200 What You Need to Know about Best Glide Speed, Recent Accidents + GA News
Aviation News Talk – Pilot Stories, Safety Tips & General Aviation News
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🗓️ 27 August 2021
⏱️ 67 minutes
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200 What You Need to Know about Best Glide Speed, Recent Accidents + GA News
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200 Max talks about important factors related to flying best glide speed and the importance of using a checklist during an engine out emergency. He explains how to judge whether you'll make it to the airport or a particular field using visual methods and electronic tools and apps. He also talks about a number of recent accidents including a recent Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet accident.
News Stories
- Haiti Earthquake Relief - Operation Airdrop
- Iowa Farmer Assisting with Haiti Relief
- Envoy Embraer E175 Involved In Chicago Area Drone Strike
- Envoy Midair Collision was with a Mylar Balloon
- Police drone hits plane; 'major damage' reported
- Pilot experiences side effects after flying immediately after COVID vaccine
- Reid-Hillview Airport Battles Misconceptions
- Certainty for General Aviation Pilots Act
- Pilot crashes after seat slides back during takeoff
- Engine Trouble, Plane-Car Collision Kills 4-Year-Old
- J-3 Cub Strikes Kayaker After Takeoff From Oregon Gravel Bar
- Piper J3C has Fatal Accident after Practicing 180 Return to Airport
- Helicopter Pilot Ticketed For Landing At A Dairy Queen For Dessert
Mentioned in the Show
NTSB Preliminary Report - Launchpad Marzari Accident
FAA Article: A Deaf Pilot's Path to Aviation
FAA Article: Changing to LED lightbulbs
IFR Magazine article: IFR Circling - Conform with VFR Traffic Pattern
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again, and welcome to episode 200 of Aviation News Talk, where we talk General Aviation, |
| 0:06.8 | with relevant news and flying tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe. |
| 0:10.8 | I'm Max Truscott. |
| 0:12.1 | Today we'll be talking about what you need to know about best glide speed and about a number of recent accidents, |
| 0:17.4 | including one that destroyed a serious vision jet this week, where fortunately, |
| 0:22.7 | everyone walked away from the accident. |
| 0:28.5 | Last week in episode 199, we talked about the absurdly high accident rate with instrument circling approaches, and we provided some tips for flying circling approaches. |
| 0:32.7 | So if you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out. |
| 0:35.5 | This week in the news, the death toll continues to rise |
| 0:38.3 | after an earthquake in Haiti, and some GA pilots are helping out. There have been multiple |
| 0:43.3 | collisions between aircrafts and suspected drones, and you'll never guess who was flying one of those |
| 0:47.8 | drones, and a helicopter pilot is fine for landing at an unusual location. All this and more, |
| 0:53.4 | and the news starts now. |
| 0:59.0 | From multiple sources, including the Operation AirDrop page and Facebook.com, the death toll in Haiti |
| 1:05.2 | continues to rise after a massive earthquake earlier this month. Haiti's Civil Protection Agency |
| 1:10.4 | also raised the number of confirmed dead to 2,207. |
| 1:15.0 | And I heard from one of our Patreon mega supporters Brian Deere, said that he was looking at |
| 1:19.2 | opportunities to use his aircraft for the relief efforts. |
| 1:22.1 | He was in contact with Operation AirDrop, and on their Facebook page, they write that, quote, |
| 1:26.8 | Our first step is finding qualified pilots with turban single or any twin aircraft with |
| 1:31.3 | current international tags and appropriate overwater equipment to volunteer for the difficult |
| 1:35.8 | Haiti mission. |
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