Pilot Magazine

17/02/2025

Check out Pilot’s review of From Zero to Forty-Five by Lee Masterson, featured in the March issue – out now! Fast becoming a top gift in Air Sports on Amazon, it’s a must-read for pilots and anyone interested in learning to fly. A great gift for aviation enthusiasts.

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30/01/2025

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DH60 Gipsy Moth is the cover star of the March 2025 issue of Pilot magazine. Alexander Norman reports from the cockpit on the de Havilland design that launched private flying in Britain and around the world 100 years ago.

Meanwhile, a private pilot gets to fly the legendary F-16 with the Royal Danish Air Force, and besides the inevitable airsickness, the adventure turns out to be nothing short of a dream. Plus, there’s a first look at Pelegrin Tarragon where we fly the sleek Lithuanian-made two-seater, which proves to be simultaneously a great cruiser and a nimble aircraft for fun flying.

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02/01/2025

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February 2025 issue of Pilot magazine features the Stinson L-5 Sentinel as its cover star. Deployed extensively alongside its WWII US Army ‘grasshopper’ stablemates yet rare today, the relatively high-performance, fine handling L-5 is something of a forgotten warbird.

Also featured is Living in a Porter Pilot’s Paradise. Tyro pilot Matt Dearden left anxiety behind in discovering Shangri-La, escaped to return to the UK and is now passing his skills on to a new generation of pilots while Flying Adventure sees Colin Goodwin and his wife, Amelia, enjoy eight days of guided mountain flying and beach landings in New Zealand amid some of the most spectacular scenery on Earth.

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23/12/2024

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05/12/2024

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The cover of the January 2025 issue of Pilot magazine features the Bristell Taildragger. Deleting the tricycle undercarriage nosewheel and fitting a tailwheel makes the lovely Bristell kitplane/Light Sport Aircraft even nicer – and better suited to strip flying.

Also featured is a day in the life of an A350 captain when Mawgan Grace takes a seat alongside the flight crew in the cockpit of a Cathay Pacific A350 for a long-haul trip from New York to Hong Kong. Plus, there’s a first look at CubCrafters’ Carbon Cub UL which sees Super Cub made Ultra Cub – and potentially a UK microlight with STOL performance to spare.

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18/11/2024

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08/11/2024

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07/11/2024

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December 2024 issue of Pilot magazine features a newly restored Mk IX Spitfire as its cover star. Stefan Löfgren took to the Norwegian skies with former SAS pilot colleague and one of Europe’s most experienced warbird pilots, Rolf Meum, to fly the impressive two-seater aircraft.

In Flight Test, it’s back to the future in the weird and wonderful VariEze. The quirky but high-performing and efficient design that brought composite structures to homebuilt aircraft still looks sensational today, almost half a century after it first appeared. Plus, extensive tips and strategies are discussed in a feature devoted to engine failures after take-off (EFATO).

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16/10/2024

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10/10/2024

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The November 2024 issue of Pilot magazine features two flight tests on its cover: Great Lakes 2T-1A-2 and Socata Rallye Minerva 220.

A classic American open-cockpit biplane, the Great Lakes is such a fun aircraft that it had to be put back in production. Meanwhile, the Rallye might not be the sexiest aeroplane around, but the four-seat tourer has a great view from the cockpit and real STOL capabilities. For our flight test, we fly the Minerva 220 version, originally developed for the US market.

Also featured is The Rallye Story. In this history by our French correspondent Alain Mathon, we look at the story of this iconic aircraft, which had very humble beginnings - and was originally designed for a competition from which it was eliminated.

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13/09/2024

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The October 2024 issue of Pilot magazine features a flight test of the only Rearwin Sportster in the UK as its cover star. The ‘bread and butter’ model in the US manufacturer’s 1930s line of aircraft is perhaps among a dozen to survive in airworthy condition.

Also inside, a private pilot and photographer looks back over 50 years of searching out opportunities for unusual flights around the globe, and a day at RAF Cranwell with the UK Military Flying Training System’s instructors, in a Grob 120TP Prefect and on the Phenom 100 simulator, reveals how the modern military pilot learns to fly.

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06/09/2024

Great news for the former RAF Scampton as the Home Office withdraws its intentions to use the site as asylum seeker accommodation:
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31/08/2024

Bicester Motion makes public its plans for a new karting track in the 98 year old hangar:

ABOVE: From wings to wheels – aircraft are no longer welcome inside the 98 year old hangar Bicester Motion – the classic car company at Oxfordshire’s Bicester Aerodrome – has unveiled its plans to build an electric go-kart track inside Hangar 137, which all resident aircraft were ousted from...

22/08/2024

Motion to host the UK's first trial vertiport:

ABOVE: Construction of the test facility will start in October Bicester airfield has received the green light to build the UK’s first vertiport testbed for the electric ‘flying taxi’ industry, with Cherwell District Council authorising the upcoming electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL)...

15/08/2024

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September 2024 issue of Pilot magazine’s cover star is the Ferrari of the skies - Italian designer Stelio Frati’s legendary masterpiece, the superlative SF.260.

Plus, find out how a modern Airbus pilot discovers there is nothing – absolutely nothing – half so much worth doing as simply messing about in old biplanes, immersing himself in the magic and beauty of a 1940s Renault-engined Stampe SV.4C.

Also, discover how a furloughed BA pilot turned downtime to opportunity to become a specialist aircraft dealer and get the General Aviation angle on this year’s Farnborough International Airshow, which proved to be more of a promotion platform for eVTOL aircraft and other ‘green’ machines and power plants.

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18/07/2024

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The August 2024 issue of Pilot takes a first look at the Piper M700 Fury. The latest turboprop M is all about speed, sophistication and safety.

Pilot Profile focuses on Katherine Moloney, founder of Elevate(her), who talks about encouraging women in aviation – and the misogyny still to be found in some quarters.

Flight Test features the Auster V J/1-160 Autocrat and one new owner, who ignored all the naysayers, discovers to his pleasure that not all Austers are equal.

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04/07/2024

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