AOPA Pilot Magazine
Featured Stories
See the video. Bound for the Bahamas
Editor at Large Tom Horne and Photographer Chris Rose joined the Bahamas Tourism Office in a five-day swing through the islands with 30 other people in 12 airplanes in this online video.
See the video. GA Serves America: The Accidental Aviator
Technical Editor Mike Collins introduces us to Erika Thompson, a young aviator who illustrates how general aviation serves America by supplying pilots to commercial operators.
See the video. The Miramar Airshow
Senior Editor Al Marsh recently met pilots Eddie Kisfaludy, an oceanographer, and his girlfriend Natasha Stenbock, who produced this video of the Miramar Airshow in California.
ISSUE: December 2009
This Month’s Columns
President’s Position
Letters
Waypoints
The future of engine controls.
Proficient Pilot
Pilotage
License to Learn
Pilot Counsel
This Month’s Features
Bound for the Bahamas
By Thomas A. Horne
Safety Pilot Landmark Accidents: Comfortable and Complacent
By Bruce Landsberg
Captive No More
By Phil Scott
Let’s Go Flying Sweepstakes: As Good As It Gets
By Dave Hirschman
GA Serves America: The Accidental Aviator
By Mike Collins
The Resurrection
By Stephen Coonts
AOPA Medical Services Program: Don’t Get Lost
By Julie Summers Walker
Technique: How to Get an A
in C and D
By Alton K. Marsh
Turbine Pilot: RNP Primer
By Marc K. Henegar
RNP in Sight—By Thomas A. Horne
Wx Watch: Icing Intensities
By Thomas A. Horne
Avionics: The Aera Era Begins
By Dave Hirschman
Online Exclusives
Reporting Points
Join AOPA Pilot editors as they travel and report on general aviation. Read their journal entries in “Reporting Points.” But don’t let them do all the writing. Here’s your chance to share your own stories and comments with the editors.
AOPA Pilot—Then and Now
For more than five decades, AOPA Pilot has been the voice of general aviation and chronicled the industry, the events, the people, and the airplanes. Come along on a digital journey and flip through Pilot’s first edition, the March 1958 issue, as if you have the original paper copy in your hands; then let the March 2008 fiftieth anniversary edition come to life with videos and links throughout the pages.
AOPA 2009 Let’s Go Flying Sweepstakes
New year, new sweepstakes. The Let’s Go Flying Cirrus SR22 will crisscross North America in 2009 to highlight the tremendous utility of general aviation.
Turbine Aircraft Directory
See a listing and specifications for single-pilot turbine aircraft.
A Day in the Life of America's Airports
Celebrate general aviation's greatest resource and experience a typical Saturday at 11 different types of GA airports across America. See what happened as chronicled by AOPA Pilot's team of writers and photographers, and AOPA member-submitted photo essays.
Never Again Online
"Never Again" is one of the most widely read sections AOPA Pilot. It's presented to allow pilots to learn from the experiences of others. Read a previously unpublished "Never Again" lesson each month on AOPA Online.
