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Someone on another fourm linked to a Flying Magazine announcement about the "recently published" 12th edition of the Chart Users' Guide. The article (link) is dated two days ago. The 12th edition of the guide was published in October, 2013.

I'm still laughing.
 
labbadabba said:
Not really digging their new format online or in print.
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Me either. Change isn't always good, especially for us old farts. And I am bored w/ Les Bend's columns, and about there with the good Doc's. Garrison and Martha I do like (even if she did trash OSH). At least she speaks mainly of GA.
 
Quit reading that rag years ago. Have they put a glass panel in a hot air balloon yet? Would have thought they would have run out of airplanes to show a new panel in by now.
 
Not crazy about the mag,any more.
 
I think they're gearing it down for the shorter attention span folks. I do like the Doc, though - he writes well, and hey, if he's a rich guy, he earned it. Peter Garrison, I read every word he writes, in any forum. I miss Bax, but Martha is cool. Flying has been a constant for me - there's a picture of me asleep in my high school yearbook, chin down on Flying. That was many decades ago. . . I remember when Aftermath was Pilot Error. . .the new format is a bit scatter-shot, with less depth (but not always).
 
You know, I bought a book with a collection of his articles, Bax Seat, and the second one (Bax Seat 2? or More Bax Seat?) and enjoyed them. Ten years later I picked them up again. For some reason the columns seemed strained the second time around, as if he was trying too hard to be a curmudgeon, so what worked in writing about flying twenty years ago doesn't work today. Flying has changed, but it still beats any of the others.
 
tinerj said:
... what worked in writing about flying twenty years ago doesn't work today. Flying has changed, but it still beats any of the others.
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I have subscribed to Flying since I soloed, several decades ago. When they went with new "Cosmopolitan" format recently, I had a hard time getting through a single article, the format was so distracting. Hilarious. I notice they are toning it down a little, not using 8 colors and 17 fonts on the same page like they were at first. +1 for P. Garrison's articles, never disappoint. I notice in my last issue, Pia is putting what looks like a $40K panel in a Mooney that no doubt cost considerably less... she probably gets a discount, though.

Robert Goyer (a former Flying editor-in-chief) is doing a pretty good job at Plane and Pilot, where he just took over editing duties. Better than the old P&P, kind of like Flying used to be.
 
midlifeflyer said:
Someone on another fourm linked to a Flying Magazine announcement about the "recently published" 12th edition of the Chart Users' Guide. The article (link) is dated two days ago. The 12th edition of the guide was published in October, 2013.

I'm still laughing.
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"recently published" for the FAA is relative. When their "Advanced Avionics" has a publish date of 2009, one wonders if that was the date it was commissioned or really published. It would seem to me that each one of these (https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/) could be updated with new versions yearly.
Like the FAA, did Flying have this sitting on the shelf waiting to fill out a magazine copy and just didn't get around to it?
 
One of their columnist, after developing health problems(probably can no longer be an airline pilot) and his Pacer needed a new engine sold, sold his plane and house. He bought a boat and him and his wife are going to sale around the world. Martha Lunken, another long time columnist, had several recent incidents that cause the FAA to demand a flight checkout of her designated pilot examiner status. Ever notice how most of the columnist in Flying have gray hair? I am age 70 but have you noticed what percentage of articles feature older people. You could say that it takes many years to accumulate enough wealth to fly or you could say that private flying is declining just like it already has in Great Britain - hope not.
 
I think that guy is young-ish, and got his medical sorted out pretty quick, and is flying for pay. Their gonna sail the carribean, and he's gonna commute to work; I think he's with a regional, perhaps?
 
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