Pilot Magazine

17/07/2025

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✔️Pilatus PC-7 is the cover star of the August 2025 issue of Pilot. Powerful, fast and aerobatic, the turboprop PC-7 is the perfect aircraft if you want to feel (a bit) like you’re in a WWII fighter. Find out more in our Flight Test feature.

✔️Meanwhile, US correspondent Don Peterson takes his Mooney M20 back to the challenging Caribbean airport of St Barthes/St Barts, infamous for mishandled downhill landings ending up with an excursion onto the beach – or even into the sea.

✔️In our Flying Adventure feature ‘The Jester, The Doctor and The Auster’, find out how ferrying ‘The Doctor’s’ old Auster to Croatia turns out to be a memorable adventure, with hazards like oil leaks and horses crossing the runway, but also beautiful views along the way.

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17/07/2025

CubCrafters offering payload increase for Super Cubs
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CubCrafters has launched a Supplemental Type Certificate (STC) to increase the gross weight of the Piper PA-18 Super Cub to 1,043kg. Originally obtained in 2007 and updated in 2012, this STC was primarily used internally within the company, but is now offered to the broader market for more Super Cub...

12/07/2025

FTEJerez to open UK base at Oxford
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ABOVE: FTEJerez’s new UK facility will be based at London Oxford Airport Commercial pilot training academy FTEJerez has confirmed the opening of a new UK base at London Oxford Airport (LOA), with contracts already signed and operations scheduled to commence late summer 2025. The company says the e...

04/07/2025

Bell celebrates 6,000th Canadian aircraft
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Bell Helicopter recently celebrated the 6,000th commercial aircraft built at Bell Textron’s Canada Centre. The milestone machine was one of two Bell 412EPXs ordered by the Sûreté du Québec. Bell will deliver the aircraft to the Ministère des Transports et de la Mobilité durable, which manages...

30/06/2025

Vertical to go hybrid
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ABOVE: The hybrid power unit will be installed in the existing VX4 airframe It appears that some developers of numerous electric Vertical Take-Off and Landing (eVTOL) aircraft projects are reaching the conclusion that current battery technology isn’t sufficient to power their proposed aircraft and...

28/06/2025

Supersonic flight to be allowed over US land?
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ABOVE: Boom Aerospace is developing ‘quiet technologies’ to address sonic boom problems Lawmakers in the US House and Senate have introduced companion bills to pave the way to allow aircraft to fly supersonic over land. The Supersonic Aviation Modernization (SAM) Act calls on the FAA to issue or...

19/06/2025

NEW ISSUE OUT NOW! The latest issue of Pilot Magazine is on sale now

Pilot July 2025 features electrifying PPL training as its lead feature, which reveals how H55 has built Solar Impulse technology into the Bristell B23 Energic. A leading contender in the race to become the first electric aeroplane to be fully CS-23 certified for flight training, the Energic’s power technology is a legacy of the great around-the-world Solar Impulse project.

The issue also features A Better Way to Fly? After years of hiring and owning aeroplanes, including classic ‘group A’ types, one experienced and active pilot concludes that microlights are the real answer to his and, very likely, your needs.

Plus, a look at extraordinary ‘Whizz Wheels’. Now becoming collector’s items, dead reckoning navigation computers may no longer play a part in everyday aviation but have a fascinating history – and are still there to save the day when GPS or the batteries fail!

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18/06/2025

Blackbushe wins planning proposal
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17/06/2025

Junkers A50 on tour
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11/06/2025

Guy Ritchie transforms Compton Abbas restaurant
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06/06/2025

Congratulations to legendary aviator and former Lasham Gliding Society Chairman Roy Cross on his 100th birthday! 🎉✈️

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06/06/2025

Hydrogen-electric service across the UK?

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