AOPA Services

The Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association is general aviation's advocate and the largest, most influential aviation association in the world. Its membership of more than 415,000 comprises nearly two-thirds of all pilots in the United States. Visit and bookmark our Web site designed especially to serve the information needs of student pilots. All AOPA Flight Training members, including those with free six-month introductory memberships, have full access to AOPA's resources, including the members-only areas of AOPA Flight Training Online and AOPA Online.

Join or renew and Catch-A-Cardinal

Do you dream of owning your own airplane? Does the thought of being able to one day go to the airport, open your hangar door, and see your baby inside just waiting to be flown get you a little too excited? The only thing that could possibly be better than owning your own airplane is winning it!

AOPA's annual airplane sweepstakes awards a completely refurbished, exciting, better-than-new airplane to one lucky winner. This year's AOPA Catch-A-Cardinal sweepstakes features a 1977 Cessna 177B Cardinal--think of it as the Cessna 172's sportier sister. We started with a 180-horsepower, fixed-gear (Cardinals also came as retractables), 30-year-old airplane and turned it in to one of the most capable light GA airplanes in the sky.

When it's delivered to the lucky winner early in 2008, the Cardinal will have spent a year undergoing an extensive refurbishment. This includes airframe repairs and upgrades, dual Garmin GNS430W WAAS GPS receivers, a Garmin GMX200 multifunction display, S-Tec System Fifty Five X autopilot, WX-500 Stormscope, standby vacuum system, J.P. Instruments engine analyzer, and Bendix/King KCS 55A flight control system. Included, of course, is real-time traffic and weather. Slap on a snazzy new paint job and plush new interior, and your new Cardinal is a real ramp standout.

To pass the time while you dream about your new airplane, you can fly this Cardinal from your personal computer. Flight1 Software, in partnership with AOPA, developed an add-on you can fly in Microsoft Flight Simulator X. The simulated airplane is free, it flies just like the real thing, and it offers the upgraded panel to boot. Even the paint scheme is an exact likeness.

AOPA Flight Training readers with the free six-month AOPA membership are not eligible; see the official sweepstakes rules. To be automatically entered in the sweepstakes, all you have to do is join AOPA as a paid member or renew your membership this year. Doing so entitles you to all the benefits the association brings--and it could win you an airplane.

PILOT INFORMATION CENTER Members can receive answers to flight training and other aviation questions, and join or renew by telephone, 8:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. Eastern time, Monday through Friday
800/USA-AOPA (872-2672)
Via the Internet	ft.aopa.org/ask
24-HOUR ONLINE MEMBER ASSISTANCE To join or renew, or for information about the free six-month AOPA Flight Training membership, e-mail [email protected] or visit the Web site. A wide variety of aviation information is available 24 hours a day, seven days a week.
AOPA AIR SAFETY FOUNDATION ONLINE SAFETY CENTER Dedicated to providing general aviation pilot education and safety programs online.
Via the Internet	www.asf.org
Dial	800/638-3101
AOPA MEMBER PRODUCTS
AOPA Aircraft Financing Program	800/62-PLANE
AOPA Aircraft Insurance Program	800/622-AOPA
Non-owned aircraft and CFI policies available
AOPA Credit Card Program	800/523-7666
AOPA Legal Services Plan	800/USA-AOPA
Other products	800/USA-AOPA
RESOURCES FOR STUDENTS
Ask an AOPA flight instructor	ft.aopa.org/ask
AOPA Flight Training magazine article archive	ft.aopa.org/archive
Aviation library	ft.aopa.org/library
Supplemental information arranged by stage of training	ft.aopa.org/student
Virtual flight bag, including online weather and airport directory	ft.aopa.org/flightbag
NEW ADDRESS? Send your new address and membership number to AOPA, 421 Aviation Way, Frederick, Maryland 21701
Fax	301/695-2375
Via the Internet	www.aopa.org/coa-form.html
ONLINE GUIDE TO AOPA MEMBER SERVICES
	www.aopa.org/join/