AOPA Pilot Magazine

January 2025

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Pilot Magazine

| February 1, 2025

Hop is my copilot

It’s a brilliant blue-sky day in Denver and we have an important mission: flying over the Rockies through mountain passes between 11,000 feet and 12,500 feet to Colorado’s western slope where we will collect bags of fresh hops to brew a beer called Hop is My Copilot.

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Pilot Magazine

| January 1, 2025

Mountain-high aspirations

Nearly 40 years ago, a young woman found the right airplane.

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Pilot Magazine

| January 1, 2025

Signing Off

Mark Baker had been a member for years when he took the helm at AOPA in 2013. But like most new employees, he quickly had a revelation—there’s a lot more to the association than most people realize. Even longtime members like Baker can get a bit of shock when they step behind the curtain.

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Fly with AOPA

| January 1, 2025

Use the checklist

YouTube isn’t necessarily one of the valuable resources that pilots routinely use for preflight planning, flight training, or proficiency, but there are certainly some great channels that might be helpful to you.

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Pilot Magazine

| January 1, 2025

Expect the unexpected

You would think aviation stories are straightforward: This is the airplane, and this is the pilot. But we are a creative bunch here in AOPA Media and we like to take our readers on unusual treks.

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Fly with AOPA

| January 1, 2025

Aircraft checkouts

Getting checked out in a new aircraft is a rite of passage usually driven by insurance companies, not aviation regulations.

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Pilot Magazine

| January 1, 2025

First-time buyer?

“I’ve just found the perfect airplane for sale. I can’t live without it. Help me make the right decision soon—it could sell this weekend!”

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Pilot Magazine

| January 1, 2025

Two useless engines

By Ken Smith

One of the reasons pilots fly twin-engine airplanes is for the redundancy. If one engine fails, another one is still operating to get you safely back to an airport.

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Pilot Magazine

| January 1, 2025

Surfing the friendly skies

By Andre Pinto

Does surfing have anything to do with flying? I say yes!

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Pilot Magazine

| January 1, 2025

Similar triangles

“How would you convince me that Sewanee’s runway is long enough for our safe departure?”

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Pilot Magazine

| January 1, 2025

All in the family

Aircraft ownership makes it possible for pilots to share the freedom and joy of flight as these members acknowledge in their recent submissions to our “Why I Love My Airplane” section.

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Pilot Magazine

| January 1, 2025

Fun with Leah Froehlich

“The hardest part about teaching might be not dying.”

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Pilot Magazine

| January 1, 2025

Temps gone wild

“I just flew my Cessna 182 from Kansas City to St. Louis to drop off a passenger there,” Frank Annecchini told the operator who answered his call to the 24/7 breakdown assistance hotline operated by my company, Savvy Aviation.

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Pilot Briefing

| January 1, 2025

Glenn Curtiss

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Pilot Briefing

| January 1, 2025

Behold, the future

Bristell may market its new MOSAIC-ready 916M as a luxurious light sport aircraft with a Garmin G3X, a 51-inch-wide cabin, and great customer support, but the thing buyers will most brag about is how much of a beast it is on the runway.

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Pilot Briefing

| January 1, 2025

From humble beginnings

Mark Scheuer was a young engineer working for Hewlett-Packard when he bought his first airplane in 1985, a Grumman AA-1.

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Pilot Magazine

| January 1, 2025

Celebrating flying clubs

Klamath Basin Flyers is the 250th flying club to join the AOPA Flying Club Network.

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Pilot Magazine

| January 1, 2025

F Street Station

F Street Station is a true pilot’s retreat in one of the hotspots of aviation: Anchorage, Alaska. Tucked into a downtown street, this bar and grill is a must visit for all pilots, even though it is one of those rare aviation restaurants not immediately adjacent to an airport.

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Pilot Briefing

| January 1, 2025

AOPA presidential TFR email alerts

Temporary flight restrictions (TFRs) are regulatory measures that restrict or prohibit access to certain areas of airspace for a limited time.

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Pilot Magazine

| January 1, 2025

Safe flights start on the ground

By JP Dice

Why does it keep happening? Pilots keep flying into dangerous weather with often fatal results.

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Pilot Magazine

| January 1, 2025

Stay awhile

One of the most fun parts of the AOPA Sweepstakes project is flying the airplane around, showing it off, and showing you, future winner, what it can do.

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Pilot Magazine

| January 1, 2025

Just out of reach

Glide rings are a powerful safety tool that tell pilots at a glance whether they’re close enough to an airport to glide to it—but how trustworthy are they?

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Pilot Briefing

| January 1, 2025

News from NBAA-BACE

Textron Aviation announced a trio of new Cessna Citation jets will enter service starting in 2026.

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Pilot Briefing

| January 1, 2025

Going back for more

Join AOPA at the Buckeye Air Fair at Arizona’s Buckeye Airport (BXK) for three days of high-quality pilot education, aerial entertainment, and aviation enthusiast camaraderie.

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