"take a peek at past copies of Pilot magazines, particularly those when James Gilbert was at the helm.
I am not supporting any individual magazine but this is the way an aviation publication should be run, not only to to make it fair and balanced, but more importantly to make it really interesting to the readers.
There are very few contributions these days which are of any interest, most follow the same very dull format without the remotest spark of anything worthwhile.
Beat that objective and you'll have my interest and that of many others. "
Ain't that the truth. James was outspoken, non-PC, and he liked that in his contributers. If he liked your stuff, he'd print it. If not, he wasn't backward in coming forward about rejecting it; you learn from that!
It made for a great magazine!
I'm not sure the H&S PC world of 2011 would support a magazine like Gilbert's 'Pilot'. But it's undoubtedly a poorer world for that.