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    Adventures in Personal Flying
             Internet Version with Revisions 2000-2017




Preface...numbered among the distinguished few

Introduction...my favorite moment

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Everlasting Shagger...a nearsighted view of the sky

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Second Solo...perils of the whoopee factor

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Flash in the Sky...invention is the mother of necessity

4

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Two-Four Fox...an unsolved mystery

5

 


License to Learn...a community takes a crucial ride

6

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Sky Below...inadvertent aerobatics -- in a cloud

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Commuting in the Sky...historic photographic journal.

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Take-off to Doom...witnessing go/no-go decisions

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Maritime Air...appreciating atmospheric realities

10

 


Above Ground Level...the foreknowledge of doom

11

 


The Four C’s...the icy wages of carelessness

12

 


Pattern Altitude...a canary in the cockpit

13

 


Invisible Front...discovering the counterfeit updraft

 14

 


Taciturn...four square in Four Corners

15

 


My System...physiology aloft is not a private matter

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Two in One Day...#1 wind-shear and #2 down-draft

17

 


Baja Banditos...faulty reasoning and fishy data

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Two Birds with One Stone...neither fish nor fowl

19

 


Hands of Strangers...not all phobias are irrational

 20

 


Smokey 28...something for military aviation brochures

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Practice? For What!...making simulation sincere

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Unusual Attitude...enough vertigo for a lifetime

23

 


High on Hubris...the wrong airport – in the wrong state

24

 


Jet Lag...make-it-happen risks more than ego

 25

 


Sensory Overload...speech-taking sights in the sky

 26


Airport Personalities...a tribute to air traffic controllers

27

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Soul On Board...old dog, new tricks 

 28

Cool Voice Aloft...a tribute to an old flying friend
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Santa Monica Omni...a life-changing experience.

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Smoke in the Cockpit...an irony aloft -- more than one

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Glossary...hyperlinked descriptive definitions

Supplement...a collection of anecdotes and essays

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     * Photographs and Illustration

ISBN 1-58922-2318-

 

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