13 Fun Ideas for National Aviation Day + GA News
Aviation News Talk podcast
Glass Cockpit Publishing
4.8 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2017
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
National Aviation Day has been around for more than 75 years, But it probably doesn’t get as much attention as it deserves. Here are 13 fun ideas for celebrating on national aviation Day, which is August 19. Franklin D. Roosevelt created National Aviation Day in 1939 by presidential proclamation. Originally it was to celebrate the growth and advancements made in aviation. But one can’t help wonder whether it was also a way to start getting more people interested in aviation got a time when Europe was just beginning to enter World War II. Today we face a different challenge, which is how to attract more people to aviation at a time when pilots are in high demand, but new student pilot starts are declining. Here are 13 ways that you can celebrate today, or help get other people more connected to aviation. 1. Get someone else involved in aviation. 2. If you are a rusty pilot, get back into flying! 3. Fly in a new airplane type. 4. Watch an aviation themed movie. 5. Fly a flight simulator! 6. If you are a licensed pilot, fly somewhere new! 7. Visit an Aviation Museum 8. Fly a radio controlled airplane 9. Volunteer to help an aviation-related organization 10. Download and read an aviation book from your local library or from NASA 11. Go Plane Spotting 12. Thank someone who works in the aviation industry 13. Take an aviation course Click here for the listener survey. Tell us what flight planning tools you use when planning a longer flight. Please visit my new Patreon page and make a contribution to help me with my goal of improving the AviationNewsTalk.com website. You can Dictate a listener question from your phone and I’ll try to answer it on a future show, or send an email. News Stories
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and thank you for joining me today. Coming up in the news, we have updates on two |
| 0:06.1 | seaplane crashes that have been in the news. And the Congressional Budget Office has released |
| 0:10.8 | new calculations on what it would cost if we gave away air traffic control to a new private |
| 0:15.6 | corporation. And if you ever thought that privatization was a good idea, you're going to be shocked by these numbers. |
| 0:22.6 | And National Aviation Day is coming up on Saturday, August 19th. So we've got 13 great ideas to share with you on how you can spend the day helping to introduce other people to aviation, or how you can have some new aviation experiences yourself. |
| 0:35.5 | And by the way, if you listen to this after the August |
| 0:38.2 | 19th, you can still do these things. Welcome to Aviation News Talk, where we talk about |
| 0:43.4 | you bet, general aviation. I'm Max Truscott. I'm here to help you get smarter, faster, keep you |
| 0:48.5 | safe as a pilot or student pilot, because I'm going to share with you my 40 years of experience |
| 0:52.9 | as a licensed pilot, |
| 0:59.5 | author of a few books and many magazine articles and the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year. Now, last week, we talked about turbochargers and why it's an emergency when they |
| 1:04.7 | fail. So if you didn't hear episode 25, please check it out. And coming up over Labor Day, |
| 1:10.6 | Rob Mark will be joining us again. |
| 1:12.4 | It's going to be the Emin R Aviation Joke Hour. |
| 1:15.0 | Yes, I'm M, he's R, and we're going to have a great time reading jokes that you've sent to us. |
| 1:19.6 | Now stand by because the news is next. From Avweb, the NTSB has completed an investigation of the ICONA5 crash that occurred on May 8 and which took the lives of two ICON employees. |
| 1:48.8 | Investigators found the probable cause of the accident was the, quote, |
| 1:52.2 | pilot's failure to maintain clearance from terrain while maneuvering at a low altitude, unquote. |
| 1:57.7 | Contributing to the accident was the pilot's mistaken entry into a canyon |
| 2:00.9 | surrounded by steep rising terrain while at a low altitude for reasons that could not be |
| 2:06.1 | determined. Investigators didn't find any mechanical problems or failure with the aircraft. |
| 2:11.0 | They did report that in examining the wreckage, they found that the ballistic parachute handle |
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