On 2006-03-15, Kyle Boatright wrote:
My last issue of Flying came in the mail today, and I won't be re-upping the
subscription. In recent years, I've grown more and more reluctant to renew
it, but when it came to crunch time, I went ahead and mailed in my $12.00 or
whatever.

The trouble with 'Flying' I found was it seemed like you were nothing if
it wasn't turbocharged, pressurized or turbine powered. There wasn't
enough of interest to someone with a fixed gear, slow and relatively
inexpensive aircraft. Then the endless repeats of the same weather
related articles every year.

Of course, I'm not against articles about turbine planes or flying them,
but a good general interest GA mag should have a mix. I tend to prefer
'Pilot' magazine (the British one, not AOPA Pilot, although when I lived
in the US and was a member of AOPA there, I found their 'Pilot' mag to
be pretty decent). The UK mag 'Pilot' has quite a lot of good general GA
articles, such as a trip report every month, sometimes articles about
microlights, classic aircraft, helicopters, gliders and other things.
It's not the same old tired used plane report and a bunch of editorial
columns about how the super wealthy editor went flying somewhere in his
P210.

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Dylan Smith, Port St Mary, Isle of Man
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