213 Why You Should Join a Type Club - Interview Catherine Cavagnaro
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🗓️ 27 December 2021
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213 Why You Should Join a Type Club - Interview Catherine Cavagnaro
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213 Max talks with Catherine Cavagnaro about aircraft type clubs and why pilots should join one. There are more than a hundred of them, yet only a fraction of pilots belong to one. Yet they offer the best value proposition in aviation: they're cheap and they could save your life. Most type clubs offer a newsletter or magazine and many have a web site loaded with aircraft details.
As I wrote in a blog article for AOPA eight years ago, "Give yourself an early Christmas present: Join the type club for the aircraft you fly most frequently. But don't just write a check; become an active participant. Whether you own or rent, you're bound to learn more about the intricacies of that aircraft model. And if your family is lucky, what you learn as a type club member may someday save your life…and possibly their lives too."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk, a weekly show with relevant news and flying tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe. |
| 0:08.7 | I'm Max Troscott. |
| 0:10.0 | Today we're talking with Dr. Catherine Kavagnarro about aircraft type clubs. |
| 0:14.3 | Now there are more than 100 type clubs for different aircraft, and she and I agree on this. |
| 0:18.5 | These club memberships pay for themselves. |
| 0:21.2 | And if you don't belong to a type club, you're missing out on a lot of valuable information. |
| 0:25.8 | Even the FAA recommends them in many documents, including AC90-109A, transition to unfamiliar aircraft. |
| 0:33.6 | Last week in episode 212, we talked with Rich Pickett about Angel Flight West. |
| 0:38.6 | So if you missed that episode, you may want to check it out at AviationNewsTalk.com |
| 0:42.2 | slash 22012. |
| 0:43.9 | And here's a portion of an email from new mega supporter Rob Thomas. |
| 0:47.4 | He wrote, I was sitting in my garage listening to your recent episode on CFIT, and I thought, wow, I have a lot of monthly subscriptions, but none of |
| 0:55.0 | these give me information that could one day save my life and the life of my passengers. |
| 0:59.7 | I don't think it is exaggerating to say that I usually learn at least one thing in each of your |
| 1:03.6 | episodes that could do that. |
| 1:05.3 | And that's why Rob decided to become a member to support Aviation News Talk, a listener-supported |
| 1:09.2 | show. If you find you're getting |
| 1:10.8 | the same value as Rob and you'd like to join to help support the show, then please go to |
| 1:14.4 | AviationNewsTalk.com slash awesome and sign up to make a monthly donation. And if you sign up at the |
| 1:20.1 | $20 month or higher level, you'll also get my videos, including one I posted that shows a client flying |
| 1:25.8 | an SR22T to near minimums on an ILS approach and then flying the missed approach. |
| 1:30.9 | You can also see the video version of our conversation with Catherine Kovignaro. |
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