AOPA Pilot Magazine - February 2014 - 102

NEWS & NOTES

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Educating pilots on improving their skills and enhancing GA safety is a core tenet of the
AOPA Foundation's Air Safety Institute and its educational programs. Your contribution
funds these activities and ensures that ASI continues to address the needs of pilots
everywhere. Show your support today (www.aopafoundation.org/donate).

Rusty on interpreting instrument
approach procedures?
Shake it off with ASI's IFR safety quizzes
IF YOU'RE looking for a fun and quick way to test your instrument procedures knowledge, then take a moment and hone your
skills with an Air Safety Institute IFR safety quiz. From The Hokie
Approach to Flying Rogue to A Visit to the Grey Lady, you'll be
challenged with some unusual if not unique instrument approach
procedures.
For example, you'll be tested on flying the LOC/DME BC-B
approach into Rogue Valley International Airport in Oregon,
which is surrounded by hills as tall as 9,500 feet. Grab the opportunity to guide your Cessna 182 into foggy Nantucket, Massachusetts.
And you'll be expected to find the runway in IMC while executing
ILS, LDA, and VOR approaches at the various airports included in
the IFR safety quiz lineup. The quizzes have been recently optimized for the iPad so you can take them anywhere your tablet goes
(www.airsafetyinstitute.org/safetyquizzes).
You need to correctly answer 80 percent, or eight out of 10
questions, to pass a quiz. And with a passing score you also qualify for AOPA Accident Forgiveness credit.

VIEW THE

VIDEO

TRY YOUR hand at landing on

the foggy island of Nantucket,
Massachusetts, in this online course.

Are your takeoffs as good as your landings?
View the Air Safety Institute's new
'Takeoffs and Landings' video series
HOW SHARP are your crosswind and shortfield landing skills? A new video series,
made possible by the Canadian Owners
and Pilots Association and the Donner
Canadian Foundation, unveils the finer
points of practicing and honing your takeoff and landing technique beyond currency
requirements. The first installment in the
series, Takeoffs and Landings: Determining
an Abort Point, helps pilots learn how to
choose an abort point if your takeoff roll
isn't going as planned. Also view the

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next three video segments-on
short-field landings, normal takeoffs, and crosswind landings-to
understand simple rules of thumb
we all can live by (www.airsafety
institute.org/safetyvideos).

VIEW THE

VIDEO

NEW ASI WINTER/SPRING SEMINAR
ACCIDENT CASE STUDY: LIVE
WEB

Visit (www.airsafetyinstitute.org/seminars) for dates and locations near you.

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