167 Fuel Exhaustion and Fuel Starvation Accidents + GA News
Aviation News Talk – Pilot Stories, Safety Tips & General Aviation News
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🗓️ 9 November 2020
⏱️ 67 minutes
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167 Fuel Exhaustion and Fuel Starvation Accidents + GA News
Summary
167 Max talks about several recent fuel-related accidents and what the FAA's Risk Management Handbook and the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge say pilots can do to avoid these kinds of accidents. Listener feedback includes an FAA legal opinion on how pilots can use a non-CFII to get instrument current in actual conditions. And a controller asks about how pilots get to the MEA without an ODP.
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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 Ruscott. |
| 0:09.9 | For our main topic today, we'll be talking about fuel exhaustion and fuel starvation accidents and some of the things that you can do to prevent them. |
| 0:17.5 | Plus, listener questions, including one from a controller on IFR departures and listener feedback |
| 0:23.7 | from a CFI who got an FAA interpretation that refutes something said here on an earlier |
| 0:28.9 | episode of Aviation News Talk. Last week in episode 166, we talked about IFR gatches and a pilot |
| 0:35.6 | deviation. So if you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out. |
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| 0:49.9 | You're probably going to enjoy today's discussion about fuel-related accidents, |
| 0:53.4 | and you won't |
| 0:54.1 | want to miss future shows. |
| 0:56.1 | This week in the news, Buy Aerospace signs a huge deal for their electric airplanes. |
| 1:01.7 | And Garmin has brought out something that owners of older Circe aircraft will be interested in, |
| 1:06.4 | and a police chase that happened the last week on a runway. |
| 1:10.2 | All this and more, and the news starts now. |
| 1:17.2 | From BuyArospace.com, Buy Aerospace, developer of the EFlyr and Envoy family of all electric aircraft, |
| 1:24.8 | announced they've entered into agreements with Aerospace 9, headquartered |
| 1:28.5 | in South Korea, under which Aerospace 9 has agreed to an investment in Buy Aerospace. |
| 1:33.8 | Aerospace 9 has also made a large commitment to the Asian market opportunity by signing |
| 1:38.4 | purchase deposit agreements for 300 Buy Aerospace aircraft. |
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