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		<title>Survival Systems: Unforgettable Training</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 01 Sep 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Denial can be a useful thing when it comes to getting the job done. I&#8217;ve done my fair share of flying overwater and out of gliding distance to land, and just rationalized that the odds were slim of ditching and I&#8217;d figure it out when it happe...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Denial can be a useful thing when it comes to getting the job done. I&#146;ve done my fair share of flying overwater and out of gliding distance to land, and just rationalized that the odds were slim of ditching and I&#146;d figure it out when it happened. The reality was that I didn&#146;t have a clue what being immersed in an aircraft would be like. I had no plan, and that meant that if the aircraft did anything other than stop upright and floating, I probably was going to the bottom wearing a 3000-pound aluminum suit.The point of egress training like we sampled at Survival Systems Inc. is to give you that plan.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Lycoming IE2: Incremental Technology</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Aug 2010 00:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The modern car engine&#8212;even a cheap one&#8212;is such a marvel that you can turn the key without thinking about its once-in-a-million failure-rate ECU, its direct-fire coils and fuel injectors that can paint the Mona Lisa in 93-octane pulses. Oh, an...]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[The modern car engine&#151;even a cheap one&#151;is such a marvel that you can turn the key without thinking about its once-in-a-million failure-rate ECU, its direct-fire coils and fuel injectors that can paint the Mona Lisa in 93-octane pulses. Oh, and if you can&#146;t get 93 octane, no worries, the ECU will adjust the timing to burn 91. Were it so simple with aircraft engines. And not that Lycoming and Continental haven&#146;t tried to make it that simple and they are still trying. Lycoming&#146;s latest and most sophisticated attempt is the new IE2 for integrated electronic engine. Integrated means electronically customized for the airframe and dancing cheek to cheek with the airplane&#146;s EFIS and it also means full-bore electronic control of nearly everything. ]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Diamond HK36: Gliding and Flying</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 01 Jun 2010 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shortly before the outbreak of World War II in Europe, Germany stunned the world by fielding the most advanced and competent air force on the planet. And it did that despite Draconian post-war treaty restrictions that all but prohibited combat aircraft development. But the pilots came from a different tradition&#8212;a passion for gliding and soaring. That continues yet today with most of the world&#8217;s glider production centered in Europe, including the re-introduced HK36 Super Dimona motorglider from Diamond Aircraft. "New" doesn&#8217;t exactly apply to this airplane because it has been in and out of production for 20 years. In fact, the design is really responsible for much of the way Diamond airplanes look, feel and fly for before it was a powered airplane company, Diamond&#8217;s predecessor, HOAC, was a motorglider company, with antecedents extending to 1980.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[Shortly before the outbreak of World War II in Europe, Germany stunned the world by fielding the most advanced and competent air force on the planet. And it did that despite Draconian post-war treaty restrictions that all but prohibited combat aircraft development. But the pilots came from a different tradition&#151;a passion for gliding and soaring. That continues yet today with most of the world&#146;s glider production centered in Europe, including the re-introduced HK36 Super Dimona motorglider from Diamond Aircraft. "New" doesn&#146;t exactly apply to this airplane because it has been in and out of production for 20 years. In fact, the design is really responsible for much of the way Diamond airplanes look, feel and fly for before it was a powered airplane company, Diamond&#146;s predecessor, HOAC, was a motorglider company, with antecedents extending to 1980.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>LSA Price Trends: Just Too High?</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 01 May 2010 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A brief query to the WABAC machine unearthed this gem on light sport aircraft from the Aviation Consumer archive: "Some think the combination of lighter, cheaper airframes and simpler pilot certification will yield a boom in private flying." We think it&#8217;s reasonable to say that almost everyone thought this, but if you now think the boom sounds more like a faint squeak, you aren&#8217;t alone. The LSA groundswell has yet to form and judging by comments from our readers and video viewers, the cost of the airplanes has something to do with it. Maybe a lot to do with it.]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[A brief query to the WABAC machine unearthed this gem on light sport aircraft from the Aviation Consumer archive: "Some think the combination of lighter, cheaper airframes and simpler pilot certification will yield a boom in private flying." We think it&#146;s reasonable to say that almost everyone thought this, but if you now think the boom sounds more like a faint squeak, you aren&#146;t alone. The LSA groundswell has yet to form and judging by comments from our readers and video viewers, the cost of the airplanes has something to do with it. Maybe a lot to do with it.]]></content:encoded>
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		<title>Legend Amphib: Fun-to-Fly Eyecatcher</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Apr 2010 06:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[If you park a Cub on a ramp, you&#8217;ll soon draw a crowd. If the Cub is on floats, you&#8217;ll need crowd control and that, in a nutshell, describes what may be American Legend&#8217;s best marketing ploy. At the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Florida, last winter, Legend introduced the amphibious float version of its popular LSA Legend Cub. By dint of sheer size, it drew a constant stream of attention&#8212;the airplane towers over the typical diminutive LSA and it&#8217;s one of only a small number of LSAs being sold as purpose-built amphibians. (We covered two others, the Searey and the Seamax in the August 2009 issue, both flying boats.) While we initially thought the Legend amphib was a conversion kit available for any existing Legend, it turns out not to be. That&#8217;s not to say a Legend couldn&#8217;t be fitted with floats, but the airplane we flew is a purpose-made amphib and owner Dick Parsons told us he doesn&#8217;t have land gear for the airplane. (That&#8217;s an option.)]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[If you park a Cub on a ramp, you&#146;ll soon draw a crowd. If the Cub is on floats, you&#146;ll need crowd control and that, in a nutshell, describes what may be American Legend&#146;s best marketing ploy. At the U.S. Sport Aviation Expo in Sebring, Florida, last winter, Legend introduced the amphibious float version of its popular LSA Legend Cub. By dint of sheer size, it drew a constant stream of attention&#151;the airplane towers over the typical diminutive LSA and it&#146;s one of only a small number of LSAs being sold as purpose-built amphibians. (We covered two others, the Searey and the Seamax in the August 2009 issue, both flying boats.) While we initially thought the Legend amphib was a conversion kit available for any existing Legend, it turns out not to be. That&#146;s not to say a Legend couldn&#146;t be fitted with floats, but the airplane we flew is a purpose-made amphib and owner Dick Parsons told us he doesn&#146;t have land gear for the airplane. (That&#146;s an option.)]]></content:encoded>
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