New Editor Aviation Consumer

That's awesome. He is a good writer and obviously has good taste in airplanes.
 
Congratulations Jonathan!
 
Wish he'd bring that plane down here so I could look at it, or at least have his mechanic call. I'd hate to see a high profile guy like that have an accident that could have been easily avoided by a simple walk around.
 
carllee said:
Wish he'd bring that plane down here so I could look at it, or at least have his mechanic call. I'd hate to see a high profile guy like that have an accident that could have been easily avoided by a simple walk around.
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Hey Carl, is there a specific reason for this? I'm curious. I know he's not new to that plane, he's featured it in articles for a few years now.

Alex
 
Nothing specific. There's just a lot of mechanics out there these days that only look at what they're paid to look at. They overlook landing gear issues, fuel delivery issues, exhaust issues - sometimes simple things that can cause big problems, and Commanders are foreign to them, so they don't see some of the things that are obviously wrong.
 
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It’s too bad that the new owners of Aviation Consumer magazine canceled the publication. They have given subscribers Flying magazine for the duration of their subscriptions. What a waste of paper Flying is.
 
Still surprises me that this guy flies and writes about Commanders but has yet, to my knowledge at least, to reach out to the COG for more info or support talk.
Anybody know differently?
 
Jonathan was an ePilot Editor for AOPA in 2024. not sure how long bef that.
He's been the owner of N7MA since 03-2023.
Don't see where he's ever logged in or posted here. ..?..

Judi
 
rringgold said:
It’s too bad that the new owners of Aviation Consumer magazine canceled the publication. They have given subscribers Flying magazine for the duration of their subscriptions. What a waste of paper Flying is.
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I was an IFR subscriber and had just renewed when all this happened. The Flying Magazines are sitting in the clear wrapper they came in. A funny thing is that I went from a subscription to Aviation Consumer News to IFR Magazine beforehand.

With all the "we must use AI" to stay competitive stuff they threw around and the massive drop in tone and readability on many of the FireCrown-owned publications, I walked away. I am subscribed to and following the new AvBrief newsletter, and I hope it can gain traction.

I wrote and edited training materials for textbooks, computer-based training, and live lecture series for 25 years, and I know how much work goes into writing and producing content and how AI can help. But the actual tone, pace, and other choices you make when writing are a human function. It's pretty obvious to me when I see a piece that was written from a ChatGPT prompt, just like the uncanny valley where faces, etc., don't look quite right when you see them.
 
Airotto370 said:
Still surprises me that this guy flies and writes about Commanders but has yet, to my knowledge at least, to reach out to the COG for more info or support talk.
Anybody know differently?
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That's what scares me - all we need is for this guy to have a gear collapse or some other easily avoidable calamity and start blasting a bunch of nonsense about Commanders.
 
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