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#254 Flight Instructors

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"By the way, since this article was written, my pall Jamie Klaes has not only become a flight instructor, but she is now in charge of a program to teach indigenous kids from villages all over Alaska to fly. A better person could not have been found".

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#232 The Go-Around

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"He was carrying power, even though he was too high.  But we’re used to seeing that.  After all, that’s how Acme trains.  As he approached short final, we called to THAT unhearing pilot, “Go around, go around!”

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#213 “Flap Usage

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"If this were a forum the comments column would go for twenty or thirty pages and grow steadily!  The “Cheeto-eating Trolls” would be pounding their keyboards like crazy, with beads of sweat pouring off their brows as quickly as the insults flow from their computers. "

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#206 Engine Failure

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"They are also taught that, contrary to what is often taught at “Acme”, it’s not the angle of bank that causes stall speed to increase, but the “G” force required to maintain the climb during that turn.  Relax the back pressure and the “G” force goes away, thus eliminating the reason to “never make steep turns close to the ground”.

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