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AOPA Offers Advice For Securing Aircraft In A Storm

AV Web

If it is not possible to evacuate the area as a major storm approaches and an aircraft is not normally stored in a hangar, the first suggestion is to arrange temporary hangar space as far in advance as possible. Windows and doors should be firmly latched and engine inlets, pitot tubes, and static ports covered.

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Getting Back in the Air

Plane and Pilot

Out in the practice area, I did some of my favorite beyond-ACS but still normal category exercises—alternating steep turns with full aileron deflection, extended low speed flight, and Dutch rolls to 45-degree bank each way, again with full aileron deflection. Then the CFI gave me a few unusual attitudes, and all was well.