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DO YOU

TOUCH

THE RIGHT AND WRONG WAY TO EXPEDITE

TAKEOFFS AND LANDINGS p.49

DO YOU

THE RIGHT AND WRONG WAY TO EXPEDITE

TAKEOFFS AND LANDINGS

AND GO

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NATURE’S

GPS

A RIVER RUNS TO IT p. 28

THINK QUICK

YOUR PLANS HAVE CHANGED p. 34

THINK QUICK

MYSTERIOUS MAGNETOS

UNCOVERING THE POWER SOURCE p. 20

BARRY WILLIAMS

FLYING BRADY p. 56

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VOLUME.23 / NUMBER. 11

WHEN THE PLAN GOES

OUT THE WINDOW

What will you do when things

start to change?

Remember what they say about the

best laid plans...well, that light plan

you so diligently worked on now

isn't going to ly—so to speak—so

what's your Plan B?

By Jill W. Tallman

FEATURES

TECHNIQUE

Stability

How an aircraft responds

to an upset.

By Ian J. Twombly

See page 34

"A VERY SMART

COLLEAGUE

AMENDS THE

'PLAN THE FLIGHT

AND FLY THE PLAN'

RULE BY ADDING

THESE WORDS:

'BUT ALWAYS HAVE

A PLAN B.'"

—JILL W. TALLMAN

COVER STORY »

THE RIVER

Revisiting one of

our earliest forms

of navigation.

Long before moving maps or

VOR radials, airborne navigation

was entirely earthbound.

By W. Scott Olsen

ON THE COVER »

Cameron Lawson

photographed a

Diamond DA40

over the Madison

River in southwest

Montana to

accompany W. Scott

Olsen's story "Follow the River,"

which begins on page 28.

Olsen's story "Follow the River,"

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VOLUME.23 / NUMBER. 11

DEPARTMENTS

40 Weather

Winter's lying woes

By Jack Williams

52 Advertiser Index

Aviation marketplace

56 Debrief

Barry Williams

43 Flight Lesson

Just 53 nautical miles

By Steve Ely

COMMENTARY

4 President’s Perspective

This one could be yours

By Craig Fuller

25 Checkride

Single-pilot resource

management skills

By Bob Schmelzer

6 Right Seat

You're the boss

By Ian J. Twombly

26 Flying Carpet

Enchanted journey

By Greg Brown

8 Letters

A visible protective layer

CAREER PILOT

PREFLIGHT

45 Time for a Change?

By Wayne Phillips

10 Know Where to Go

12 This Weekend

46 Career Advisor

By Wayne Phillips

13 Success Stories

14 AOPA Action

Member Products

48 Tech Talk

By Jared Dirkmaat

50 NEW SECTION!

15 News

16 ASI News

Tech Tip

INSTRUCTOR REPORT

49 Teaching the T&G

By LeRoy Cook

18 Since You Asked

By Rod Machado

50 Add an Hour

By David Jack Kenny

Go inside your

aircraft and ind

out how it works:

This month,

the mysterious

magneto.

20 How It Works

21 News

51 The CFI Bookshelf

By Rod Machado

24 Final Exam

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