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From Analog to Digital

Plane and Pilot

My first logbook entry in 1992 records a flight in a Beechcraft Skipper , its compact cockpit and low-wing design thrilling for a novice pilot. Aviation then was a realm of VOR needles, paper charts, and the pure joy of stick-and-rudder flight. Today, glass cockpits dominate even entry-level aircraft.

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Navigating Instrument Failure at 10,000 Feet

Fear of Landing

How I conquered malfunctioning instruments in bad weather…on a scheduled flight that should’ve never taken off! By Lola Reid Allin, author of Highway to the Sky: An Aviator’s Journey Termination of a flight exemplifies expertise, not cowardice. ” Understand that complacency kills.