'Pilot' magazine is indeed very different now to the James Gilbert publication. But the world of GA is very different as well, as is the world generally.
I subscribed to 'Pilot' from the late '70s when I started flying, until shortly after it went to Archent. I was also a contributer; James seemd to like my stuff. He was outspoken and opinionated (which I liked) and was also a bit of an autocrat, and he protected his writers (the CAA once contacted him for my contact details when they wanted to discuss something I'd written about - he told them to take a running jump. They had to trace me through their records which the lazy s*ds should have done in the first place).
We will never see again the likes of Gilbert's 'Pilot'. Some of it he wouldn't get away with today, and much of it wouldn't be to the sanitised and bland taste of many of today's mag readers.
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