Computerworld or Flying Magazine
 
Well, when I first looked it said that there were limited quantities available. Maybe that limit is really low! :)

And Trapper, I prefer Lane for her writing of the joys of flying over Collins' dry technical prose.
 
Ted DuPuis said:
Well, I just tried it and, after giving out my information, it refused to let me select Flying.
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The system scanned your bank account and other assets and determined that you cannot afford to buy and operate a new jet. Since the editorial content and advertising of that magazine would therefore be totally irrelevant to you, and you are cluttering up their sky with your little gasoline-powered prop job (probably without even a G1000, TCAS or Brazilian granite countertop in the lav), you were summarily disqualified. :nono:
 
Pilawt said:
The system scanned your bank account and other assets and determined that you cannot afford to buy and operate a new jet. Since the editorial content and advertising of that magazine would therefore be totally irrelevant to you, and you are cluttering up their sky with your little gasoline-powered prop job (probably without even a G1000, TCAS or Brazilian granite countertop in the lav), you were summarily disqualified. :nono:
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Come on now, go back and read that article I linked to at the top and come back and tell me how it aligns with your characterization.
 
gprellwitz said:
Come on now, go back and read that article I linked to at the top and come back and tell me how it aligns with your characterization.
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OK, so I exaggerated. A little. :D

I hadn't seen that article by Lane (yes, it is good, and she owns a Cheetah, so what's not to like?). But I don't pick up Flying at the newsstand if there's a turbine on the cover, so it's been a while. :frown2:
 
Pilawt said:
OK, so I exaggerated. A little. :D

I hadn't seen that article by Lane (yes, it is good, and she owns a Cheetah, so what's not to like?). But I don't pick up Flying at the newsstand if there's a turbine on the cover, so it's been a while. :frown2:
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Don't have them in front of me right now, but I suspect you're right.

OTOH, in addition to Lane, they have Martha Lunken.

And their editors tend to own the same planes we do:
Mark Phelps: 1954 V-tail Bonanza
Martha Lunken: 1956 Cessna 180, half of a J-3 Cub
Dick Karl: Cheyenne I
Les Abend: well, don't think he owns, and he flies for the airlines.
Peter Garrison: built Melmoth 2
Jay Hopkins: doesn't own, but flies a G-1000 182T for CAP
Russell Munson: Aviat Husky 2006 A-1B-180
Tom Benenson: 1976 Cardinal RG
Robert Goyer: PlaneSmart Cirrus SR22
Lane Wallace: 1977 Grumman Cheetah
J. Mac McLellan: Beech Baron
Richard Collins: I know he sold his P210. Didn't he buy a Diamond DA-40?

Okay, they're a little more on the utility/IFR side of things, but certainly not exclusively.
 
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I received a complementary year subscription to Flying magazine once. I felt I had been overcharged. However, it was very generous of Grant to point out access to a free subscription, as it might serve others better than I.
 
Before the Baron, Mac had a Bo, a Mooney and a Cessna 140. Dick Collins had a 172, a C-Six and a number of others. If you had been publishing a wide-spectrum GA mag for the past few years, how many new piston airplanes would you have been able to feature on the cover?

Even the B students should have figured out by now that there are only so many things to write about and all the mags rotate their articles on a fairly regular and predicatable schedule, and they all require ~90-day lead times for publication. If you don't like one of the magazines, buy those you like better. If you want breaking news, the monthly rags aren't the place to get it.

Here's the Flying cover story and featured article summary for 2008.


Jan. F-51's in formation, Mustang roundup, Rebirth of Aerostar, airline captains as doctors (sick pax)
Feb. Cessna Mustang (any pilot can fly it); Weather map still matters, Cirrus delivery process, Where have the twins gone?
Mar. Matrix; Gulfstream synthetic vision, DC-3, King Air with Garmin 1000
Apr. Caravan, flying a turbo, Trip in Eclipse Air Taxi
May Gulfstream 650, Collins flying scared, aerobatics, diesel Cessnas
Jun King Air w/bigger engines, your next plane?, crosswinds, small-town airshows
Jul Lear 60XR, AOA, Garmin synthetic vision, flying a VLJ
Aug Cirrus & TBM, working with ATC, Martha flys a Lockheed
Sep PC-12, missed approaches, Ercoupes, S-20 makeover
Oct Falcon 7x, Collins final editorial, King Air extra tankage, Cessna 350, 400
Nov Hawker 4000, Martha unusual attitudes, OSH warbirds
Dec Avanti, fuel efficiency, Piper jet update, B/K Handheld navigator.

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Don't have them in front of me right now, but I suspect you're right.

OTOH, in addition to Lane, they have Martha Lunken.

And their editors tend to own the same planes we do:
Mark Phelps: 1954 V-tail Bonanza
Martha Lunken: 1956 Cessna 180, half of a J-3 Cub
Dick Karl: Cheyenne I
Les Abend: well, don't think he owns, and he flies for the airlines.
Peter Garrison: built Melmoth 2
Jay Hopkins: doesn't own, but flies a G-1000 182T for CAP
Russell Munson: Aviat Husky 2006 A-1B-180
Tom Benenson: 1976 Cardinal RG
Robert Goyer: PlaneSmart Cirrus SR22
Lane Wallace: 1977 Grumman Cheetah
J. Mac McLellan: Beech Baron
Richard Collins: I know he sold his P210. Didn't he buy a Diamond DA-40?

Okay, they're a little more on the utility/IFR side of things, but certainly not exclusively.
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Call me wacky, I like Flying. Very high standards for writing, photography is nothing short of stunning.

So they fly stuff I don't get to- it's fun to read about, occasionally to dream about.

That survey thing is a big fib, though- says, "Free subscription to Flying," then does not allow you to select Flying. Urinate on 'em.
 
Flying's standards of accuracy aren't always that good, and they don't always admit it when they're wrong.
 
Where are those rules of monthly trade rag journalism carved into stone? Can't you say the same about the NTSB reports, FAA publications and all the other magazines as well? They all seem to have their issues from time to time. I'm glad I'm not in charge of maintaing fresh content for them. What is the best as-yet unpublished story idea that any of them should jump on right now?

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Flying's standards of accuracy aren't always that good, and they don't always admit it when they're wrong.
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