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LETTERS
Pro tips

I enjoyed Catherine Cavagnaro's
article "Proficiency: Landing
Like a Pro"-with 6,000 hours,
still learning. Thanks.
I teach aerobatics at night
with a full moon, taking off
around 9 p.m. so the moon is
about 30 degrees above the
horizon. My favorite is the loop
off the left wing of a low-wing
aircraft, keeping the moon
shining up the wing all the way
around.
Neil Cosentino
AOPA 707100
Tampa, Florida

Cleared direct

Anytime you get a clearance somewhere you're not
expecting or prepared for
("Waypoints: Cleared Direct"),

I have found a request back to
ATC for an initial heading will
give you breathing space to sort
it out. They're usually happy to
oblige because they don't have
to guess what you're up to for
the next 5 minutes.
Rich Romaine
AOPA 3704182
Hamilton, Virginia

I could have written Thomas
B. Haines' story about being
cleared direct in the latest
edition of AOPA Pilot magazine. My first airplane was a
1974 Cessna 182 with a KNS80 RNAV unit. We thought
we were the coolest! So much
of what he said brought back
memories of spreading out
charts on the table and plotting waypoints for inputting

into the system upon startup.
Trying to do that while flying
was a challenge, no doubt. We
did also have a VFR-only loranC, which, as you can guess, is
what we actually used to navigate and actually had it slaved
to the autopilot. So, the RNAV
made us "legal," and the loran
made it easy.
I thoroughly enjoyed reliving those days while reading
Haines' editorial. Thank you.
Oh, how different things are
today, huh?
Richard Traunero
AOPA 1173158
Tiffin, Ohio

Errata

"Pilot Products: Certified
Foggles" (April 2020 AOPA
Pilot) referenced a free shipping

offer that expired by the time
the magazine reached homes.
"ADS-B: Veiled Threat" (March
AOPA Pilot) included an incorrect url for fltplan.com.
"Grandma's 182" (May AOPA
Pilot) incorrectly identified the
name of the company founded
by Pat and Julie Belanger. It is
The 111th Aerial Photography
Squadron.
AOPA Pilot regrets the
errors.
We welcome your comments. Send letters to Editor,
AOPA Pilot, 421 Aviation Way,
Frederick, Maryland 21701 or
pilot@aopa.org. Letters may be
edited for length and style.

HANGAR TALK

Kyle Bushman's shop in Creswell, Oregon, is a busy place, as Senior Features
Editor JULIE SUMMERS WALKER and Senior Photographer MIKE FIZER discovered when they visited to see the exceptional work at the Ragwood
Refactory ("BEAUTY OR THE BEAST?" p. 50). Customers and friends stop by
to see Bushman and check on his current projects, so much so that the
youthful owner sometimes finds it hard to get his work finished. "We were
just another distraction for Kyle," says Walker, "but he puts the fun in everything." To interview the tall owner for video, the short writer had to stand on
a workbench and that got everyone laughing. Bushman shared the photo
he took on Facebook, where he regularly updates his many followers. He
wrote: "Thankfully I had work stands because Julie Summers Walker isn't
very tall. Mike's words to me were It looks like you're looking at your shoes."
Walker admits she could be shrinking with age, but agrees with Bushman-
working together was a blast.
When a retired U.S. Air Force C-130H Hercules landed at AOPA's headquarters airport, to be disassembled and moved
across town, two AOPA photojournalists had an idea. "Let's shoot a time lapse of the process," said MIKE COLLINS, AOPA
Pilot technical editor, inspired by time lapses he and coworker David
Tulis created last year during AOPA's eightieth anniversary fly-in.
An enclosed cupola on the roof of the old terminal building offered
an ideal perspective, as well as protection from the elements for
his Nikon digital single-lens reflex camera. "We didn't expect the
process to take six months," he said. When Collins reviewed early
photos to check the quality, however, he was surprised by the variety of moments captured-rain, fog, snow, a bolt of lightning, a
rainbow. That led to a thorough review of 23,836 pictures, and you
can see the best in "A MOMENT IN TIME (LAPSE)" beginning on p. 66.

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