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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

'AOPA Pilot' December 2009

This Month’s Columns

President’s Position

Flying healthy.

Letters
Waypoints

The future of engine controls.

Proficient Pilot

The left seat.

Pilotage

Rough Riders

License to Learn

A turn for the better.

Pilot Counsel

Pilot and aircraft documents.

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 SightBy 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.

Read The Journal >>

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.

View The Digital Issues >>

AOPA 2009 Let’s Go Flying Sweepstakes

2009 Let's Go Flying SweepstakesNew year, new sweepstakes. The Let’s Go Flying Cirrus SR22 will crisscross North America in 2009 to highlight the tremendous utility of general aviation.

Sweepstakes Home Page >>

Turbine Aircraft Directory

See a listing and specifications for single-pilot turbine aircraft.

Explore the Directory >>

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.

See the Interactive Feature >>

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.

Read the Stories Now >>

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