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Tight Turn with RNAV
#97 | SEPTEMBER 2018
You've got what might be the most important date of your life just one simple LPV approach away. Encroaching weather is putting on the squeeze, however, so you speed things up with a tight intercept. Your GPS navigator isn't playing along. Will you salvage this situation in the next seconds—or go back into the worsening weather?
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Jeff Van West
Jeff Van West is PilotWorkshops' Creative Director with the primary responsibility for managing the development and creation of the company’s pilot proficiency training programs, including our flagship IFR and VFR Mastery programs. For 19 years, Jeff ran many noteworthy aviation media projects with his own firm, Van West Communications, including magazines, books, videos and live seminars. Jeff previously served as editor-in-chief of IFR Magazine and co-editor of Aviation Consumer, and his work appears in AOPA Pilot, Flight Training Magazine, Plane and Pilot, and AVweb. He’s an experienced CFII/MEI with ratings for single- and multi-engine airplanes, seaplanes, and gliders. Jeff was the creator of the first pilot transition program for new Cirrus aircraft.