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10 TIPS FOR BETTER LANDINGS! PILATUS OWNERS AND PILOTS ASSOCIATION • WINTER 2012 PROFICIENCY in EASY 5 PIECES PLUS JEPPS ON YOUR IPAD EXPLORING LEASEBACKS FLYING WITH FRANK SINATRA CALCULATING BLADE PERFORMANCE 5PROP IS IT WORTH IT? BUY AND HERE COME SPRING SELL PLANES THUNDERSTORMS WITHOUT PAYING TAXES WINTER 2012 POPA MAGAZINE 1 GeorgeIS PROUDLY Antoniadis PT6. Having exclusively fl own PT6-powered aircraft in his PlaneSense® fractional program, founder and CEO George Antoniadis is proudly PT6. With 68 different models, the PT6 provides versatility like no other turboprop engine. With continual technology improvements and rock-solid performance, it defines the future. Are you proudly PT6? Join the nation. At PT6Nation.com. CONTENTSPILATUS OWNERS AND PILOTS ASSOCIATION • WINTER 2012 • VOLUME 15, ISSUE 1 8 42 22 38 DEPARTMENTS 6 FROM THE PRESIDENT 8 NEW & NOTABLE 12 ONBOARD LADIES CORNER 42 WEEKENDERS Travel Hot Spots 46 BOTTOM LINES Buy and sell airplanes without paying taxes. BY HARRY DANIELS, CPA, CFP, PFS, CVA 48 VECTORS The Chinese aviation industry is alive and well. It could be a great time for American investors. BY JOHN BREMNER 50 MIPAD Professional charts for the iPad Jepp TC and FD. BY JOHN D. RULEY 52 CABIN CUISINE Celebrity recipes to make and take with you. BOBBY FLAY 54 TEST YOURSELF Trivia smackdown FEATURES 14 PILATUS PILOT PROFICIENCY IN FIVE EASY PIECES You’re only as good as your next fl ight. BY PAUL K. SANCHEZ 18 SPRING THUNDERSTORMS You might take them on diff erently than you would at low altitudes. BY BILL COX 22 LIFE WITH THE 5-BLADE MT PROP Is it really worth the extra money? BY MIKE DENNIS 26 PERFORMANCE PLUS...AND MINUS? Knowing what your airplane can and can’t do is critical. BY JOHN MORRIS 30 10 TIPS FOR BETTER LANDINGS Energy management makes all the diff erence. Here’s how. BY SCOTT PERDUE 36 EXPLORING AIRCRAFT LEASE AGREEMENTS There is no one-size-fi ts-all document. BY JONATHAN LEVY 38 BEING FRANK An aircraft salvage company discovers a remarkable airplane. BY DAVIN COBURN 56 TRAVEL Thousands of humpbacks come to the Dominican Republic and off er you a once-in-a-lifetime encounter with whales. BY LYN FREEMAN From the President Pilatus provides product support 24/7 and has been No. 1 in the Profes- sional Pilot Product Support Survey for the past 10 years. As a testimonial to this commitment, a POPA board member was AOG in the Bahamas on Christmas day with a trim malfunction at startup. Th e service centers were appropriately taking the day off , yet the Pilatus Technical Service Engineer- ing Team and the top Honeywell fi eld service contact responded immedi- ately. Th ey provided the support needed for the AOG aircraft to be safely Pfl own back to Connecticut with only a two-hour delay. Th is commitment is one of the many reasons Pilatus has remained the turboprop of choice. Th e knowledge and economic benefi ts aff orded to PC-12 accident in Montana. It is the responsibility of the Increasing our POPA members are signifi cant. Th e knowledge part is PIC to insure that Prist is added during fueling. While your membership, primarily conveyed at our annual convention and on our board had decided to develop a fueling additive require- web site postings. Economic benefi ts are a board priority, ment decal for the PC-12 this past summer, Pilatus was in- which and the list is growing. Th e cornerstone is a new relation- dependently working on the same concept. A free service ship with UVAir providing a POPA members’ fuel card bulletin is expected in the next month that will provide two currently with a special fuel discount and no annual fees. Enroll- decals which are to be located next to the fuel caps. represents only ment information is on our web site. Th e fuel-card savings To comply with revised POPA bylaws, the board will alone should exceed the cost of the POPA membership. now stand for re-election annually in June. Your board a third of the As stated in my last letter, these savings should benefi t has added an additional member. Please join me in current members and create incentives for non-member welcoming Dan Muller to the POPA Board of Directors. fl eet, should PC-12 owners to join POPA. Increasing our membership, He is a commercial pilot with 4,400 hours and has SEL, help enhance which currently represents only a third of the fl eet, should MEL, IFR, CFI, CFII and L-188 ratings. He has fl own help enhance the safety of the fl eet by having the POPA more than 1,000 hours in his PC-12 N489JG and has the safety of knowledge base reach a wider Pilatus audience. 2,800 Navy fl ight hours in T-28s as a formation fl ight in- On Jan. 20, your board held its quarterly directors’ structor and in P-3s as an aircraft commander patrolling the fl eet by meeting in Dallas where Flight Safety International the North Atlantic and Mediterranean. He is president of having the provided a tour of its facility, including fl ights in a JKL International, Inc., and fl ies out of KSMQ in Somer- level-D G150 simulator. Th is was my fi rst experience set, N.J. With this addition, the board now represents all POPA in a level-D full-motion simulator and, as many of you three categories of PC-12s: /45, /47 and /47E. already know, it is very impressive with a complete Th e POPA 2012 Convention is planned for June 8 and knowledge cockpit, lifelike visuals and performance qualifying for 9 at the Sarasota, Fla., Ritz Carlton. Th e agenda is packed base reach a FAA type and currency endorsements. FSI is building with many presentations to help member pilots fl y more a PC-12/47E level-D simulator which is expected to be safely and more effi ciently. Your convention should not wider Pilatus available Nov. 12. FSI’s undertaking will be a signifi cant be missed, and I look forward to seeing you in Florida. addition to the training available to the PC-12 pilot. audience. Over the past year, an increasing number of FBOs are no longer supplying Jet A premixed with Prist, as was the norm in the past. Th e PC-12 requires Prist, and the lack of it can be catastrophic as was demonstrated in the 2010 “POPA … We Elevate the Pilatus Experience” 6 I POPA MAGAZINE I WINTER 2012 PILATUS OWNERS AND PILOTS ASSOCIATION WINTER 2012 VOLUME 15/NUMBER 1 POPA BOARD EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Laura Mason Phone: 520.299.7485 Fax: 520.844.6161 Cell: 520.907.6976 [email protected] PRESIDENT Pete Welles VICE PRESIDENT Joe Howley SECRETARY/TREASURER Brian Cleary BOARD MEMBER Jack Long BOARD ADVISORS Ty Carter Bob MacLean Dan Muller Phil Winters Piotr “Pete” Wolak AJ PUBLICATIONS STAFF EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Lyn Freeman MANAGING EDITOR Michelle Carter SENIOR EDITOR Bill Cox ASSOCIATE EDITOR Hans Lubke EDITORIAL ASSISTANTS William Henrys CONTRIBUTING EDITORS Nina Harris, Paul Simington, Katrina Bradelaw, Paul Sanchez, Wayne Rash Jr. ART DIRECTOR Robbie Destocki PHOTOGRAPHY Paul Bowen, Mary Schwinn, James Lawrence, Lyn Freeman, Jodi Butler, Gregory L. 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