pacific wings magazine
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I give it 5stars.
Its a decent lenth of glossy colour magazine with a good mix of GA, Ag, Military/Warbird and airline news and views as well as a bit of helicopter attention.
The main drawcard for myself is that its a NZ mag so most of the feature a/c are the ones you see flying around and all the classified ads are close to home.
Would be good it if came out monthly tho I dont think enough happens in NZ aviation to make this possible.
Aviation news is another good read in my opinion.
I better head down to the bookshop now and have a read of the Aug/Sep edition
Its a decent lenth of glossy colour magazine with a good mix of GA, Ag, Military/Warbird and airline news and views as well as a bit of helicopter attention.
The main drawcard for myself is that its a NZ mag so most of the feature a/c are the ones you see flying around and all the classified ads are close to home.
Would be good it if came out monthly tho I dont think enough happens in NZ aviation to make this possible.
Aviation news is another good read in my opinion.
I better head down to the bookshop now and have a read of the Aug/Sep edition
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Now that its got more local nuts and bolts stuff, such as 'Hangar Cat' etc it provides info that interests me and others I've spoken to. The change to a wider and more suffustikated market has been modified somewhat, so I'm renewing my subsubscription after a fair break.
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Waste of money if you ask me.
It's not a true "magazine", more a newspaper with lots of little stories interspersed with the odd interesting article.
Try the american magzine FLYING or similar. Lots of articles on new technology, aircraft reports, mixture of bizjets, airline, GA etc
Pacific wings is way behind the times. They could do well to stop utilising the services of Mr Clark for a start. The last thing we need is another article by a self-proclaimed "aviation expert".
It's not a true "magazine", more a newspaper with lots of little stories interspersed with the odd interesting article.
Try the american magzine FLYING or similar. Lots of articles on new technology, aircraft reports, mixture of bizjets, airline, GA etc
Pacific wings is way behind the times. They could do well to stop utilising the services of Mr Clark for a start. The last thing we need is another article by a self-proclaimed "aviation expert".
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I went off Pacific Wings when they became just that. In my opinion, NZ Wings magazine was a far better read. When they launched the new look and went for a bigger market they began to overlook a lot of the interesting bits of NZ aviation. Since then, it seems to be a lot 'thinner' in what it covers.
My thoughts at the time were that if I wanted to read about something happening in Aussie, I could read an Aussie mag. I'd much prefer to know more about what is happening at home at a deeper level than what is covered now.
I have heard that the magazine market is a real hard one to make a buck out of so I can't slag them off too much but I reckon it could be done better.
MAPt
My thoughts at the time were that if I wanted to read about something happening in Aussie, I could read an Aussie mag. I'd much prefer to know more about what is happening at home at a deeper level than what is covered now.
I have heard that the magazine market is a real hard one to make a buck out of so I can't slag them off too much but I reckon it could be done better.
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I agree, it certainly is a "thin" magazine.
There seems to be nothing in there about the industry itself. Lots of "jumpseat" articles telling us that the B737 burns X kg/hr at FL330 but nothing of any real interest.
Often the editors personal comment at the front is the most interesting part about it. Perhaps they need more feature writers, ie a GA writer, an airline writer, a maintenance writer, a bizjet writer etc, all with monthly columns.
Now that would make it a magazine, instead of the news reporting publication that it is now.
Only an opinion. I certainly prefer to spend my $$ on subscribing to foreign magazines that give me something to think about, rather than $7.50 for a gossip session. I get better gossip at work on the flightdeck!
Bombay
There seems to be nothing in there about the industry itself. Lots of "jumpseat" articles telling us that the B737 burns X kg/hr at FL330 but nothing of any real interest.
Often the editors personal comment at the front is the most interesting part about it. Perhaps they need more feature writers, ie a GA writer, an airline writer, a maintenance writer, a bizjet writer etc, all with monthly columns.
Now that would make it a magazine, instead of the news reporting publication that it is now.
Only an opinion. I certainly prefer to spend my $$ on subscribing to foreign magazines that give me something to think about, rather than $7.50 for a gossip session. I get better gossip at work on the flightdeck!
Bombay
