168 How to Avoid Deadly Weather-Related Accidents – Safety Moment with Rob Mark
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🗓️ 16 November 2020
⏱️ 50 minutes
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168 How to Avoid Deadly Weather-Related Accidents – Safety Moment with Rob Mark
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168 Max talks with Flying Mag Sr. Editor Rob Mark about two recent fatal weather-related accidents and strategies for avoiding them. A family of four was killed in a SR22 after a low time Private pilot took off for a long trip at night and encountered weather. A doctor flying a Cessna 210 crashed in Texas while flying an instrument approach in freezing rain. A timely 180 could have saved both pilots.
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SR22 Accident, weather in Arkansas
Cessna 210 icing accident in Texas
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again, and welcome to Aviation News Talk, a weekly show with relevant news and |
| 0:05.9 | flying tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe. I'm Max Truscott. |
| 0:10.5 | Today, Flying Magazine Senior Editor Rob Mark is back to talk with us about two recent weather-related |
| 0:16.1 | accidents and about what pilots can do to avoid accidents such as these. |
| 0:25.4 | And in the beginning of the conversation, Rob mentions an article he's just written for Flying Magazine about VFR into IMC accidents. |
| 0:29.6 | Last week in episode 167, we talked about what you can do to help prevent fuel exhaustion |
| 0:35.2 | and fuel starvation accidents. |
| 0:37.3 | So if you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out. |
| 0:40.2 | And if you're new to the show, please click on the subscribe button and whatever app that you're |
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| 0:49.2 | your phone as soon as it's released for free. |
| 0:52.2 | And if you stick around to the end and you're finding value in this show, |
| 0:56.1 | I'll tell you how you can help support our work with a one-time or monthly credit card donation |
| 1:00.0 | via Patreon or PayPal. And now here's our conversation with Rob Mark. |
| 1:06.4 | Joining us here today is Rob Mark, senior editor at Flying Magazine. He also publishes the Jetwine blog at Jetwine.com. |
| 1:14.2 | He's worked with both an air traffic controller and an airline and corporate pilot and CFI. |
| 1:19.8 | And we've also had him numerous times on the show here, most recently in episode 161, |
| 1:24.9 | where he and I talked about the fatal Kobe Bryant crash, which apparently |
| 1:28.6 | involved VFR into IMC at flight in Southern California. |
| 1:32.2 | Rob, thanks so much for joining us today. |
| 1:33.7 | Great to have you back. |
| 1:35.1 | Hey, thank you, Max. |
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