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Light Sport Cross Country Flying: Let’s Go!
My wife Nancy and I got our Flight Design CTLS in August 2008, and since then we have made two, Thanksgiving with the family, trips to San Diego, CA and back to our home in Pensacola, Fl. In addition, we have flown many other XC trips to TX, VA, NC. LA, AL, GA, and FL and other places to visit family and friends. However, during trips, we continue to be surprised at the number of people we meet who ...

Age has no limits when learning to pilot the skies
Published: Monday, July 12, 2010

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By RICHARD PAYERCHIN rpayerchin@MorningJournal.com

NEW RUSSIA TOWNSHIP — A local flight company wants to find people who have their heads stuck in the clouds.

Learning to fly an airplane takes time and effort, but is well worth it, said three area pilots who work with ...

This isn't just a cool video. It's the final landings of something very special. Exactly 100 years after the birth of Swiss Aviation, two friends decided to honor aviators of the past with an around-the-world odyssey...

...and what pilot doesn't at least toy with the idea of flying around the world? It's been done before and it'll be done again, but I think it's an impressive accomplishment every ...

LSA Powerplants and Ownership
June 28, 2010

A Rotax 912S is installed on a popular LSA (cowling removed).
Let's have a little quiz. Ready? Four powerplant brands serve the Light-Sport Aircraft industry (well, not including the engine developed by CubCrafters... that's another story). Click to see them all. Most LSA use either Rotax, Continental, Jabiru, or Lycoming, with the popularity of these engines in roughly that order. *** So, here's the quiz: Which one of these ...

I found it interesting that about the time I left my dipstick at fuel stop in California that the “dipstick topic” showed up on the forum.

Of course the first thing I did was call FD and ask first “if they had them” and second “how much are they”. “Yes, they had them in stock” and “they are eighty bucks”. Well of course I fell off my chair and went about figuring out a way around it thinking that’s a pretty stiff price for a dipstick!

Then I thought about it for a ...