AOPA Pilot Magazine
Featured Stories
See the video. Take a look
Once you’ve flown with synthetic vision technology, a traditional display doesn’t seem adequate anymore—fly it yourself in this online video.
Read the blog. From the editors
Our expert aviation writers have interesting perspectives on the world of general aviation—they live and breathe it every day. Get into their heads by reading their journals—and give them your feedback.
See the resources. Do you hear thunder?
Increase your thunderstorm avoidance skills by reviewing the AOPA Air Safety Foundation Thunderstorm Awareness Resources page.
See the slide show. Join the team!
The Iditarod Sled Dog Race, Alaska’s annual competition from Anchorage to Nome on the Bering Sea, represents the ultimate challenge for musher dog and team. Here is more gorgeous photography shot by Cameron Lawson for the magazine.
ISSUE: May 2008
This Month’s Columns
President’s Position
Letters
Waypoints
Proficient Pilot
Pilotage
License to Learn
Safety Pilot
Pilot Counsel
More on liability release forms
This Month’s Features
AOPA 2007 Annual Report: Team Effort
By Phil Boyer
Cirrus SR20-G3: Reaching Maturity
By Paul J. Richfield
Turbine Pilot: 850 Plus 1000
By Thomas A. Horne
Turbine Pilot: G1000 Training for the TBM850
By Ian Blair Fries
Turbine Pilot: What It Looks Like
By Mark R. Twombly
Turbine Pilot: Routings
By Rick Wheldon
Get Your Glass Sweepstakes: More Than Skin Deep
By Ian J. Twombly
Avionics: Seeing Eye to Eye
By Dave Hirschman
Airframe and Powerplant: The New Powerplants
By Steven W. Ells
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 2008 Get Your Glass Sweepstakes
New year, new sweepstakes. Follow along with Associate Editor Ian J. Twombly as he oversees the refurbishment of the 1976 Piper Archer II.
Turbine Aircraft Directory
See a listing and specifications for single-pilot turbine aircraft.
AOPA Pilot General Aviation Photography Contest
The 2008 AOPA Pilot photography contest opens January 1. Grab your camera and go out to the airport today!
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.
