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FOR RECREATIONAL PILOTS. Sport Pilot^3

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Cover: Sling 2 up close and personal^142027

Photo credit: Sling Aircraft

Contents

Regulars

07 President’s report

08 Calendar of events

11 Letters to the Editor

66 Happy Landings

Columnists

35 Pilot Talk

The Ops Team

43 Tech Talk

Darren Barnfield

50 Design Notes

Dave Daniel

53 Instructor’s Forum

Professor Avius

55 Learn to Fly

Shannon Leglise

57 Home Builder

Dave Edmunds

News

07 RA-Aus General Meeting

14 Foxy ladies fly the baton

14 Foxbat over jumbo

15 Sport Pilot goes digital

Fly-Ins

17 RA-Aus at Avalon

Edith Rutherford

20 Fokker debuts at Avalon

Andrew Carter

23 Clifton turns it on

Alan Betteridge

Readers’ stories

27 Flying with Steve

Dave Germano

28 A Broken Sapphire

Arthur Marcel

30 Seeing the light

Owen Bartrop

36 Better late than never

Andrew Beveridge

Features

33 Ferrying a Foxbat

Lindsay Dalla Rosa

39 Women in Aviation Week

Andrew Carter

44 Flying a Drifter

Dave Tonks

Cover story

46 Flying with a Sling

Gerhard Van Eeden

“I  had flown   too many    of

these   new-    fangled,    pretty

little  non-type-certified

airplane designs”

Extras

58 Members’ Market

64 Where is CAGIT?

65 Destinations

65 Off the shelf