AOPA PILOT CONTENTS January 2020 SECTIONS 44 Musings Making a difference. 46 You Can Fly T-10 TURBINE PILOT T-2 From the Editor T-7 Turbine Profile eVTOLS and ultralights. Fly fast, fly slow. T-4 Aviation Finance T-10 Super-Mid Step-Up Yours, mine, ours. Up front with the Praetor 600. 95 PILOT BRIEFING 30 First Look Thunderbird for a day. 32 2020 Sweepstakes Time to enter the clouds. 34 Budget Buy Accolades for advocacy. Take your reading beyond these pages. 36 Aircraft Name-dropping. 22 Flying Life 109 Fly by Wire Index of advertisers. Flying lessons from an 8-year-old. 110 Tips from PIC 24 Safety Spotlight 112 Pilots Play ball. 100-hour inspection due? 35 Destinations Winter jet streams. 91 Savvy Maintenance Tense bolts. 95 Technique Trim and power. 100 Never Again MEMBERSHIP NEWS & NOTES Ugly outside, delightful inside. 102 AOPA Fly-Ins 39 Test Pilot Something for everyone. Flying farm. 104 AOPA Air Safety Institute 40 You Can Fly Changing the world. Winter weather woes. 41 Pilot Products 106 Turn On Your Notifications 42 Industry News 26 For the Record 88 Wx Watch Sputtering into Vegas. AirSync. Tim Tucker. It's 2020. Now what? Real deal. Be a snowbird. Lone beagle. 85 ADS-B 97 Proficiency Cessna 140. 4 AOPA Online 20 Proficient Pilot Ahead of the game. AOPA, industry oppose bills. 6 President's Position 14 Letters 78 Technique 12 On the Hill DEPARTMENTS Winging in the new year. PROFICIENCY & EFFICIENCY AOPA ACTION COMMENTARY 18 Waypoints Flight Training Experience Awards. Gulfstream G700 debuts. They get you coming and going. Fly with AOPA. 108 Member Products and Services Altered states. Wild Ride FLYING WITH THE THUNDERBIRDS p. 29 By a Nose JOY OF THE NOSEGEAR CUB p. 36 TURBINE EDITION The Voice of General Aviation One of a Kind REVIVING A KINNER SPORTWING p. 50 aopa.org/pilot | January 2020 | $10.95 January 2020 PRAETOR POWER Embraer Praetor 600 | Garmin Autoland | Kinner Sportwing | Jet Pilot Goes Barnstorming GARMIN UNVEILS AUTOLAND p. 58 Fly Fast, Fly Slow JET PILOT GOES BARNSTORMING p. T-7 EMBRAER PRAETOR 600 Praetor STYLE AND LUXURY Power AT MACH 0.83 p. T-10 aopa.org 41 Look Ma, No Hands With a luxurious interior and fly-by-wire flight control, the Embraer Praetor 600 resembles its predecessor Legacy 500- with an extra boost in speed and range. Read more about this super-midsize jet in "Super-Mid Step-Up," which begins on p. T-10. Photography by Chris Rose. PILOT PRODUCTS Bose ProFlight Series 2 2 | AOPA PILOT January 2020 Contact us at 800-USA-AOPA (872-2672)