143 What You Need to Know about Wind Shear + GA News
Aviation News Talk podcast
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🗓️ 26 March 2020
⏱️ 68 minutes
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143 Max talks about Wind Shear, which is one of the required topics for which student pilots must receive ground instruction in order to get a Private certificate. He talks about what wind shear is, and the accident that led scientists to research wind shear and how they used radar in their research. He also talks about where wind shear is found, how to avoid it, and how to report it.
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- NTSB: Alaska’s high crash rate warrants a broad review
- FAA Steps Up Illegal Charter Clampdown
- Man Arrested For Shooting At San Diego Police Helicopter
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again, and welcome to Aviation News Talk, a weekly show with relevant news and flying |
| 0:05.9 | tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe. I'm Max Truscott. For our main topic |
| 0:10.7 | today, we'll be talking about Winshure, which is a topic that student pilots are required to |
| 0:15.0 | receive instruction on. We'll talk about what it is, where you may find it, and how to avoid it. |
| 0:21.8 | Now, last week in episode 142, we talked about aviation news of the weird as well as some strange iPad incidents, |
| 0:27.5 | and we did that with friend of the show Rob Mark, who's a senior editor for Flying |
| 0:30.9 | magazine. So if you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out. And if you haven't |
| 0:35.3 | done so already, please click on that subscribe button in whatever app you're listening to us now. That way, new shows will be |
| 0:41.8 | downloaded to your app as soon as they're available, and it costs nothing. Absolutely |
| 0:45.7 | zero to hit that subscribe button, so please do it now. This week in the news, the drug rate is |
| 0:51.2 | rising in pilots of fatal accidents. |
| 0:57.2 | Textron, which owns Cessna and Beechcraft as furlowing employees, |
| 1:00.7 | the 2020 CFI of the year has been announced, |
| 1:04.5 | and a man was arrested for shooting at a helicopter and we'll tell you where that happened. |
| 1:07.4 | All this and more, and the news starts now. |
| 1:18.1 | From AIN Online.com, the NTSB reported that the prevalence of prescription, over-the-counter, |
| 1:22.7 | and illicit drugs found in the bodies of fatally injured pilots has continued to trend upward since its last similar study in 2014. |
| 1:26.5 | That 2014 study examined toxicology results from pilots |
| 1:29.8 | killed in plane crashes between 1990 and 2012. For the updated study, investigators examined |
| 1:36.2 | toxicology results from pilots who died in plane crashes between 2013 and 2017. Almost all of |
| 1:43.1 | these crashes, 97% were in GA aircraft, according to the study. |
| 1:47.9 | However, investigators noted that a positive toxicology finding didn't necessarily indicate the pilot was impaired at the time of the crash, only that the pilot had used a specific drug or drugs at some point before the fatal crash. |
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