193 Two SR20 Takeoff Accidents plus Performance Charts with Catherine Cavagnaro + GA News
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🗓️ 2 July 2021
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193 Two SR20 Takeoff Accidents plus Performance Charts with Catherine Cavagnaro + GA News
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193 Max talks with Catherine Cavagnaro about her insights into POH takeoff performance charts. He also talked about two recent SR20 takeoff accidents. One occurred at Truckee Airport, where Max had been twice before in recent weeks, both times in SR20s. The other occurred in Arkansas after a pilot took off with his pitot cover on and did a base to final spin after flying a very low traffic pattern.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk where we talk General Aviation, with relevant |
| 0:06.2 | news and flying tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm Max Ruscott. |
| 0:11.0 | Today we'll talk with AOPA Pilot Magazine columnist Dr. Catherine Kovignaro, about the subtleties |
| 0:16.6 | you'll find in the performance charts in an aircraft P-O-H. |
| 0:20.2 | And I'll also talk about two recent fatal takeoff accidents, |
| 0:23.8 | one of which occurred at a mountain airport that I've been to twice in the two weeks |
| 0:27.6 | leading up to the accident, and I was flying the same aircraft type as the plane that crashed. |
| 0:33.3 | In our previous episode 192, we talked with Rob Mark, |
| 0:36.5 | a senior editor of Flying magazine, |
| 0:38.0 | about how to minimize risk when taking off. |
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| 1:04.5 | This week in the news, another pilot learns that flying low can result in criminal charges. |
| 1:10.0 | Airships may be in your future travel plans, |
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