Welcome To The Busiest Aviation Hub in Cyberspace

It is now early morning at Landings. You are the 1,382,087 visitor to our hub since March 21st 1996. During the last five minutes there were 43 landings and 16 takeoffs (read all about it here). We are glad to have you with us. Bookmark this page for future Landings, and before you go on, please check-in, as we would like to know you better, and feel free to follow this link to learn more about us.

News briefs: October

The White House has established a Commission On Aviation Safety and Security. The recommendations from this commision may strongly affect general aviation. You may want to follow the commissions recommendations and contact your representatives if you feel that they would adversely affect your flying.

Meigs Airport, the lakeside airport close to Downtown Chicago is being threatened with closure. Please visit the web site of the Friends of Meigs and see what you can do to try to help keep it open. This airport is a very valuable general aviation resource and its closure would set a dangerous precedence. Lets all try to prevent it.

Dr. Guenther Eichhorn has completed an update of all the Landings databases which now are updated through August 1st 1996. See the Search page.

The Add-A-PLANE service allows you to link an image and a full description of your aircraft to the Landings N-Number database.

Some of the best of the 1996 International Children's Aviation Art Competition is on display throughout the site. If you like what you see, please let us know.

Check the What's New Section for more on these and other news.

SITE Service

Starting at $4.16/mo. you can set up a complete Web site using the new Landings SITE SERVICE   The service provides professional graphics and layouts, UNLIMITED CHANGES and UPDATES (with some exceptions), and requires no HTML or FTP. All you need is your browser and the Landings SITE Wizard will guide you through the process.

The Add-A-PLANE service allows you to link an image and a full description of your aircraft to the Landings N-Number database.

MARKET LINKS provide two major benefits: first, this service allows your company to be listed under more than one category. Second, it provides a way to link your company using categories other then those selected by the Landings Editorial process. To learn more about it go to the MARKET LINKS page.

See our Advertising Options page.

Features

The Joe Benkert Forum has been greatly expanded and redesigned and now includes close to 30 topics, ranging from Aerodynamics, to Flight Instructing, to Meteorology and related questions, for which Joe provides expert advice. You'll find him an extremely valuable resource and this is your opportunity to get real tough questions answered (check the forum pages you'll see what we mean by 'real tough'). Mr. Joe Benkert is a fully rated pilot with a long history in the military, airlines, and corporate flight. He is a published author and is currently on a national tour conducting motivational seminars for flight instructors.