Flying Mag $5 year

German guy said:
Are you sure? In the mail I received, they said that it will be $10 if I send them a check or $2 less if I order online - that's how I found the above website.
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Yessir, positive. My bill said + $2 S&H. It does not matter to me, I just thougt the whole $50 "credit adjustment" scam was funny. :)
 
Clark1961 said:
prolly the same as the freebie AOPA & Avemco hats: painter's hats worth about $0.50...
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I signed up, I'll let you know as soon as I get it.

I was disappointed looking in the photo that it's got a button on top. I got a really nice hat from the EAA for Christmas that I love. No button on top!
 
Hat buttons are not structural. Couple of minutes wrestling with dykes and your nub is gone.
 
I've been reading Flying since the days of Gill Robb Wilson. I dropped it for awhile since the subscription price seemed to be getting out of hand at one point but in 2006 started getting the $5/year offers and picked it back up. I'm currently paid up for several years @ $8/yr. Garrison alone is worth the subscription. Anybody read his piece in last August's issue "The Importance of Being Lost"? It's online if you Google it.

> "Bax was simply the best, and Len Morgan a close #2."

Agree that Morgan was great. Bax however died of dementia that was apparent, at least to me, from the first time I came across his cornpone crap. He actually made me nauseous and was the only Flying writer I actually couldn't read . . . there was nothing there except comfort food babbling. Even when he was dead they wouldn't let him die . . . endless "tributes" of one kind or another that seemed to never end . . . I guess it sold magazines, dunno. Just thinking about him and his Texas drivel makes me want to throw up.

I didn't know Richard Collins was still writing. He really knows his stuff and I've read much of it although have found a lot of it really a chore to get through - especially his weather writing. A lot of it sunk in nevertheless. I too was bothered by his scrapping of his P-210 but now understand why, thanks to Henning.

The EAA magazine lost me a long time ago. I still get AOPA Pilot but like some others here who have mentioned it, find it repetitive and uninteresting except for Shiff and the odd article. It ends up lying mostly unread in various places around the house or on the backseat.

This morning sitting on the pot I was reading the review (current Flying) on the new Embraer 500 and the reviewer just about strangled on all the superlatives he was throwing around. Going to the little box with the actual specs on the plane seemed to contradict all his enthusiasm . . . perfect example of plane porn. Gorgeous cockpit though . . .

In addition to Garrison's articles, Flying is usually full of an interesting mix of airplanes and equipment and their use. Occasional very good articles on procedure. I too enjoy reading about TBM's and Epics and sailplanes and the frequent surprises they come up with. It's not all plane porn by any means. This aviation magazine is still at the top of the chart.

Mike
 
MikeS said:
I've been reading Flying since the days of Gill Robb Wilson.
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I too remember the glory days of Flying magazine -- the soaring poetry of Gill Robb Wilson; the "just-the-facts-Ma'am" reporting of Dick Weeghman; the humor of Frank Kingston Smith; and the early careers of such talents as James Gilbert and Richard Bach. With his innocent awe of flying and insatiable desire to educate himself to become a better pilot, Frank Kingston Smith stoked my passion for flying more than anyone else, rest his soul.

I still have every issue of Flying from September 1960 to the early '90s.

In the late 1990s and early 2000s, however, there were times when I expected the masthead to repeat the words of Capt. Jean-Luc Picard, "Flying an aeroplane with only a single propeller to keep you in the air. Can you imagine that?"

Word has it that it's better now. I hope so.
 
Sorry I was so rough on Baxter yesterday. He was just tedious and boring and took up space and easy enough to avoid. I think why I still remember him so unfondly were what seemed to me endless resuscitations foisted upon the readers by the magazine after he was (finally . . . you never knew . . . even now I don't feel safe from another resuscitation of Baxter) gone.

I remember the Weekend Pilot column well but wasn't enchanted with him either. I was a lot more interested in Bach and Garrison and Gann and Michael Maya Charles and the other really world class writers and thinkers that passed through the corridors of Flying back then. Also Lears and Falcons were a lot more fun to read about than putzing around on the weekend with the wife and kid in a 172. Richard Bach did a piece on getting into CB's at night in an F-84 in Europe that I still remember. Indeed those were the glory days of Flying, and of GA as a whole.

What's your plan on the Flying collection? It ought to go to an archive somewhere. My many stacks of aviation mags over the years got dumped at various flight schools but yours is a valuable collection I would think.
 
For me, FLYING is worth the subscription price just to read Martha Lunken. Her view is pragmatic, particularly for someone who has been on the FAA side of things, and her commentary is irreverent and intelligent.

Sounds like someone who could be either your best friend or worst enemy, depending...
 
Flying magazine has always been a rag for pipe smoking Jaguar driving snobs of the air.
 
kyleb said:
For me, FLYING is worth the subscription price just to read Martha Lunken..
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Yup, I am paying $8 per year or thereabouts just to read her. If anything else happens to be good that month, it's gravy, but at that price I am satisfied just with Martha.
 
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