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Avionics and Gear

New Bag of Tricks

More on Garmin 430 shortcuts, including intercepting radials, departure procedures, avoiding airspace, and marking extended runway centerlines

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Learning Experiences

Mechanics Lean

The new shop made the right call based on the information in front of them, but add in the information I had and it added up to something else.

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Features

Flying the Mids

Flight-level fear? For aircraft capable of getting there, the teens offer the best compromise between higher performance and high-altitude risks

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Features

Strapping In

Seatbelts are in many ways more important in airplanes than cars. To stay off the panel, replace your webbing and use belts and shoulder straps right

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Unicom

Unicom: 03/04

Casting Aspersions
To say that I am outraged would be a gross understatement! For the first time in my many years of reading the NTSB reports section of your periodical I noted that you identified the pilot by name in the report on the October 2 accident in Clayton, Ga.

In my opinion, you callously insulted perhaps the greatest aviator in aviation history, bar none. I have followed the career of Gen. Yeager since my Air Force days with SAC in the mid-50s and have always had the greatest of respect and admiration for the man.

His work as a test pilot in the 40s, 50s and 60s probably saved the lives of more pilots in the Air Force (and general aviation, for that matter…

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Features

Finely Tuned Flying

Trim makes life behind the yoke better, but only if you know your system and its working as advertised. Check the mechanicals and tune up your technique

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Critical Moments

Friend or Foe

Youve got an F-16 off your wing and the radios dead. Youre not sure what you did, but you think theyre serious.What are you going to do now?

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