AOPA Pilot Magazine - Turbine Edition

By J. Mac McClellan

Experts can know the age of a horse by counting its teeth. Pilots can identify the age of an airplane design by counting the number of toggle switches on the instrument panel.

By Jim Coon

Theodore Roosevelt said it best in a speech entitled “Citizenship in a Republic”—widely recognized as “The Man in the Arena”—wherein he extols the virtues of being in the fight rather than observing or criticizing from the rafters.

By Sheila Harris

As a ground paramedic for a major healthcare system in Springfield, Missouri, Aaron Driskill (of Billings, Missouri) says unforecast adverse weather conditions led to his first encounter with his now-wife, Kasha, who was a flight paramedic for a different healthcare system in the same city.

By Jim Kahle

2020—That was the year my 15-year-old son, Hunter, was going to join me for my annual pilgrimage to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, for EAA AirVenture. Or so we thought.

By Jay Taffet

One of life’s greatest treasures is second chances. I’ve been lucky to have plenty of them, but nothing as special as the one that happened last summer.

By Glenn Ponas

The AOPA Foundation’s High School Aviation STEM curriculum, part of the You Can Fly High School Initiative, is available free to public, private, parochial, and charter high schools and career and technical centers across the United States.

By Rodney Whipple

All pilots have heard of the dreaded stall/spin on approach to land. Our instructors have warned us of the dire consequences of slow, uncoordinated turns when turning on to final approach. The result is usually a unrecoverable, fatal crash as the aircraft is too low for stall or spin recovery and it dives rapidly to the ground. I experienced such an event and survived.

By Kevin Knight

Pain and airplanes don’t go well together. Numerous medical studies report physical pain harms concentration and memory, both of which are vital to safe piloting.