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VOLUME.26 / NUMBER.9

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DEPARTMENTS
6 Member Benefits
Regulation violations

50 Weather
It's not that simple
By Jack Williams

30 Flight Lesson
12-minute window
By Frank E. Cahill

32 Checkride
All turned around

61 Advertiser Index
Aviation marketplace

64 Debrief
Spencer Suderman

By Bob Schmelzer

55
"MOST PEOPLE
WHO COME FOR
SPIN TRAINING
AREN'T SEEKING
A THRILL. THE IDEA
OF ENCOUNTERING
A SPIN
INADVERTENTLY
IS SCARY, SO
GETTING A JUMP
ON IT SEEMS
PRUDENT."
-CATHERINE
CAVAGNARO

55

COMMENTARY

4 Right Seat

26 Around the Patch

Go for a spin

The last page

By Ian J. Twombly

By Jill W. Tallman

8 Letters
More than a list

28 Flying Carpet
Tip of the spear
By Greg Brown

PREFLIGHT

ADVANCED PILOT

10 Rare Find

55 CFI to CFI

12 Success Stories

64

13 How it Works
14 After the Checkride
16 AOPA News
18 Training Products
19 AOPA News
20 AOPA Initiative
21 First Look
Abeam the Numbers

Teaching spins
By Catherine Cavagnaro

57 Instructor Report
Today's scenario-based training
By Rod Machado

58 Career Pilot
Taking stock of the hiring scene
By Wayne Phillips

59 Career Advisor
By Wayne Phillips

57 Accident Report
Too soon to solo?

22 ASI News

30

By David Jack Kenny

24 Final Exam
Events

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