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[Mac80]

Suggest you consider the bundle offered by flying magazine. Includes aviation consumer, IFR, plane and pilot, aviation safety, flying, and a couple of others.

you can use an iPad to view, some magazines have recorded stories.

 

 FLYING Magazine <flyingmedia@subscriptionconfirmation.com>

[toto]

I subscribe to IFR and Aviation Consumer. I used to subscribe to Flying, but I dropped it when they went to the new format. 

Your link just looks like an email address - is there an info page on the bundle subscription?

[toto]

This is probably not the best link, but they say you can add Flying for $39.99/year, and it doesn’t appear to be possible to get a digital-only subscription. 

https://flyingmag.dragonforms.com/loading.do?omedasite=IFR_New

ETA: Found it. 

https://www.flyingmag.com/subscribe-to-flying/

[milotron]

Just make sure you read the fine print at the bottom as this is an auto-renewing, forever subscription.

[toto]

  On 12/29/2023 at 2:53 PM, milotron said:

Just make sure you read the fine print at the bottom as this is an auto-renewing, forever subscription.

If you have a credit card that does “virtual account” numbers - it’s great for this. Create a credit card number that’s good for one month, use that to subscribe. When they try to auto-renew, it will fail - and you can make a decision about whether you want it.

Citi has this feature for all cards, not sure which other banks have it.

[milotron]

  On 12/29/2023 at 2:58 PM, toto said:

If you have a credit card that does “virtual account” numbers - it’s great for this. Create a credit card number that’s good for one month, use that to subscribe. When they try to auto-renew, it will fail - and you can make a decision about whether you want it.

Citi has this feature for all cards, not sure which other banks have it.

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Good call. I seem to get my credit card compromised every couple of years. After changing the number and when the payments fail, it reveals all the accounts and subscriptions that I forgot I had.

[GeeBee]

The editorial quality of Aviation Consumer, the only one of those I subscribed to has declined precipitously in the last few months. If it does not pick up I doubt I will renew.  Flying I gave up on when it became “Town & Country” with wings. I have little confidence in the “mothership” publisher that has amalgamated these publications. AOPA Pilot is free with my membership and that along with AVWeb email fills my needs.

[toto]

Honestly my biggest gripe with this and other magazine offers is that you can get print+digital, but not digital-only. Or in some cases the print+digital offer is considerably cheaper than digital-only. I don’t pretend to understand the economics of magazine publishing, but I really don’t enjoy taking a magazine from the mail and throwing it in the bin. I prefer to read digital, since I can take all of my subscriptions with me on a tablet.

[Mac80]

I got the offer by email. It is digital only. 

[Mac80]

Aviation safety has some good scary stories.

[toto]

  On 12/29/2023 at 3:23 PM, Mac80 said:

I got the offer by email. It is digital only. 

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Weird. I got a similar offer, but it’s definitely print+digital

 

 

[Mac80]

Appears I did get the print and digital versions so Toto is correct. I have not got print versions yet so I may ask to delete them if the printed versions come  later. 

https://www.flyingmag.com/subscribe-to-flying/?_gl=1*1mtsc87*_ga*NjgwMTQwMjMzLjE3MDM2MjA0MTk.*_ga_539K6FFJWT*MTcwMzg2MzY5My4yLjEuMTcwMzg2MzcyMy4zMC4wLjA.

https://emagazines.com/library?plid=58
 

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[toto]

  On 12/29/2023 at 3:38 PM, Mac80 said:

Appears I did get the print and digital versions so Toto is correct. I have not got print versions yet so I may ask to delete them if the printed versions come  later. 

https://www.flyingmag.com/subscribe-to-flying/?_gl=1*1mtsc87*_ga*NjgwMTQwMjMzLjE3MDM2MjA0MTk.*_ga_539K6FFJWT*MTcwMzg2MzY5My4yLjEuMTcwMzg2MzcyMy4zMC4wLjA.

https://emagazines.com/library?plid=58
 

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I’ll be interested to know if they can kill the print version. I might just do that, if they can give me credit for the three subscriptions I currently have…

[PeteMc]

  On 12/29/2023 at 3:15 PM, toto said:

Honestly my biggest gripe with this and other magazine offers is that you can get print+digital, but not digital-only.

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I mentioned this to AOPA years ago as a way to save on the print costs...  Still not an option and I toss the print copy as soon as it arrives.