CONTENTS FEATURES 12.14 flighttraining.aopa.org VOLUME.26 / NUMBER. 12 36 THE COWBOY CODE Control your horse before it controls you. Like horses, airplanes sometimes have a mind of their own-but you are the pilot in command. Time to take the reins. By Natalie Bingham Hoover 40 TODAY IS JUST THE BEGINNING Inside the world of initial airline pilot training. Getting hired is the easy part-now the real training begins. By Pete Bedell 44 2015 COLLEGE AVIATION DIRECTORY 50 TECHNIQUE Medical certification. Making sense of a complex process. By Ian J. Twombly See page 30 30 "IN A PISTON SINGLE YOU'RE ACCUSTOMED TO THINKING MAYBE 10 MILES AHEAD OF THE AIRPLANE. IN A JET IT SHOULD BE MORE LIKE 100 MILES. STILL WANT TO FLY ONE, MAV? THOUGHT SO." -THOMAS A. HORNE SET ON JETS RIDE 'EM COWBOY! TAKE THE REINS AND HANDLE What's it like to fly high and fast? The differences between a piston single and a jet are vast. Our jet master takes you through an abbreviated Top Gun program. By Thomas A. Horne (YOU ARE THE PILOT IN THAT STEED COMMAND) p. 36 12.14 ABOUT THE COVER » Cover illustration by Barry Downard. On this page, a Cirrus Vision jet. flighttraining.aopa.org AL ANNUEGE COLL ORY CT LEGE DIREE THAN 200 S COL TIES MOR TION ERSI AVIA UNIV AND IN THE RIGHT SEAT All your hard work has paid JET FANTASIES FLYING THE BIG IRON p. 30 SELF-CHECKUP ARE YOU FIT TO FLY? p. 55 DECEMBER 2014 FLIGHT TRAINING /1 off p.40http://flighttraining.aopa.org http://flighttraining.aopa.org