AOPA PILOT CONTENTS T-4 January 2019 SECTIONS 46 People Hops and props. 48 Strange Aircraft Vought V173 Flying Pancake. 83 PROFICIENCY & EFFICIENCY 80 Proficiency Helicopters and ice. 83 Ownership AOPA ACTION Time to hibernate. 12 A 'Win-Win' for GA TURBINE PILOT T-2 From the Editor The Lion Air mystery. T-4 Quick Look Beechcraft King Air F90. AOPA leads efforts for FBO pricing transparency. 85 On Instruments Upping single-pilot safety. PILOT BRIEFING 88 Savvy Maintenance T-10 Next-Generation Warbirds 30 Just for Fun T-7 A High Bar Former Olympian buys turboprop Tucanos. COMMENTARY DEPARTMENTS 6 President's Position 4 AOPA Online Aviation's next tipping point. Take your reading beyond these pages. 18 Waypoints The long and short of it. 20 Proficient Pilot E = MC . 2 22 Flying Life Work smarter, not harder. 24 Safety Spotlight An openness to learn. 26 For the Record What's not to "like." 14 Letters Out of the shop. 108 Fly by Wire Index of advertisers. 109 Answers for Pilots Final lap for ADS-B Out equipage. 112 Pilots Anson Fogel. 95 Ownership 33 Aviation History Out of the box. Amelia Earhart is "our favorite missing person." 98 Never Again 34 You Can Fly AOPA "leading the charge" for aviation education. 36 Musings Training my ear to hear. 38 Events Doing the Dead Cow drag. 40 Airplanes We Love Old reliable-Cessna 182. 44 Test Pilot Flying tigers, angry sharks. Lift Up CANCER SURVIVOR FLIGHT CAMP INSPIRES p. 74 The Voice of General Aviation Jumpers away. MEMBERSHIP NEWS & NOTES 100 AOPA Fly-Ins Celebrating the aviation life. 102 Tips from PIC "Mayday. Mayday. Mayday." 104 AOPA Air Safety Institute Flying the backcountry. 106 Pilot Protection Services BasicMed and your checkride. Rime and Reason ICING AVOIDANCE FOR HELICOPTERS p. 80 www.aopa.org/pilot | January 2019 | $10.95 January 2019 BIRD FROM BRAZIL Bird from Brazil Embraer Tucano A NEXT-GENERATION WARBIRD Embraer Tucano | Goodyear Airships | Skiplane Fly-In | Zlin Z 50 | Cancer Survivor Flight Camp The Embraer Tucano is a rugged, aerobatic, IFR traveler. To learn more about this multinational turboprop, see "Next-Generation Warbirds," p. T-10. Photography by Chad Slattery. p. T-10 Big Business GOODYEAR'S NEW RIDES p. 50 Tumbling Mirth THE ZLIN Z 50 TRANSFORMED AEROBATICS p. 66 www.aopa.org 2 | AOPA PILOT January 2019 Answering your ADS-B questions. Vitals check. TURBINE EDITION 33 92 ADS-B 32 AOPA Sweepstakes On Ice Read an excerpt from AOPA's Freedom to Fly: AOPA and the History of General Aviation. Breaking good. Match the movie with the airplane. SKIPLANE FLY-IN, MINUS SNOW p. 60 AVIATION HISTORY Holding dilemmas. Contact us at 800-USA-AOPA (872-2672)