Letting my Flying Subscription Expire

Just my 2 cents worth, but I only had the subscription for 1 year and
didn't renew. The high priced aircraft articles where part of it, but
also it seemed like I was reading articles written by high school
students.
Lou

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.

--
Dylan Smith, Port St Mary, Isle of Man
Flying: http://www.dylansmith.net
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Dylan,

The trouble with 'Flying' I found was it seemed like you were nothing if
it wasn't turbocharged, pressurized or turbine powered.


and weather downlink. Each and every single article and column mentions
how great it is.

--
Thomas Borchert (EDDH)

"Thomas Borchert" wrote:


The trouble with 'Flying' I found was it seemed like you were nothing if
it wasn't turbocharged, pressurized or turbine powered.


and weather downlink. Each and every single article and column mentions
how great it is.

Perhaps they are overdoing it, but it would be hard to overestimate how
revolutionary this technology will be for light GA flying in the U. S.

I can see how the topic might be less than fascinating for European readers,
though.

--
Dan
C-172RG at BFM

and weather downlink. Each and every single article and column mentions
how great it is.

Perhaps they are overdoing it, but it would be hard to overestimate how
revolutionary this technology will be for light GA flying in the U. S.

Hey Dan, I was able to use the XM weather feature extensively on our
flight to Las Vegas (on Jim Burns' new tablet computer), and it was
awesome.

One glitch: In the turbulence like we ran into, I found I could not
look at it, for fear of losing my cookies. Trying to click the screen
with the stylus, while looking down, while floating on your seat belt,
was a real exercise in inner-ear/hand-eye coordination.

In this regard, your 396 would be vastly superior, with dedicated
buttons, mounted up on the yoke (rather than in your lap). In ever
other way, however, that huge screen weather depiction was simply
fabulous.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

On 23 Mar 2006 21:21:23 -0800, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:

and weather downlink. Each and every single article and column mentions
how great it is.

Perhaps they are overdoing it, but it would be hard to overestimate how
revolutionary this technology will be for light GA flying in the U. S.

Hey Dan, I was able to use the XM weather feature extensively on our
flight to Las Vegas (on Jim Burns' new tablet computer), and it was
awesome.

One glitch: In the turbulence like we ran into, I found I could not
look at it, for fear of losing my cookies. Trying to click the screen
with the stylus, while looking down, while floating on your seat belt,
was a real exercise in inner-ear/hand-eye coordination.

In this regard, your 396 would be vastly superior, with dedicated
buttons, mounted up on the yoke (rather than in your lap). In ever
other way, however, that huge screen weather depiction was simply
fabulous.

Does the tablet have a hard drive and does the processor cache things
to disk? Does it do seeks for new data when it can't update a page
from the current buffer? Do other programs access the disk while the
nav program is running? I was idly wondering the other day about
head crashes due to turbulence. Any thoughts?

Don

Don

"Jay Honeck" wrote:

and weather downlink. Each and every single article and column mentions
how great it is.

Perhaps they are overdoing it, but it would be hard to overestimate how
revolutionary this technology will be for light GA flying in the U. S.

Hey Dan, I was able to use the XM weather feature extensively on our
flight to Las Vegas (on Jim Burns' new tablet computer), and it was
awesome.

One glitch: In the turbulence like we ran into, I found I could not
look at it, for fear of losing my cookies. Trying to click the screen
with the stylus, while looking down, while floating on your seat belt,
was a real exercise in inner-ear/hand-eye coordination.

Roger that. I used to use a notebook pc for XM Wx. It was a pain in the
ass at the best of times and a hazard in turbulence.

In this regard, your 396 would be vastly superior, with dedicated
buttons, mounted up on the yoke (rather than in your lap). In ever
other way, however, that huge screen weather depiction was simply
fabulous.

