“Getting into light sport after losing your medical is like rediscovering sex.”
— Mike Fletcher, Light Sport Airplanes West
“It is clear to us there is a great need for this aircraft as we strive to drive down the cost of flying and learning to fly.”
— Jack Pelton, Cessna’s chairman, president and CEO on the company’s LSA
“We are better off with Cessna in this market.”
— Cirrus Design’s Alan Klapmeier, on Cessna’s new LSA
“As a flight instructor, your students become miniature versions of you, while you spread your aviation DNA — Da Nowledge of Airplanes — throughout the aviation community.”
— CFI Rod Machado
“You have to be highly disciplined, focused, safety conscious and both extroverted and introverted as the situation requires. Then it’s practice, practice, practice.”
— Patty Wagstaff on what makes a great aerobatic pilot