When You Find Something Amiss
There’s a learning curve to the preflight inspection, which can be intimidating to fledgling pilots.
There’s a learning curve to the preflight inspection, which can be intimidating to fledgling pilots.
Meg Godlewski has been an aviation journalist for more than 20 years and a CFI for more than 18 years. If she is not flying or teaching aviation, she is writing about it. Meg is a founding member of the Pilot Proficiency Center at EAA AirVenture and excels at the application of simulation technology to flatten the learning curve. Follow Meg on Twitter @2Lewski.
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There’s a learning curve to the preflight inspection, which can be intimidating to fledgling pilots.