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DEBRIEF

A pilot's perspective
THE BUCKS navigated
the entire trip by pilotage
and dead reckoning.

RINKER BUCK

HIS PILOT EXPERIENCE IS AN OPEN BOOK
Rinker Buck captured the imagination of readers in his bestselling memoir Flight of
Passage, in which he described flying from New Jersey to California in a refurbished
Piper Cub with his older brother Kernahan. They were just 17 and 15. Flight of
Passage is a snapshot in time—the 1960s—as well as a riveting travel adventure.

WHO: Rinker Buck
OCCUPATION: Writer,

journalist

HOURS: Just under

1,000.

EXTRA: Buck’s latest
book, to be published in
2014, describes a trip by
horse-drawn wagon over
the Oregon Trail.

STARTED IN AVIATION… It’s not inaccurate to say that 30 percent of people
who are flying today originated in flying
families...So that’s how we got started.
EARLY CHALLENGES… My brother
was a much more natural pilot than I
was. He was absolutely fearless in the
airplane. I was a great navigator. I was
more cautious. I found the challenge of
navigation really, really fun. Since we
flew around so much in airplanes without radios, which was very common, I
learned the old-fashioned way.

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DENSITY ALTITUDE…We would take off
from these airports [out West] in the
90-horsepower Cub, which was really
quite lively for that time and model of
Cub, and it would take forever to get off
the ground. We landed at an airport in
Arizona and smoke came off the tires.
Our groundspeed was so fast. We were
still indicating 65 mph over the fence
but we were probably doing 90. We

learned that all that stuff we read about
is really true. It’s not just some theory.
GOING BACK IN TIME… When I wrote
the book I reflew most of the routes in
a Cessna 182. I was curious about those
old airports—could I describe them
well? We landed at 30 airports, and 27 of
them are still there and they look exactly
the same.
ADVICE FOR STUDENTS… I think it’s
important to read Wolfgang Langewiesche’s Stick and Rudder. The principles have not changed. You might be
flying a Cirrus with a glass cockpit, but
it's still subject to the same laws.

JANE SCHAUK

EXTRA TRAINING… My father gave me
spin training [at age 14]. When I soloed

a high-performance glider that same
year…it had a tendency to drop off on
one wing [during stalls]. I pulled it up
to stall it, and it spun on me. I wouldn’t
have known what to do if my father
hadn’t given me spin training.



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Flight Training - August 2013

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of Flight Training - August 2013

Flight Training - August 2013
Contents
Member Benefits
Right Seat
Centerline
Letters
Best of Both Worlds
Success Story AOPA Summit
How It Works
News
After the Checkride
News Tech Tip
Training Products
Final Exam
News
Flight Training Excellence Award Winner
ASI News
Flying Carpet
Accident Report
Flight Lesson
Birth of the Boom
Back in the Hood
Slow Down
Technique
Weather
Backseat Flying
Career Advisor
Tech Talk
The Post-Colgan World
Surprising Similarities
Kindness but Not Weakness
Advertiser Index
Debrief
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Flight Training - August 2013 - Cover2
Flight Training - August 2013 - Contents
Flight Training - August 2013 - 2
Flight Training - August 2013 - 3
Flight Training - August 2013 - Member Benefits
Flight Training - August 2013 - 5
Flight Training - August 2013 - Right Seat
Flight Training - August 2013 - 7
Flight Training - August 2013 - Centerline
Flight Training - August 2013 - 9
Flight Training - August 2013 - Letters
Flight Training - August 2013 - 11
Flight Training - August 2013 - Best of Both Worlds
Flight Training - August 2013 - 13
Flight Training - August 2013 - Success Story AOPA Summit
Flight Training - August 2013 - How It Works
Flight Training - August 2013 - News
Flight Training - August 2013 - After the Checkride
Flight Training - August 2013 - News Tech Tip
Flight Training - August 2013 - Training Products
Flight Training - August 2013 - Final Exam
Flight Training - August 2013 - News
Flight Training - August 2013 - Flight Training Excellence Award Winner
Flight Training - August 2013 - ASI News
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Flight Training - August 2013 - Flying Carpet
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Flight Training - August 2013 - Accident Report
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Flight Training - August 2013 - Flight Lesson
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Flight Training - August 2013 - Birth of the Boom
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Flight Training - August 2013 - Back in the Hood
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Flight Training - August 2013 - Slow Down
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Flight Training - August 2013 - Technique
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Flight Training - August 2013 - Weather
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Flight Training - August 2013 - Backseat Flying
Flight Training - August 2013 - Career Advisor
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Flight Training - August 2013 - Tech Talk
Flight Training - August 2013 - The Post-Colgan World
Flight Training - August 2013 - Surprising Similarities
Flight Training - August 2013 - Kindness but Not Weakness
Flight Training - August 2013 - Advertiser Index
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