Aviation News Talk podcast
Summary: General Aviation news, pilot tips for beginners & experts, interviews, listener questions answered, technical details on G1000 & Perspective glass cockpits & flying GPS approaches. 40 yrs experience flying general aviation aircraft. As an active flight instructor, I bring my daily experiences in the air to this show to help teach pilots and future pilots to fly safely. I'm a Platinum Cirrus CSIP instructor and work with people who are thinking about buying a new or used SR20 or SR22. Go to AviationNewsTalk.com for my contact information, or to click on Listener Questions, which lets you speak into your phone to leave a question you’d like answered on the show.
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- Artist: Max Trescott | Glass Cockpit Publishing
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Podcasts:
Max gives a summary of recent fatal accidents in Northern California, and how they are similar and different from accidents in the rest of the U.S. Many result from Long Trips, Weather, Night & Loss of Control. A listener shares his experience with GPS jamming while in flight. Another listener asks about how to deal with airsickness he experienced on a first flight lesson.
John Ferrell talks about what he does to reduce his potential liability as a flight instructor and help to protect his assets. He talks about LLCs, CFI insurance, and umbrella insurance and about selecting clients. He points out the life is inherently risky and that each person will have a different answer as to whether its worth it to him or her to become a CFI.
Listeners recommended ten headlamps for night flying and Max purchased and evaluated six of them. FAA has a new Advisory Circular on Non-Towered Airport Ops, and Max talks about what’s new. A listener passes along an idea for identifying runway orientation at unfamiliar airports. Another listener asks the best time of year to fly from NYC across the country, and what routes should he take.
Max talks about visual separation, the responsibility pilots assume when they agree to maintain visual separation, and methods for avoiding other aircraft. NTSB preliminary report reveals more on NYC helicopter crash. Listener questions:When to switch from ground to tower frequency, how to simulate AHRS failure in G1000, and what do controllers mean when they say to enter on a 2-mile base.
We discuss challenges pilots face entering traffic patterns and how to follow slower aircraft. A Cirrus SR22 lands on top of a SR20 that just landed. FAA grounds open door helicopter tours after an NYC accident in which tethered passengers drowned because they couldn’t release their tethers. A listener asks about requirements for floatation devices for a planned flight from Florida to the Bahamas.
Max interviews Flying Magazine Sr. Editor Rob Mark to discuss recent developments surrounding the proposal to spin off ATC from the FAA and give it to a new non-profit corporation.
Ever wonder which Aviation headset is best to buy? Find out what listeners said about their headsets in our latest survey on aviation headsets. They told us what they like and dislike about each headset and, if they’re planning on buying a headset, which one they plan to buy next. In the News, there’s a new low cost light sport aircraft for sale, and free ADS-B weather is coming to the UK.
There are a couple of ways to load an instrument approach when flying an approach with vectors from ATC. In this show we talk about the tradeoffs involved. The easiest way is to load the approach with vectors, but then you won’t see all of the approach waypoints. A better alternative is loading the approach with an IAF and then activating the leg to which ATC is vectoring you.
Max interviews Chuck Price, who accompanied him on a recent trip to the Cirrus delivery center in Knoxville, TN to pick up a new Cirrus SR22T for a buyer and then fly the aircraft back to California. Together they flew nearly 2,000 nautical miles in a day and a half as they dodged snow and ice on the return trip to San Jose, California.
Max talks in detail about what to do if the glide slope fails during an ILS approach. Also, updates on ATC Privatization and the United 1175 incident. Finally, a listener asks whether he’ll be able to get traffic information in an aircraft without ADS-B Out after the January 2020 mandate goes into effect.
Max talks in detail about Radio Communications with ATC at towered airports, like Class D, and C, and B airports. Jason Miller talks about current NOAA SARSAT policy for testing ELTs.
Max talks in detail about the AeroMexico 668 go around at SFO and how our expectations as a pilot can change our perceptions of what we hear. GAMA President Pete Bunce gives a wide range of GA updates.
Jason Blair is a Designated Pilot Examiner, who gives pilot checkrides and he’s an active CFI. He got an early start in aviation, taking flying lessons at age 15, soloing at 16, and getting his private certificate at 17. He talks about the shortage of the CFIs in the flight training industry, how that happened, what some companies are doing about it, and what you as a pilot can do about it.
Max talks in detail about Cold Weather Flying operations, how the new tax bill affects aircraft ownership, and when to fly VFR versus IFR Garmin introduces the GDL 82, an ADS-B out, which is a low cost, easy to install solution. There’s a link in the show notes to the now cancelled Advisory Circular AC 91-13C on Cold Weather Operation of Aircraft.
Max talks in detail about Night Flying, the horrendous accident rate for night flight, night illusions that can lead to accidents, and how to stay safe flying at night. Garmin introduces the GDL 52, an ADS-B plus SiriusXM weather receiver.
