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VOLUME.26 / NUMBER.10
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DEPARTMENTS
6 Member Benefits
Save time, money with AOPA
42 Weather
High or low: Which way to go?
By Jack Williams
22 Flight Lesson
There go the radios
By Stephen K. Hunter
24 Accident Report
Downhill from here
53 Advertiser Index
Aviation marketplace
56 Debrief
Chuck Aaron
By Dan Namowitz
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"LOVE FOR AN
AIRPLANE IS
SOMETHING I'LL
HAPPILY SHARE
WITH MECHANICS.
IT'S ALL PART OF
THE BOND AMONG
PILOTS, AIRPLANES,
AND THE GOOD
FOLKS WHO KEEP
THEM RUNNING."
-GREG BROWN
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COMMENTARY
4 Right Seat
18 Around the Patch
Freedom!
Boxes of life
By Ian J. Twombly
By Heather Baldwin
8 Letters
Teaching spins
20 Flying Carpet
We are not alone
By Greg Brown
PREFLIGHT
ADVANCED PILOT
10 The Great Northwest
47 Career Pilot
12 Success Stories
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13 How it Works
14 After the Checkride
15 News
ASI News
Show me the money
By Pete Bedell
49 Instructor Report
Keep on steppin'
By Rod Machado
50 Accident Analysis
See no evil
16 AOPA Fly-In
17 Final Exam
By David Jack Kenny
51 Career Advisor
By Wayne Phillips
22
FLIGHT TRAINING (ISSN 1047-6415), OCTOBER 2014 (VOL. 26, NO. 10) is a monthly magazine produced and distributed by the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association. Flight Training membership dues are $59 per year. Current FAA student pilot certificate holders can receive a complimentary six-month Introductory Membership by completely filling out a request form or by sending their name, address, student pilot certificate number, and the name and address of their flight instructor and school to
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