100 Approach Plate Minimums Explained for IFR Pilots + General Aviation News
Aviation News Talk podcast
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🗓️ 2 March 2019
⏱️ 59 minutes
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100 Approach Plate Minimums Explained for IFR Pilots + GA News
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100 Max talks Approach Plate Minimums used by Instrument rated pilots. When can you descend below the MDA or DA? What governs whether an aircraft is in Category A, B, C, etc.? Which governs whether you can land, the minimum altitude, or the visibility? How low can you descend when you have the approach lights in sight? Which items do you have to see before you’re allowed to descend to land?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and thank you for joining us for episode 100 of the Aviation News Talk podcast, |
| 0:06.7 | where we bring you general aviation news and safety tips that pilots and student pilots like you can use. |
| 0:11.8 | Today we're talking in detail about all kinds of things related to IFR minimums. |
| 0:16.6 | Plus, this week in the news, some GPS receivers may have a problem starting in April, |
| 0:21.8 | and we'll tell you why. |
| 0:26.8 | And the final numbers are out for aircraft sales in 2018, and we'll tell you who came out on top. |
| 0:31.6 | And finally, a young flight instructor in Australia did something unusual when I got bored. |
| 0:35.2 | Welcome to Aviation News Talk, where we talk about general aviation. |
| 0:37.6 | I'm Max Truscott. I'm here to educate and inform you and have a little fun. If you're new to the show, I'm the 2008 national flight instructor |
| 0:41.6 | of the year and I specialize in Sears aircraft like the SR 20, SR 20, SR 20, and the SF50 |
| 0:47.3 | vision jet. So if you're starting to think that you might be interested in buying one of these aircraft |
| 0:51.1 | or you'd like some training in one, please call me today for |
| 0:54.1 | a free consultation and possibly a free demo flight. Just pick up the phone, call 650967-2500. |
| 1:01.0 | And if you're listening to us for the first time, please touch the subscribe button on whatever |
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| 1:08.3 | week. Last week in episode 99, we talked with |
| 1:11.1 | Flying Magazine, senior editor Rob Mark, about how it was possible for an Air Force test pilot |
| 1:16.4 | to crash and die while landing a Cirrus SRSR 22. So if you miss that episode, you may want to check |
| 1:21.9 | it out. All this and more, and the news starts now. |
| 1:30.2 | From Aveweb.com and Atlas Airlines, Boeing 767 flying for Amazon Prime crash just off |
| 1:36.7 | the shore of Texas on Saturday and all three crew members died and their bodies have now |
| 1:41.0 | all been recovered. The aircraft descended at about 6,000 feet per minute and |
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