AOPA PILOT CONTENTS January 2018 SECTIONS 40 42 Fly-Outs Barnstormer's Family Bar & Grill. 44 AOPA Fly-Ins Covering the country. 46 Milestones Piper celebrates its 80th. AOPA ACTION 98 Blame it all on my roots. 18 Waypoints Putting weather tech to work. 20 Proficient Pilot Turbulent advice. 22 Flying Life 4 AOPA Online AOPA named top trade association. 92 Technique PILOT BRIEFING 94 On Instruments What's the frequency? 14 Letters U.S. military drone attacks. The six-minute solution. 109 Fly by Wire Index of advertisers. 110 Answers for Pilots Elwood Schapansky. 96 Ownership Show a little strut love. 34 Test Pilot 98 Maintenance Where's the smoking gun? 35 Budget Buy V-tail Bonanza. 101 Never Again A cloud on the runway. 36 AOPA Sweepstakes Not your grandfather's Levi's. 37 You Can Fly 'No better time to become a pilot.' MEMBERSHIP NEWS & NOTES 102 AOPA Fly-Ins Touchdown in Tampa. 38 Just for Fun Contest inspires pilots. 39 People 104 Member Services ELT equipage. What's on your shelf? 106 AOPA Air Safety Institute 40 Musings Do your part. Our special day. 108 Insurance Services Denied! BIG IDEAS Cool Cat COUGAR TWIN A RARE FIND p. 72 Maintenance Mystery Craftsmanship A FIX WITHOUT A CAUSE p. 98 The Voice of General Aviation SPACESHIPS MADE TO ORDER p. 64 www.aopa.org/pilot | January 2018 | $6.95 January 2018 The Wainfan Facetmobile Riding the rails. 30 Aviation History The airplane that never was. 112 Pilots 31 Taking the high view. Take your reading beyond these pages. 24 Safety Spotlight Bad form. 89 ADS-B 13 On the Hill The dark side of flying. 26 Pilot Counsel Into the WILD. Association addressing top issues on behalf of GA. Slower is faster. Training paradigm. 86 Proficiency 12 Working for You COMMENTARY DEPARTMENTS 6 President's Position PROFICIENCY & EFFICIENCY STANDING OVATION Mooney Ovation | Cosmosphere | Grumman Cougar | Back at the Ranch Land of Oz BIKING, FLYING CONVERGE IN THE OZARKS p. 58 Back at the Ranch A CESSNA, A STAGGERWING, A SLICE OF PARADISE p. 78 Standing Ovation Mooney M20U Mooney is banking on competitive performance-combined with a left-side door and new avionics-to lure hardcore pilots to its Ovation Ultra. Dave Hirschman's story "Climbing Back" begins on page 50. www.aopa.org ULTRA UPDATES FOR A MOONEY CLASSIC p. 50 Contact us at 800-USA-AOPA (872-2672) 2 | AOPA PILOT January 2018http://www.aopa.org/pilot