174 CAP Interview – Delivering Vaccine, Military Training Routes, Thunderstorms + GA News
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🗓️ 18 January 2021
⏱️ 61 minutes
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174 CAP Interview – Delivering Vaccine, Military Training Routes, Thunderstorms + GA News
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174 Max interviews Civil Air Patrol Lt. Col. Robert Bowden and Maj. Rod Rakic about their five day mission flying a GA8 to deliver vaccine to remote areas of Wisconsin and Michigan. Max also discusses an MIT study that shows how pilots behave around thunderstorms. Finally, DPE Seth Lake talks in great detail about what pilots need to know about Military Training Routes or MTRs.
News Stories
- Report Calls For Multi-Pathway Approach To Mitigating Aviation Lead
- Airspace Restrictions Planned for Inauguration
- Used aircraft sales spiked at end of 2020
- Test pilot training course debuts
- Pilot loses control after being hit in head by a bird
- Pilot lands Pilatus at former RAF base without permission 'to go to the beach'
- Civil Air Patrol Joins Operation Warp Speed
Mentioned in the Show
Study: Options for Reducing Lead Emissions from Piston-Engine Aircraft
Prove of Negative COVID test required to enter U.S. by Air
Max on the Opposing Bases podcast - Not Available Yet
MIT Thunderstorm Study - PDF
Seth Lake Aviation
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk where we talk in General Aviation, with relevant |
| 0:06.4 | news and flying tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe. I'm Max Truscott. |
| 0:11.2 | For our pilot skills topic today, we'll talk about an MIT study that shows how pilots behave around |
| 0:16.5 | thunderstorms. And later, we'll talk with Seth Lake about something that all pilots need to know about, |
| 0:21.7 | and that's military training routes or MTRs, and I bet you'll learn something new about them. |
| 0:26.5 | And finally, we'll talk with two newsmakers who piloted the second GA flight to deliver COVID |
| 0:32.4 | vaccine. Last week in episode 173, we talked about IFR departure procedures and ODPs. |
| 0:40.0 | We also interviewed Robert Rose about remotely piloted aircraft that are flying at reliable robotics. |
| 0:45.7 | And Rob Mark joined us to talk about the importance of a sterile cockpit, particularly when you're taking off and landing. |
| 0:51.2 | So if you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out. |
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| 1:16.2 | This week in the news, there will be many flying restrictions around Washington, D.C. this week. |
| 1:21.8 | Used aircraft sales spiked upward at the end of last year, and a Pilates PC-12 pilot is in big trouble in Britain. |
| 1:28.7 | All this and more, and the news starts now. |
| 1:35.4 | From avWeb.com, a report calls for a multi-pathway approach to mitigating aviation lead. |
| 1:42.1 | A new report published by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, |
| 1:45.4 | and Medicine, Transportation Research Board says multiple mitigation strategies are necessary to |
| 1:50.9 | reduce lead emissions from piston aircraft. The study, options for reducing lead emissions from |
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