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December 2025
What’s inside…
8 Featured Plane
Reflections on a Cessna 172B
By Michelle Adserias
18 Avionics
Annual Time
Five Items to Check
By Bob Hart
24 Sky Talk
No More Moth Balls
Winter Storage Suggestions
By Scott “Sky” Smith
26 Invasive Maintenance Procedures
No Place for the Term “Invasive” in Aerospace Maintenance
By Carl Ziegler, A&P/IA
30 The Calculated Risk
By Joel A. Turpin, ATP CFII FAA Master Pilot
36 Lessons From the Logbook
From Hero to Burn – Almost
Your Can Learn From Your mistakes – If You Can Just Survive Them
By Bill Cox
38 Protect Your Propeller
Simple Planning and Maintenance Can Postpone Prop Replacement
By Irven F. Palmer, Jr.
Member Activity
42 Member Q&A
Departments
6 From the Publisher
45 Advertiser Index & Website Directory
On the Cover: Conner Vital’s 1961 Cessna 172B. Photos courtesy of Jack Fleetwood (www.jackfleetwood.com).
