Flying in Ireland to cease publishing magazine.

Simon Gruber Says

Saw this on their site, January issue is to be the last after 10 years.

http://www.flyinginireland.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=41448#p41448

L1011

The immediacy of information on the net has really hurt this kind of publication - it was the last aviation mag I bought other than impulse buys when travelling. Still a pity to see it go though, it always got read when it came through the door

Duffer2010

Dissapointed to hear this. Have bought every edition since it launched. Mad to think it's being going 10 years.

Stovepipe

Just got it in the door today. What a pity, as it was quite well informed.

When you localise on Ireland you will struggle to produce news that people haven't already heard via the radio/TV and now net. It's gone the way of the newspaper, you don't read actual breaking news but opinions on yesterday's news.

Airliner world for me is more informative as its global and occasionally I read something I have already known about but usually it's something I didn't know which is why it's a winner for me. FII obviously can't compete globally so it was inevitable that it would cease publishing.

It's a shame to see it go it looked and felt professional but content let it down, vast amounts of padding in the news sections about annual reports.

Duffer2010

Agree about the padding-particularly in the Airliner News section. Also a certain person whom flies an RV 7 at airshows in Ireland was nearly in every edition...

Fully Established

It became a really predictable and boring publication ,same faces and advertisements in every addition.

Stovepipe

I have to say, in defence of the Dwyers, they put a huge amount of sweat and shoe leather into this. There is no corner of the island they did not turn to, to get or make contributions. A lot of people would never have got a mention, especially for things like first solos or completion of CPLs, homebuilts, aeros, ballooning, classics, microlights, spotters, airline news (home and abroad), airshow news, historical articles, Air Corps news and a host of other things. From experience, it is very hard to get people to contribute to even basic newletters, not to mind main street publications like this and there are hundreds of great stories that go untold. Also, it was very important to the people who took part in non-mainstream events such as local fly-ins to see their event in print and this magazine has contributed to many hundreds of people making or getting a start in aviation. As for content, well sometimes, it's impossible not to pad it a little if contributions are thin on the ground, as a lot of them are either commercially-sensitive or depending on other people's timing, such as aerial photo shoots or the unveiling of new aircraft. I think they did a great job, getting ten years worth out of a magazine originating on such a small island.