From The Editor: Snapped Out Of Complacency
On a recent flight from Los Angeles to Dallas, I was nearing a pit stop in Albuquerque when the radio …
Jeff Berlin
Cirrus Perspective
 When the engineers at Cirrus Skunk Works branded the company’s Garmin-based, next-generation glass-panel system, Codename Fighter, the moniker was more apropos than they might have thought. |
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Contact: Functional Beauty
The other evening, I was flipping through the channels looking for something to watch on TV when I landed on …
From The Editor: First Passengers
There are few things as rewarding for new pilots as flying with their first passenger. I know that was true …
From The Editor: Cars & Planes
About a year ago, I was driving north on the 405, a freeway in Los Angeles that’s usually a …
From The Editor: Sticktuitiveness
Not long ago, I was flying commercial from LAX to Boston Logan. As I settled into my seat in the …
Ciao, Avanti
It’s almost too easy to call the Italian Avanti II the Ferrari of the skies, and from the moment I floored the Avanti this morning on a wintry runway in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.
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From The Editor: Simmer Down
I was looking forward to a much needed weekend on Martha’s Vineyard, away from the city and the noise …
From The Editor: GA Popularity Contest
When I was a kid in grade school, I had this friend named Jonathan Meyer. His dad was a minister …
Cirrus SR22-G3: Brazil Or Bust!
Wow, now that’s a lot of trees. I’m 9,500 feet over the Amazon rain forest, and the only thing I see from horizon to horizon is a bumpy carpet that’s toned British-racing green. A couple days ago, I set off from the Cirrus plant in Duluth, Minn., for what was then a distant port, pointing the nose of this spanking-new Cirrus SR22-G3 south and saying to myself, as I climbed to my initial cruise altitude, “São Paulo or bust.”
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