Flight Training - August 2020 - 1
AUGUST 2020
Volume.32 * Number.6 aopa.org/ft
A good pilot is always learning
IN DEPTH
30
30
Sideways
Or, how I learned to stop
worrying and love the slip.
BY SARAH DEENER
36
Eat It Up
Making every hour of your
training and flight time count.
BY BUDD DAVISSON
14
PREFLIGHT
12 What Am I?
14 Flight Lesson
15 How It Works
16 You Can Fly
17 Ramp Appeal
18 Weather
19 Accident Report
20 Future Flight
21 Five Questions
22 Ask AOPA
23 Road Trip
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27 Membership
28 Technique
ADVANCED PILOT
41 Career
Spotlight
Corner office
BY JILL W. TALLMAN
42 Accident
Analysis
How long has
it been?
PERSPECTIVES
4 Coms
My favorite aircraft
6 Always Learning
Trees, 12 o'clock
BY KOLLIN STAGNITO
8 Unusual Atittude
Did I really say that?
BY DAVID JACK KENNY
BY DAVE HIRSCHMAN
43 Career Pilot
The new reality
56 Final Exam
Chop or turbulence?
BY PETER A. BEDELL
45 Instructor
Report
Like students, CFIs
also feel frustration
BY JOHN W. OLCOTT
47 Advanced
Training
At your fingertips
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the counsel of
Managing Editor
Sarah Deener in
"Sideways," which
begins on p. 30.
Photography by
Chris Rose
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Going visual
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S
WAY
SIDE
August 2020
L♥VE
P.
SLIP
THE
30
IN THIS ISSUE
FLY ENOUGH?
MAKE EVERY
HOUR COUNT
P. 36
NEW REALITY
AIRLINE FLYING
IN THE PANDEMIC
P. 43
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