Flying

by Hachette Magazines, Inc.

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Sales Rank:409 (lower is better)
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Release Date:2001-11-23
Label:Hachette Magazines, Inc.
Binding:Magazine
Published By:Hachette Magazines, Inc.
ASIN:B00007AXEP
Category:Magazine

Editorial Reviews and Product Descriptions

Product Description

This magazine's editorial focus is for general aviation-active pilots and aircraft owners. Its articles provide evaluation reports on technical and mechanical aspects of flying, AA and industry news and information on flight safety and piloting business airplanes.

Customer Reviews

Average aviation rag. - Reviewed on 2008-10-25
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I have had this magazine for well over 20 years. It does a good job of reviewing new airplanes, however it concentrates on the high end planes, and gives a good, but small, coverage of the latest (month old) aviation news. It also gives some touchy feely articles on flying from the corporate, private, technical, and professional aspect.

I believe it is lacking in in-depth coverage of future systems, long term reviews of airplanes, and also, long term upgrades of older airplanes. When they do cover used airplanes, it is not in-depth like the new airplanes and they do not go into third party vendors for additional items as much as I would like.

Overall, it is a good magazine, not great. I would still recommend it for one year to see if you like it also.

PS - If you read it enough, I get the impression that they are overly conservative on safety yet in real life, I believe they fly normally.
Where is it? - Reviewed on 2005-08-06
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9 customers found this review not to be helpful.
I ordered this magazine at the end of june. We are at the beginning of August and I still haven't seen it.
A Standard for Aviation Journalism - Reviewed on 2002-12-14
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1 customer found this review helpful, 8 did not.

What can I say? This magazine is the gold standard for popular aviation journalism.
Gold standard for General Aviation - Reviewed on 2002-04-21
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12 customers found this review helpful.

Flying magazine sets a gold standard for general aviation magazines. It is not perfect -- the maybe cozy relationship with advertisers, it's hard to do one thing perfectly when you cover such a large subject, airline pilots detect a bias against big iron, sometimes it is a little too glossy -- but it covers the whole world of piston and personal airplane flying.

In the past, Len Morgan and Richard Bach and Ernie Gann and many others wrote for Flying. Right now, for my money, the best writers are Lane Wallace and Peter Garrison. With Flying, you get them every month. For private pilots, the only magazine that directly compares is the excellent AOPA Pilot, but you will get that magazine if you join AOPA. The best way to get Flying is to subscribe, as it's a huge savings over buying it retail. If you are not sure it's for you, go buy one at the supermarket or bookstore and then come back and subscribe for a year.

AirlineBiz.Com Magazine Review - Reviewed on 2001-11-06
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1 customer found this review helpful, 8 did not.

Great magazine for private and professional pilots.
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