196 Density Altitude and Mountain Flying – Interview Colin Aro
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🗓️ 26 July 2021
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196 Density Altitude and Mountain Flying – Interview Colin Aro
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196 Max talks with Colin Aro about density altitude and mountain flying. He also talks about what glider pilots know that can help you when flying near mountains. Being high, hot, and/or humid results in high density altitude, which lowers aircraft performance. In mountains, consider weather factors including updrafts and downdrafts. Keep your aircraft light and fly early in the day.
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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. |
| 0:09.7 | I'm Max Truscott. |
| 0:10.9 | Today we'll be talking with Colin Arrow about mountain flying in high-density altitude, |
| 0:15.3 | which is something that all pilots should be familiar with, |
| 0:17.9 | and which you can encounter at relatively low altitudes on hot days. |
| 0:21.9 | Last week in episode 195, we talked with Derek Reuter about ways to collect data to improve |
| 0:27.1 | landing performance. So if you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out. And if you |
| 0:31.7 | haven't done so already, please take a moment, click on that subscribe or follow button in whatever |
| 0:36.5 | app that you're listening to me on now. |
| 0:38.6 | Then also click the share button, which is those three dots if you're using the Apple podcast |
| 0:42.6 | app, and share the show with a friend. Thanks so much for your support. Now let's talk about |
| 0:47.5 | mountain flying and high density altitude. First, if you're one of our Patreon supporters at the |
| 0:52.3 | $20 month and uplevel, you've already seen the video version of my interview with Colin Arrow, which was posted last week. |
| 0:59.2 | And if you'd like to see all of the slides that Colin is talking about today, |
| 1:02.7 | just go out to AviationNewsTalk.com slash awesome, which will take you to our Patreon site, |
| 1:08.4 | where you can sign up using your credit card to support the show each month. And if you're not a Patreon supporter and you're listening to the podcast right now, |
| 1:15.2 | you'll still hear everything that Colin said during the interview. And when he refers to |
| 1:19.5 | pictures that he has, well, he's talking about slides that he showed in the video version of our |
| 1:23.9 | interview. By the way, one of the things that Colin and I didn't talk about was how |
| 1:28.0 | exactly you should be leaning your aircraft before take off under high-density altitude conditions. |
| 1:33.6 | And that's the subject of our next episode, 197. So you'll want to make sure you click on the |
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