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VOLUME.25 / NUMBER.8

08.13

DEPARTMENTS
4 Member Benefits

Legal protection

48 Weather
Under pressure
By Jack Williams

28 Accident Report
Fly the distraction
By Dan Namowitz

30 Flight Lesson

Bee in the bonnet

58 Advertiser Index

Aviation marketplace

72 ebrief
D
Rinker Buck

By Warren Sundberg

55

COMMENTARY

6 Right Seat

Become a pilot

Move your fun threshold

By Ian J. Twombly

"YOU DON'T
HAVE TO FLY
HIGHER THAN
MAYBE 2,000
OR SO FEET
TO FEEL THE
EFFECTS OF
UNEQUAL AIR
PRESSURE."

26 Flying Carpet

8 Centerline

Vive la France

Night flight from Vegas
By Greg Brown

By Adam Smith

PREFLIGHT

51 Backseat Flying

14 Success Story
AOPA Summit

72

CAREER PILOT

12 Best of Both Worlds

—JACK WILLIAMS

48

10 etters
L

52 areer Advisor
C

15 How it Works
16 News

17 After the Checkride

By Pete Bedell

By Wayne Phillips

54 Tech Talk

By Jared Dirkmaat

18 News

Tech Tip

19 Training Products
20 Final Exam
21 News

30

22 Flight Training

Excellence Award Winner

23 ASI News

INSTRUCTOR REPORT

55 The Post-Colgan World
By E. Allan Englehardt

56 Surprising Similarities

By David Jack Kenny

57 Kindness But Not

Weakness
By Rod Machado

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Flight Training - August 2013

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Flight Training - August 2013

Flight Training - August 2013
Contents
Member Benefits
Right Seat
Centerline
Letters
Best of Both Worlds
Success Story AOPA Summit
How It Works
News
After the Checkride
News Tech Tip
Training Products
Final Exam
News
Flight Training Excellence Award Winner
ASI News
Flying Carpet
Accident Report
Flight Lesson
Birth of the Boom
Back in the Hood
Slow Down
Technique
Weather
Backseat Flying
Career Advisor
Tech Talk
The Post-Colgan World
Surprising Similarities
Kindness but Not Weakness
Advertiser Index
Debrief
Flight Training - August 2013 - Flight Training - August 2013
Flight Training - August 2013 - Cover2
Flight Training - August 2013 - Contents
Flight Training - August 2013 - 2
Flight Training - August 2013 - 3
Flight Training - August 2013 - Member Benefits
Flight Training - August 2013 - 5
Flight Training - August 2013 - Right Seat
Flight Training - August 2013 - 7
Flight Training - August 2013 - Centerline
Flight Training - August 2013 - 9
Flight Training - August 2013 - Letters
Flight Training - August 2013 - 11
Flight Training - August 2013 - Best of Both Worlds
Flight Training - August 2013 - 13
Flight Training - August 2013 - Success Story AOPA Summit
Flight Training - August 2013 - How It Works
Flight Training - August 2013 - News
Flight Training - August 2013 - After the Checkride
Flight Training - August 2013 - News Tech Tip
Flight Training - August 2013 - Training Products
Flight Training - August 2013 - Final Exam
Flight Training - August 2013 - News
Flight Training - August 2013 - Flight Training Excellence Award Winner
Flight Training - August 2013 - ASI News
Flight Training - August 2013 - 24
Flight Training - August 2013 - 25
Flight Training - August 2013 - Flying Carpet
Flight Training - August 2013 - 27
Flight Training - August 2013 - Accident Report
Flight Training - August 2013 - 29
Flight Training - August 2013 - Flight Lesson
Flight Training - August 2013 - 31
Flight Training - August 2013 - Birth of the Boom
Flight Training - August 2013 - 33
Flight Training - August 2013 - 34
Flight Training - August 2013 - 35
Flight Training - August 2013 - 36
Flight Training - August 2013 - 37
Flight Training - August 2013 - Back in the Hood
Flight Training - August 2013 - 39
Flight Training - August 2013 - 40
Flight Training - August 2013 - 41
Flight Training - August 2013 - Slow Down
Flight Training - August 2013 - 43
Flight Training - August 2013 - 44
Flight Training - August 2013 - 45
Flight Training - August 2013 - Technique
Flight Training - August 2013 - 47
Flight Training - August 2013 - Weather
Flight Training - August 2013 - 49
Flight Training - August 2013 - 50
Flight Training - August 2013 - Backseat Flying
Flight Training - August 2013 - Career Advisor
Flight Training - August 2013 - 53
Flight Training - August 2013 - Tech Talk
Flight Training - August 2013 - The Post-Colgan World
Flight Training - August 2013 - Surprising Similarities
Flight Training - August 2013 - Kindness but Not Weakness
Flight Training - August 2013 - Advertiser Index
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Flight Training - August 2013 - Debrief
Flight Training - August 2013 - Cover3
Flight Training - August 2013 - Cover4
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