171 My Visit with the Pipistrel Panthera + GA News

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🗓️ 28 December 2020

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171 My Visit with the Pipistrel Panthera + GA News

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171 Max sat in the new Pipistrel Panthera and talked with Andy Chan of Right Rudder Aviation, the U.S. distributor, about this exciting new aircraft. Pricing is $639K experimental, $672K certified. The Panthera is a fast, retractable landing gear aircraft that compares favorably with the Cirrus SR22. It has a useful load of 1100 pounds, and can fly over 1,000 nautical miles.

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0:00.0	Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk, where we talk General Aviation,
0:05.7	with relevant news and flying tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe.
0:09.6	I'm Max Truscott.
0:10.6	For our main topic today, I'll be talking about the new Pippistral Panthera aircraft,
0:14.9	which I was able to enjoy when the only one in the U.S. came to my home airport.
0:20.1	Plus, I'll tell you about my favorite aviation book
0:22.7	and how it just found its way back into my life.
0:25.5	In our last episode, 170, we talked with Rob Mark
0:28.4	about mastering the go-around, an important maneuver
0:30.8	that all pilots need to understand in detail.
0:33.5	So if you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out.
0:36.4	And if the Aviation Newsalk podcast is new to you, in whatever app that you're using to listen to us now, just click on the subscribe button.
0:44.1	So new episodes will download for free each week.
0:46.5	I think you'll enjoy hearing about the Panther today and you won't want to miss future shows.
0:50.9	This week of the news, rusty pilots are making news and it's not good. If you fly your plane
0:56.9	to Canada, there's something new you're going to need to bring along. And we've got an unusual
1:01.3	story, and it's a real one, about a pilot who got hung up while flying around dressed as
1:06.2	Santa Claus. All this and more, and the news starts now.
1:19.3	From aopa.org, the FAA requires piper wing inspections.
1:25.9	Wing spark corrosion in a hard-to-reach area of certain PA-28 and PA-32 models could cause a fatal failure, and the FAA requires inspections by Borscope,
1:30.8	access panel installation, wing removal, or other approved means within 12 months or 100 hours.
1:36.9	The directive published November 23rd as a final rule, with an effective date of December 28th,
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