I’m afraid that we’ll have to disagree over the quality of the writing. Too much in UK pilot magazines is written to attract “blokey blokes”, Top Gear-style. Count those “Greasers”, “Bumping the Dunlops” and other assorted bits of nonsense.

And as for Flight Tests, puhrleeez!!! (as thay say in America) You’d have to be a seriously retarded wanabee owner to base your buying decision on a magazine flight test, let along on the perception they create of MTOW, Useful Load and other such vital performance data.

Sadly, I can see why you seem so hung up on Flight Tests though. Once you remove those from the average UK mag, there isn’t really much of any substance left. Not true for magazines like FLYING.

Aha, on that I can agree with you. Unless Flying has improved recently it used to be long on ”there I was’ type stories where the author was too full of how well they got out of a sticky situation which a little bit of good airmanship would have prevented in the first place.(unfortunately they don’t admit this, mind you I’ve never known Americans to admit they’re wrong about anything)