151 Understanding Airworthiness - Interview with DPE Seth Lake
Aviation News Talk podcast
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🗓️ 5 June 2020
⏱️ 36 minutes
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151 Understanding Airworthiness - Interview with DPE Seth Lake
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151 Pilot examiner Seth Lake talks about the many aspects of airworthiness
that pilots and aircraft owners need to be knowledgeable to pass the Private, Commercial, and ATP checkrides. Topics include type certificate data sheets, preventative maintenance pilots can perform, STCs, Airworthiness Directives, Kinds of Operation Equipment Lists, Minimum Equipment Lists and more.
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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. |
| 0:08.5 | I'm Max Ruscott. |
| 0:09.6 | First off, I have to acknowledge that the last two weeks have been a roller coaster here in the United States. |
| 0:14.9 | I've certainly been monitoring the news more closely than usual. |
| 0:17.9 | And the good news is that within the last few days, things seem to have become more |
| 0:21.3 | peaceful, even as the size of some of the protests grow. And at the end of this episode, I'll give |
| 0:26.6 | you a couple of quick updates on what I've been doing and what's been going on in my neck of the woods. |
| 0:31.3 | Today we'll be talking with pilot examiners, Seth Lake, about airworthiness, a topic that pilots |
| 0:35.3 | and aircraft owners really need to be very knowledgeable |
| 0:37.8 | about so that you can assure that your aircraft is airworthy and so you have the knowledge |
| 0:42.8 | to pass either the private commercial or ATP check rides. Now last week in episode 150, |
| 0:48.4 | we talked about how to get back into flying safely if you haven't flown for a while. So if you |
| 0:52.8 | missed that episode, you may want to |
| 0:54.2 | check it out. Now here's our conversation with Seth Lake. And now let me tell you a little bit |
| 0:59.7 | about Seth Lake. Seth has an Air Force Reserve C-130 instructor pilot recently out of active duty. |
| 1:05.8 | He's now a full-time flight instructor and DPE giving check rides in Arkansas. His business, VSL Aviation, operates |
| 1:13.0 | to beach travel airs, and he specializes in teaching the multi-engine rating in that aircraft. |
| 1:18.1 | Seth, welcome back to the show. Thanks, Max. Thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here again with you. |
| 1:24.3 | Well, last time we were talking about multi-engine training, this time we're talking about airworthiness, which can be a little bit of a dry topic, but it's also one that's |
| 1:31.6 | important. Tell us why it's important for people to fully understand airworthiness. Yeah, Max, |
| 1:36.6 | airworthiness, first of all, from a safety standpoint, is really important as a pilot to make sure |
| 1:41.1 | the plane that you go fly is in an airworthy condition. |
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