Five Ways to Fly for Free

Perhaps the greatest challenge to future professional pilots is overcoming the financial hurdle inherent in flight training. According to recent estimates, a private pilot’s license in 2010 will cost between eight to ten thousand dollars, with the commercial pilot certificate topping out at forty to sixty thousand! The dirty little secret...

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Phoenix Air Special LSA

Phoenix Air USA imports the beautiful Phoenix Special Light-Sport Aircraft, a performance motorglider that can cruise swiftly and serve both functions with excellent creature comfort. Given its clever wing extension design, you get two aircraft in one!

Is Phoenix an especially smooth and graceful LSA cruiser, or an efficient motorglider affording an easy ride to thermal lift and soaring play? Happily, the answer is....

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How realistic should impossible turn practice be?

Last month, I practiced Barry Schiff’s maneuver for the impossible turn at altitude and recorded it on AOPA Live. As expected, many pilots wrote in offering their own advice.

The most common suggestion was to make the practice maneuver more realistic. Schiff recommended turning 270 degrees and noting the altitude loss. That’s because in a real emergency, a pilot is going to...

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Listing of Special Light Sport Airplanes

For the following aircraft, EAA has received a copy of the airworthiness certificate (FAA form 8130-7) verifying that the company has received at least one Special Light-Sport Aircraft (S-LSA) airworthiness certificate.

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Miscommunication leads to a CFI and a student pilot wrestling for control

General Aviation News will often reprint excerpts from the USA’s National Transportation Safety Board, include a June 2009 report about an incident involving a flight instructor and a student pilot that occurred in a Challenger II aircraft in Moses Lakes, Washington.

According to the accident report...

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What do you avoid?

For many of us summer brings longer stints of flying weather. The spring rains give way to the typical summer days with calm wind and clear mornings followed by hazy, hot and humid (and usually still flyable) afternoons. This time of year is a popular time for people to re-enter the cockpit and begin flying again. For others of us, it’s a good time to regain currency and/or confidence by logging some summer hours.

So here’s the question: As you look ....

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Always Wanted to Fly?

We Share Airplanes is focused on sharing the great value of flying and learning to fly, using the new breed of Light Sport Airplanes (LSA).

These planes can comfortably whisk two people away for adventure and sightseeing at more than 100 MPH. Designed for flying in good weather the training requirements put these planes in reach of any person who has ever dreamed of flight. You can qualify in just for a SportPilot Certificate with just 20 hours of training.