Been flying 45 years and buying Pilot for the past 10 or so since I discovered it. It was the world's best flying magazine. So good that I would buy a copy to read to get my flying fix when stuck in HK or somewhere away from my homebase and aircraft.
Have never seen such a deterioration in a magazine's content as experienced by Pilot since Gilbert et al left.
If the present owners can't get it back to the top maybe Gilbert can buy it back at a cut price and restore it.