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H I INTERNATIONAL SWOMEN PILOTS THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE NINETY-NINES® INC. "Bonanza Three Six Bravo Turn Right To Zero-Five-Zero..." It's been a late night and you're starting to sense the need for Only The FS-100 Offers A Complete Training System: sleep. T he flight's been short but the weather lousy a nasty crosswind with a ragged ‘200 foot ceiling. Even worse, you just Realistic Flight Simulation. The FS-100 features missed the approach into a busy airport you've never shot before ^ highly accurate six-degree-of-freedom flight dynamics, in daylight, let alone at night. Your stomach is churning. Sud crystal clear instrument panels, full-function replay denly ATC interrupts, "Bonanza Three Six Bravo, turn right to mode, complete user-definable environmental condi zero-five-zero, climb and maintain three thousand feet; holding tions, random instrument failures, multiple panel instru instructions, advise ready to copy." You can't help but whisper, ment options and much, much more. 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