Matt Barrow wrote:
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ups.com...

It has gone significantly downhill. It has much less content than just
a few years ago and too much of it is the same stuff written by the
same old blowhards. Just look at how thin it is now compared to only a
few years ago. Clearly the budget for editorial content has been cut
to the bone. Richard Collins is particularly hard for me to take.

Agreed. Collins is fine ONCE, but so much is just repaet business and he has
a hard time geeting past OWT's.


I still think it's worth it for Lane Wallace, Aftermath, and Les Abend.

I can't past Wallace's "touchy/feely" writing.

The "touchy/feely" style is what I like least about Lane, I like her
mainly because she actually is a spamcan owner and writes about the
kinds of topics that interest me, like flying a spamcan in Austrailia,
or interviewing the last guy to get an FAA Navigator's rating (complete
with sextant!). Sometimes I like her touchy-feely stuff but not that
often (I really liked her column on why she didnt' want an instrument
rating, for example), but usually I just find the topics she writes
about interesting and as a hobbyist spamcan pilot myself I can identify
with her more than the other staff members there..

In all, though, it's not what it was 30 years ago when I first subscribed
and got the awesome "Flying Annual" issue each year.

Heh. It's not even what it was 5 years ago.