109 Avoiding Midair and Near Midair Collisions + General Aviation News
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🗓️ 24 May 2019
⏱️ 73 minutes
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109 Avoiding Midair and Near Midair Collisions + GA News
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109 Max talks about Avoiding Midair and Near Midair Collisions. He recently had two near midair collisions (NMAC). While midair collisions are rare, NMACs are common, and pilots who have one should report it to the FAA. Collisions are more likely with aircraft with no radios and with agricultural aircraft. To avoid midairs, pilots should use flight following and good scanning techniques.
MidAir collision studies and Related Links
AOPA Nall Reports
AOPA Safety Advisor: Collision Avoidance
Near Mid Air Collision Searchable Database
Near Midair Collisions: How Many Really Occur?
MIT Study: Mid-Air Collision Risk
Study: Categorization of Near-Collision Close Calls - ASRS data
ASRS Database Report Set - NMAC Incidents
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again and welcome to aviation news talk, a weekly show with relevant news and flying tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm Max Truscott. |
| 0:10.0 | Today we're talking about mid-air collisions as there were two separate mid-airs last week, one in Alaska and one here in California. |
| 0:16.9 | And mid-air collisions have been on my mind since I had two near-mid-air collisions last week with the same aircraft. |
| 0:24.0 | So we're talking about avoiding mid-air and near-mid-air collisions after the news, and I'll tell you my bizarre story. |
| 0:30.1 | By the way, if you have thought about maybe someday buying a serious SR20, SR20, SR-22, or SF-50 Vision Jet, or would like flight training in one, |
| 0:37.0 | there are a lot of things I |
| 0:37.7 | can do to help you out. So please give me a ring today, 650967-2500 for a free consultation |
| 0:43.5 | and possibly a free demo flight. Now, last week in episode 108, we talked with airline pilot, |
| 0:49.2 | Carl Valeri, about how to become an airline pilot. So if you miss that episode, you may want |
| 0:54.0 | to check it out. |
| 0:55.2 | This week in the news, the American Bonanza Society needs some help, |
| 0:58.9 | and they are offering $200,000 in prizes to people with fixes for a design issue. |
| 1:04.5 | And a helicopter pilot in Massachusetts has been arrested for illegal flights. |
| 1:08.8 | All this and more, and the news starts now. |
| 1:15.8 | Well, last week's mid-air collision in Alaska is unusual in that so many people were involved. |
| 1:20.4 | This comes from the Maritimeexecutive.com. NTSB releases details of Ketchikan, Alaska |
| 1:25.4 | sightseeing crash. The Mid-air collision killed five cruise ship passengers and one pilot outside Ketchikan, Alaska sightseeing crash. The Midair collision killed five |
| 1:28.4 | cruise ship passengers and one pilot outside Ketchikan, as both aircraft were headed back to the harbor, |
| 1:33.6 | according to the NTSB. Ten other people survived mostly with injuries. At a press briefing, |
| 1:39.1 | NTSB said that the larger of the two flight plans involved, the Havin Otter, operated by Takan Air, was returning |
| 1:45.7 | to Catch Can from a sightseeing flight on a southwesterly course at about 3,800 feet. It descended |
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