Yeah, I'd like a little bigger screen--which I'm sure Garmin has in the
works to absorb more of my money in a year or two. Still, I love the the
396. It is now a go/no go item for me if CBs are any more than isolated.
Can't imagine how I ever flew without it.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM

IMHO, Flying was a good magazine, back in the '60s and '70s, when it
featured articles by Robert Blodgett , Archie Tramell, John Olcott and
Stephen Wilkinson. The articles written today have little to offer.
"Kyle Boatright" wrote in message
. ..
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. Not this year, though. In all honesty, I don't remember the
last
article or column in Flying that made me want to go back and re-read the
article. Instead, the magazine arrives and I spend an hour or so breezing
through it, then it goes into the trash can, leaving me wondering what I
missed.

Once upon a time, I subscribed to 4 or 5 aviation magazines and enjoyed
them
all. Now I'm only taking two aviation related mag's - Sport Aviation and
AOPA Pilot, and both of them are member benefits from their sponsor
organizations. I have a tremendous interest in aviation and love to read,
so why don't the aviation magazines interest me anymore? Have the
magazines changed? Is it me? Is it that the subject matter is finite and
after reading 20 years worth of aviation magazines, there is very little
left that is new and interesting to me?

Anyway, it is sad in a way that there isn't an aviation magazine that
interests me enough that I'll spend $12 or $15 a year for a subscription.

KB

OK, I'm going to go out on a limb here. I really like Flying. I believe it's
one of the few aviation magazines that actually has some balls to form an
opinion. I get tired of the aircraft and avionics reviews that are little
more than a regurgitation of a brochure. I also really enjoy their columns
on living with aviation. My favorite columnist is Lane Wallace but I also
like the way each of the others offer their own perspectives on how aviation
fits into their lives. Dick Karl most closely resembles my view of the
ultimate aviation situation (for my life anyway).

I like details too. For example, the latest issue had a feature on the Beech
Bonanza G36. The detailed account of the new Garmin autopilot operational
modes was a refreshing change from the other mags I subscribe to. And I
subscribe to practically all--Flying, Plane & Pilot, Pilot Journal, IFR, IFR
Refresher, Aviation Consumer, GA News, Trade-A-Plane, Aviation Safety, and
AOPA Pilot. I read every one of them cover-to-cover (except TAP of course)
thanks to a one hour+ commute on the train each way to Manahattan.

Richard Collins and Mac McClellan may **** some people off but they at least
take a stand on a subject or have a real opinion. Are Mac's articles on the
latest biz jet a bit out of my league? Sure it is but I'm sure it appeals to
others and the larger audience enables its low subscription price. Collins
sometimes sounds like he's high on himself but he's also the first to admit
he screwed-up so he deserves some respect for that.

For less than $10 a year, I think it's a bargain.

Marco "information junkie" Leon

"Kyle Boatright" wrote in message
. ..
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. Not this year, though. In all honesty, I don't remember the
last
article or column in Flying that made me want to go back and re-read the
article. Instead, the magazine arrives and I spend an hour or so breezing
through it, then it goes into the trash can, leaving me wondering what I
missed.

Once upon a time, I subscribed to 4 or 5 aviation magazines and enjoyed
them
all. Now I'm only taking two aviation related mag's - Sport Aviation and
AOPA Pilot, and both of them are member benefits from their sponsor
organizations. I have a tremendous interest in aviation and love to read,
so why don't the aviation magazines interest me anymore? Have the
magazines changed? Is it me? Is it that the subject matter is finite and
after reading 20 years worth of aviation magazines, there is very little
left that is new and interesting to me?

Anyway, it is sad in a way that there isn't an aviation magazine that
interests me enough that I'll spend $12 or $15 a year for a subscription.

KB










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I like it too, and I find it a good bargain.
I get AOPA and Flying, and appreciate them both.
I like Collins because of his statistical presentation, which I find sound.
And I still think a flight test and review of the latest Gulfstream holds its
own against yet another single-engine 110Kt tin bird.

GF


In article , mmleonatyahoo.com says...


OK, I'm going to go out on a limb here. I really like Flying. I believe it's
one of the few aviation magazines that actually has some balls to form an
opinion. etc