July LA Mag

Jim Gale · Post by **Jim Gale** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:40 am

Brian it's different and arrived today! Well done!
Regards, Jim.

MikeGodsell · Post by **MikeGodsell** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 6:23 pm

Great job Brian. Really like the new mag..more professional feel to it, exceptional use of colour. Congratulations. MG

Trevor Harvey · Post by **Trevor Harvey** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 8:05 pm

Must take the Pony Express a while to get this far north.

Post by **John Dean** » Mon Jun 30, 2008 10:24 pm

Another good read and the new layout looks clean and modern. Good to see our new CEO feels so passionate about our hobby.

Only down side for me is the Engineering pages no longer being bound in. I will surely mislay the loose leaf insert.

ivanmanley · Post by **ivanmanley** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:19 am

Thumbs up Brian! Love the style of the Dunkeswell photos too. Beats just plain side shots of aircraft and adds feel. Lots to read, so I'll get back to it!

Ivan
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merlin · Post by **merlin** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 11:01 am

Good mag and timely as well - Congrats.

PS like the eng supplement as I can now file then separately. I hope that as the file grows you will issue an contents list from time to time.

Thanks

Bob F · Post by **Bob F** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:59 pm

I agree, very professional, well designed & printed. The mag looks just as good, if not better, than the Aviation Mags produced by the big publishing houses.

Bob F

C Rule · Post by **C Rule** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:21 pm

I like the new format it looks very professional

Nick Allen · Post by **Nick Allen** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:31 pm

One comment is that the font size seems a touch small

In the spirit of constructive criticism, the main the wrong with some of the text, typographically speaking, is that the letter spacing is set too tight, sometimes far too tight. The main contents page is a case in point.

I have reservations about large wodges of sans fonts, and this one in particular, but realise this is to some extent subjective; however, I can't help noticing that the main features are far more legible than the newsy bits...

But really, well done Brian. Lots of good stuff in there.

leiafee · Post by **leiafee** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 9:48 pm

I'm sure this is going to turn out to be a fifty-fifty split but I preferred the engineering sections stapled in. I do read them, but am far more liekly to reread at a later date if their still in place in the mag stack than floating around. 'Course it could be as someone too cheapt to buy binders that I am not the Target Audience, in which case feel free to disregard

Liked the layout overall though.

Nick Allen · Post by **Nick Allen** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 10:22 pm

I'm sure this is going to turn out to be a fifty-fifty split but I preferred the engineering sections stapled in

What would be really neat, of course, would be to have these very useful sections archived on the website as downloadable PDFs. Then we could all find them, always. (When I say "all" I'm assuming computer ownership of course...). The classified ads are up there in the LAA Magazine section, so seems there's no reason why these sections couldn't have their own little space in Engineering. Apart from their utillity, I think they offer interesting insight into how Engineering goes about its work, and are worth showing off to the wider world on that ground too.[/quote]

Donald Walker · Post by **Donald Walker** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:31 pm

I enjoyed the humour section, where I read:

"On cost the current difference of £20.000 is an artificial one due to the currency exchange rates, the Sierra being purchased in euros and the SportCruiser in US dollars. If measured by a common yardstick the difference would be more like £5000."

I now wonder if the £20.000 I saved were real or just monopoly money. Or was it only £5000 in real money and £15.000 in monoply money.

Donald

Rod1 · Post by **Rod1** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:52 pm

“What would be really neat, of course, would be to have these very useful sections archived on the website as downloadable PDFs”

We all have to have computers to get Notams and weather. Would it not save the association money if a small section of the mag told us what the current comment was about and the actual content was web based? It would also allow more frequent updates as we would not be restricted to the mag publishing dates.

Rod1

Brian Hope · Post by **Brian Hope** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 5:09 pm

Hi Rod, you're falling into that same old trap of believing everybody sits in front of a computer all day and night, and it simply isn't the case. And not all LAA members have to access Notams and the weather, they don't all fly.
Am I typical, I don't know, but I do not read any web based magazines at all. To be honest, other than the BB I don't read much on the LAA website either. No I'm not a Luddite, I use the internet extensively and work on the computer a great deal to put Light Aviation together, so I probably use it a great deal more than many LAAers.
I read books, newspapers and magazines I can hold in my hands, as I suspect most of us do. The computer god will not change that, not for me at least.