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Aerobatic Cruisers: All-Purpose Fun

Admit it. You've made the statement loud and clear on more than one of those flights where you are following the magenta line in good weather and waiting for your destination to appear over the horizon. Sure, every once in a while, you'll do a steep turn or wander off course a bit to look at something interesting-but, deep inside, you know that's not enough. You live in the third dimension-there's got to be more to getting from one place to another in an airplane than droning along waiting . . . and waiting. Flying is supposed to be fun.

Rick Durden
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Patty Wagstaff and aerobatic student Anna Cutright in front of Ms. Wagstaff’s 8KCAB Super Decathlon

I’m bored!

Admit it. You’ve made the statement loud and clear on more than one of those flights where you are following the magenta line in good weather and waiting for your destination to appear over the horizon. Sure, every once in a while, you’ll do a steep turn or wander off course a bit to look at something interesting-but, deep inside, you know that’s not enough. You live in the third dimension-there’s got to be more to getting from one place to another in an airplane than droning along waiting . . . and waiting. Flying is supposed to be fun.

Rick Durden

Senior Editor Rick Durden has written for Aviation Consumer since 1994 and specializes in aviation law. Rick is an active CFII and holds an ATP with type ratings in the Douglas DC-3 and Cessna Citation. He is the author of The Thinking Pilot’s Flight Manual or, How to Survive Flying Little Airplanes and Have a Ball Doing It, Vols. 1 & 2.