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From The Editor: “Student Pilot, First Solo”
 Everyone remembers their first solo flight. And so when I heard, âStudent pilot, first solo,â transmitted on the radio a few days ago at Van Nuys Airport, it brought me back to that chilly March morning when my instructor Liz DeStaffany hopped out of N2447B and I taxied the Cessna 172 to Santa Monica Airport’s runway 21. |
First 500 Feet, Part I: Engine Failure!
What to do when the worst thing happens at the worst moment
Ticket To Ride II
Part II: Practice, practice, practice, home study, and what? Time to solo already? Gulp.
June 2009
WAAS Approaches DVD (Sporty’s, 2008, ID# D243A). Instrument pilots understand that WAAS-enhanced GPS approaches are the future of instrument procedures, and Sporty’s offers a program that explains it all. This DVD simplifies the technology and demonstrates how to fly different types of WAAS approaches on the Garmin G1000 and the 430W/530W. Order from www.sportys.com. The […]
Plane & Pilot In A Pilot’s Story
Filmed in hangars and homes, at restaurants and on ramps, A Pilot’s Story is an upcoming documentary from Wilco Films that tells the story of flight in the words of pilots themselves.
