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PIPERS MAY 2026
8 Featured Plane Confident and Capable
The 1969 Piper Arrow
By Diana Jones
18 Evolution of an Avionics Writer
Bob’s Big Aviation Adventure
By Bob Hart
24 Sky Talk
What’s In Your Flight Bag
By Scott “Sky” Smith
26 10 Flight Techniques From Great Aviators
By Bill Cox
30 When Best Procedures and Common Sense Fail
A Primer on EASA Maintenance Procedures
By Carl Ziegler, A&P/IA
34 Avionics
Why Wiring Matters
By Gene Velazquez, One Mile Up
39 Check Rides… Gone Wrong!
Examiner in Absentia
By Joel A. Turpin, ATP CFII FAA Master Pilot
46 Hangar Tip
Repair or Overhaul?
By Steve Thomas, President Poplar Grove Airmotive
MEMBER ACTIVITY
41 Member Q&A
DEPARTMENTS
6 From the Publisher
45 Ad Index & Website Directory
On the cover: Photos of Steven Joyner’s 1969 Piper Arrow by Jack Fleetwood (www.JackFleetwood.com).
