Wed, Dec 29, 2010
We Want YOUR Input... Help Us Make Our Final Decisions On The
Best Birds/Products/Values Of The Year
Each year, we put our heads
together, look over reader input, our own reports and other sources
of info and try to recognize the VERY BEST aircraft and products in
a number of pivotal categories. Each year, the choices get tougher.
Worse; we tend to also make it more difficult by tightening the
reins on the decision making process so that it gets harder and
harder to make the cut as the best in any category, much less wind
up at the top of the pack.
A Few years back, we also made some additional decisions as to
what constitutes a "Best of Breed" and how wide we wanted to cast
the net. As previously noted, it struck us that naming an overall
"best" aircraft across the entire spectrum of general (or sport)
aviation is probably no longer reasonable. There are simply too
many aircraft that have distinguished themselves in too many
outstanding ways for one to truly be called better than the other
on an overall basis. One man's perfect high-speed Hot-Rod, for
instance, becomes the expensive "way too hot to handle" mistake of
another pilot whose mission requirements may differ markedly. So...
we're going to cop out -- just a bit, mind you. From then on out,
we named the best aircraft in individual categories, and reserved
the right in the future to whittle down those categories as
necessary. But, the fact of the matter is that no one airplane is
all things to all pilots, and within the spectrum that we have
decided on, we're looking for YOUR Guidance in each of a number of
august categories.
Let me also note that while aircraft that previously were named
Best Of Breed in any category, or overall, are eligible for
inclusion in this year's list, we have decided to make it more
difficult (in our judging protocols) for a previous winner to take
the top spot in our judging criteria, so that a repeat winner truly
earns the distinction.
So... here we go, let's get YOUR FEEDBACK for the following
categories so that we can make some informed decisions about what
aircraft and products truly deserve the distinction to be named by
ANN and its readership as the "Best Of The Breed."
ANN 2010 Award
Categories: (PLEASE feel free to suggest
additional categories if you feel the following do not properly
address the best that you've seen in the past year) --
-
Heroes and Heartbreakers (The People and/or
Companies/Organizations That Either Helped Us Or Hurt Us The Most
In 2010)
-
Avionics -- Cockpit/Glass Panel Systems
(OEM/Retrofit)
-
Gadgets Of The Year (encompassing both
software and hardware products of use to the GA Pilot)
-
GA Piston-Single Category
-
GA Piston-Twin Category
-
GA Turbine (Turboprop)
-
GA Turbine (Jet)
-
S-LSA RTF (Ready To Fly) Category
-
E-LSA Kit Category
-
Amateur-Built/Experimental Kit
Category
-
Aircraft Of The Year (The Best Of Them All --
Regardless of Category)
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