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Contents APRIL 2018 • VOL. 22, NO. 4
2 Editor’s Briefing A Reckoning With Risk by Dianne White
4 Airmail
6 Garmin G1000 Nxi
King Air B200 Gets a Flight Deck by Dianne White
11 Retrofit Revolution
Crop of New Autopilots Bring Safety & Capability to Older Aircraft by Joe Casey
16 Getting the Most of Your PT6A
by Rebecca Groom Jacobs
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Jet Journal
22 Higher Minimums
by Kevin Ware
25 Five on the Fly
Five Questions with Quest Aircraft’s Rob Wells
by Rebecca Groom Jacobs
From the Flight Deck 27 Incursion
by Kevin R. Dingman
30 NBAA Focus En Route
39 JSSI Founder Launches Engine Program for Pistons
On Final
40 That’s What
Friends Are For
by David Miller
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