Professional Pilot - The Magazine

[BoDEAN]

Coming to the end of my year subscription on this magazine, and I must say, I have not been impressed at all with it.
I do not think I will be renewing it.

Anyone else read or subscribe to this magazine?

 

[iaflyer]

I get it, and read perhaps 60% of Pro Pilot - but I don't pay for it. The magazine isn't enough for me to pay for it.

iaflyer

 

[enigma]

If Clay Lacy is your hero, Propilot Mag is for you. I get if free, so I don't complain, but the weather articles are about the only part worth reading.

If you get it for free, keep on taking it. If you're paying, stop.

regards,
enigma

 

[Anaconda]

I do not think I will be renewing it.

does that mean you pay for it, and if so, why???

 

[Gulfstream 200]

yeah we ran this subject through the mill a few times already...
everyone agrees the content is 90% shiit, but its free and everyone glances at it when it comes in the mail.
and yeah, clay lacy is a tool, I wish they would stop worshipping him...

 

[Lrjtcaptain]

was gonna say, not renew if its free? I dont pay, why do you?

 

[Maria]

I like the terminal checklist.

Are their other operational articles that much B.S? I don't care about the adver-articles, but the weather stuff?

 

[dispatchguy]

The ops articles and the weather stuff is all I care about. I have learned more about WX from their weather writer than I ever did from DX ground school.

I should post in the dorky pilot thread that if you answer the ProPilot mag adds for best advertisement, then youre a dork

 

[XLR8]

It gives me something to read on those long flights when you start running out of stuff to talk about and can't find anymore AM radio stations!

 

[jergar999]

Pro Pilot Mag

I just got a turndown letter, denying me a free subscription. Maybe tomorrow Publishers Clearing House will send me a letter to let me know I am out of the running.

 

[WrightAvia]

Reading "Professional Pilot" - the Magazine, helped me become everything I am today.

Muhahahahahaha!

 

[Gulfstream 200]

PM me your address, you can have my subscription...

just got it today and it was 200 pages of "Best catering" and "Best weather service"

thanks pro pilot!! I was really curious about how Rudys was going to fare this year (NOT)....

 

[jergar999]

We're all turbine, King Airs, Citations, Lears, and even a few bigger ones.

 

[AeroBoy]

I worked at Pro Pilot a few years back. It's true what was said about not checking off the box about pistons--even heavy piston twins. If you've been turned down, it was probably just a mistake. Here's what to do next: call and ask for a qualification form for a free subscription. Whoever you talk to is sure to ask you if you fly turbine equipment. Say yes, even if you have a C172--unless you don't want them to send the form (and seeing it's editorial content lately, I wouldn't blame you; I tried to raise the bar while I was there, and it worked for awhile until the publisher/editor/editorial-for-advertising whore started playing around in the sandbox again). But I digress--when you get the form fill it out completely (check the turbine equipment box) and make sure you sign it. Incomplete forms are ONLY SOMETIMES sent back to be redone, but most of the time they're just rejected outright because they don't want the hassle. And kids, don't pay for it when 40,000 people get it for free and about 100 people actually fork over the mulla for a subscription.

And if you're ever offered a job there, make sure you can't find another job somewhere else first. Try McDonald's if you have you. You'll thank me for this advice later. One more interesting tidbit, it's well know in the aviation journalism community as Pro Pilot university. I'd say that more than half of the people now writing/editing aviation magazines worked at Pro Pilot at one time. And there's a reason that the place has a revolving door when it comes to writers and editors. Oh, and if you think Clay Lacy can actually put two words together to make a sentence, think again. His stuff is ghost written by another person.

The cat's now out of the bag...

 

[skyking1976]

Oh, and if you think Clay Lacy can actually put two words together to make a sentence, think again. His stuff is ghost written by another person.

Figures... all "his" articles ever are were glorified advertising testimonials.

 

[AAflyer]

I just got me no thanks letter as well, and I didn't put any piston time on it. Oh well, refreshing to see a rejection letter, I thought I was to cool for school

AA