aerokurier is a monthly magazine founded in 1957 covering international civil aviation

Civil aviation

Civil aviation is one of two major categories of flying, representing all non-military aviation, both private and commercial. Most of the countries in the world are members of the International Civil Aviation Organization and work together to establish common standards and recommended practices...

 published in German. aerokurier is published by Motor Presse Stuttgart, a large European publishing company for special interest magazines. The current cover price per copy is 4,50 Euro (in Germany).

aerokurier focuses on:

• General Aviation
  General aviation
  General aviation is one of the two categories of civil aviation. It refers to all flights other than military and scheduled airline and regular cargo flights, both private and commercial. General aviation flights range from gliders and powered parachutes to large, non-scheduled cargo jet flights...
  
  
• Business Aviation
  Business Aviation
  Business Aviation was an airline based in Kinshasa in the Democratic Republic of the Congo. It was established in 1998 and operated scheduled domestic and international services, as well as charter flights and wet-lease services. Its main base was N'Dolo Airport, Kinshasa...
  
  
• Sport Aviation
• Gliding
  Gliding
  Gliding is a recreational activity and competitive air sport in which pilots fly unpowered aircraft known as gliders or sailplanes using naturally occurring currents of rising air in the atmosphere to remain airborne. The word soaring is also used for the sport.Gliding as a sport began in the 1920s...
  
  
• Ultralights
• Training
  Flight training
  Flight training is a course of study used when learning to pilot an aircraft. The overall purpose of primary and intermediate flight training is the acquisition and honing of basic airmanship skills....
  
  
• Developments in Aviation Technology
  Aerospace engineering
  Aerospace engineering is the primary branch of engineering concerned with the design, construction and science of aircraft and spacecraft. It is divided into two major and overlapping branches: aeronautical engineering and astronautical engineering...
  
  
• Airports
• Political Topics Concerning Aviation
  Aviation
  Aviation is the design, development, production, operation, and use of aircraft, especially heavier-than-air aircraft. Aviation is derived from avis, the Latin word for bird.-History:...
  
  

Source:Official site

aerokurier is also the principal sponsor of the Online Contest

Online Contest

The aerokurier Online Contest , a worldwide decentralized soaring competition for glider, hang glider, and paraglider pilots. The OLC is operated by Segelflugszene Gemeinnützige GmbH, a German not-for-profit founded in 2000...

 (OLC), a worldwide decentralized soaring competition for glider

Glider (sailplane)

A glider or sailplane is a type of glider aircraft used in the sport of gliding. Some gliders, known as motor gliders are used for gliding and soaring as well, but have engines which can, in some cases, be used for take-off or for extending a flight...

, hang glider, and paraglider pilots.

External links

• Official site
• aerokurier Online Contest