Tips for one of aviation's most harried maneuvers Of all the flight procedures learned during training, few must be extracted from a pilot's bag of tricks on such short notice as the balked landing, otherwise known as the go-around. Lodged somewhere in that gray area between normal operations and emergency procedures, the go-around challenges the pilot to change plans in an instant while flying the aircraft smoothly through a transition from glide to climb, low power to full power, arrival configuration to departure configuration — all while avoiding a traffic conflict or monitoring some other kind of problem on the runway.

With additional oil cooling, the TLS becomes the Bravo Toss those aerodynamics texts, pitch that trusty slide rule, and send home the brainiac with the expensive degree in the next office. Here is what all that pesky airplane-design stuff boils down to — there are only two ways to make an airplane faster.

Getting the right attitude Piloting an airplane has been likened to a kind of elaborate juggling act. To do it safely, you have to do many things at once — keep an eye out for other traffic, keep track of groundspeed and fuel consumption, monitor the instrument panel, and watch out for signs of adverse weather, to name but a few important tasks.

An innovative new program puts cash back in your pocket AOPA's membership is a diverse group of people who share one common passion — the love of flying general aviation aircraft. AOPA has learned through studies that despite differing backgrounds, the majority of the membership agrees upon the need to control the cost of flying.

It is 8 a.m. in Barrow, Alaska.

As the new year begins, some of us now are at an age where we begin to reflect on the past, and I must admit to doing so at this time. It was 30 years ago that I learned to fly in a Cessna 150 at Sacramento, California's Executive Airport.

Runway incursion accidents involving general aviation aircraft and air carriers are rare, but even one is too many. The most recent occurred in Quincy, Illinois, in 1996, when a departing Beech King Air collided with a landing Beech 1900 (see "Safety Pilot: Collision at Quincy," December 1997 Pilot).

As William Kershner writes in "Practice Area: Aviation Myths and Insight," on page 66, the danger of operating an aircraft engine oversquare is one of aviation's greatest myths. Combine the oversquare discussion with a debate on the downwind turn and flying on the step and you can wile away an entire evening — or two.

"Should be a routine inspection. It's running great! No major squawks to report, just a few minor items you may want to check out." How many times do A&P-IAs hear that from aircraft owners as they drop off their baby at the doctor's for its first class flight physical? Those may have been my exact words when I delivered my airplane to the shop for its annual inspection.

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A swifter Swift I enjoyed your article about one of my favorite aircraft ("Swiftest of the Swifts," November 1997 Pilot). I think that it is one of the few aircraft left that has, even in its modified incarnations, as much class as a Twin Beech or a DC-3.

From a few notes scrawled by a cautious air mail pilot in the early 1930s has grown an international company that we know today simply as Jeppesen. When Elrey Jeppesen first began jotting down tidbits about the hostile Rocky Mountain terrain for reference in bad weather, he surely could not have imagined that he would found such an influential company.

As I total the Aviation Services numbers at the end of 1997, it's obvious that AOPA members are discovering the wealth of free aviation assistance that comes with their membership. Calls to the toll-free Pilot Information Center topped 128,000 last year, an increase of almost 30 percent over 1996.

Cessna hikes single-engine prices Cessna has increased the prices of both the model 172R Skyhawk and 182S Skylane to bring them more in line with actual production costs experienced over the past year. Although the price increases weren't yet official at press time, it is expected that the base price of a VFR Cessna 172R Skyhawk will jump from $124,500 to $133,700, while the price of the VFR 182S Skylane will increase from $190,600 to $217,900.

Garvey's Stance on GPS, ATC Wins Kudos New FAA Administrator Jane Garvey scored a hit with AOPA in November for her announced support of GPS precision approaches and a more rational approach to ATC modernization. AOPA President Phil Boyer praised Garvey for her promised 2001 operational date for the GPS Wide Area Augmentation System (WAAS) that would pave the way for precision instrument approaches at many airports that cannot afford a $1.5 million ILS.

Charlotte Kelley's list of accomplishments during her career in aviation takes up eight single-spaced typed pages of her résumé, and still she is not satisfied. It isn't that she wants more glory.

GENERAL Many pilots use the terms chop and turbulence interchangeably, but they are not the same. What is the difference? Estimate, within 5,000 feet, the service ceiling of the highest-flying birds.

Jeppesen's Guided Flight Discovery Face it — ground school can be downright boring. The texts are usually old and are in need of a major overhaul rather than just a biennial updating to include the latest regulations.

In the midst of the worst winter in history, I had managed to pick a week of benign weather in January to fly from my new home in North Carolina back into the frozen Northeast to do some business. VFR weather was predicted along the East Coast, so it seemed that I had planned the perfect day for the return trip.