P&E PROFICIENCY DOGLEG APPROACHES like the VOR-B to Huntsville Executive Airport may catch you off 98 | guard if you only fly the few approaches near your home field. I suspect this dogleg keeps Huntsville Executive traffic away from aircraft bound for the Huntsville International Airport and the nearby restricted areas. I've seen some creative ways of flying the approach and this candidate flew only a 43-degree course, essentially removing the dogleg from the approach. Later when I asked what went wrong, he explained, "Well, I've never seen an approach like that before and it threw me for a loop." I suggested that he get more practice away from his home airport so he'd encounter more variety. Then I realized that my own proficiency regimen suffered from the very same homogeneity as his, so I had yet another opportunity to take my own advice. I called and found an ATD at the Smyrna Airport in Tennessee, and scheduling was easy. When I walked into the flight school, instructor Alex Harcrow was running the Precision Flight Controls CRX ATD for his student Faith Berg. He graciously demonstrated how the program worked while Berg skillfully navigated the virtual aircrafthttp://ciescorp.com