PROFICIENCY & EFFICIENCY 78 EFFICIENCY 80 PROFICIENCY 86 FRUGAL FLIER 88 WX WATCH 92 NEVER AGAIN 41% of AOPA members cite a childhood dream/interest as driving their decision to learn to fly. IN A RECENT SURVEY, AOPA learned that inactive pilots cite cost, time pressures, maneuver is the Pylon 8-or Eights ANOTHER performanceloss of medical, and confidence as key issues for why they became inactive. on a Pylon-a ground-reference maneuver that really does describe a figure eight. | TECHNIQUE | Rust off A comeback path for rusty pilots B Y A LTO N K . M A R S H WHAT DO YOU GET when you combine a low-time pilot who can't afford to fly all that often with complicated JOHN UELAND 74 | AOPA PILOT March 2014