216 Learjet Crash update, PIREPS made simple with Virga App + GA News
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🗓️ 18 January 2022
⏱️ 61 minutes
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216 Learjet Crash update, PIREPS made simple with Virga App + GA News
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216 Max discusses the San Diego Learjet crash and how Garmin and ForeFlight Visual Approaches could have been used by the pilots for better situation awareness. He also talks with Matt Lane about using the Virga App to enter PIREPS with the Aviation Weather Center. A listener talks about his experience with flash evaporation, which prevented anti-icing fluid from covering his wings.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk where we talk General Aviation with relevant news |
| 0:06.6 | and flying tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe. I'm Max Ruska. We have lots to |
| 0:12.2 | cover today. After the news, we have updates on the Learjet crash in San Diego, including a letter |
| 0:17.3 | from the son of one of the pilots, plus ways to use Garmin visual approaches in for flight when circling to land. |
| 0:24.6 | And later we'll talk with Matt Lane about the free Virga app, which makes it easy to submit |
| 0:28.8 | a PIRP. |
| 0:29.8 | And of course, the big problem with PIRPS is pilots don't submit enough of them, so the |
| 0:33.8 | Virga app should help. |
| 0:35.4 | Later we'll have some of your emails and comments. |
| 0:37.4 | Thanks for sending those, as I love hearing from you and sharing them on the show. |
| 0:41.2 | Last week in episode 215, we talked with Dmitre Dochnowski about buying an SR-22 and then flying it back with me across the country. |
| 0:48.8 | So if you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out. |
| 0:51.5 | And by the way, for most of last week, Aviation News Talk was ranked number one of the over 200 aviation podcast listed in the Apple Podcast app. |
| 1:00.3 | And I'll tell you more about that later. |
| 1:02.1 | And this is January where people think about goals for 2022. |
| 1:05.9 | Let me suggest that one of them could be to help support this show, |
| 1:09.3 | as we are a listener supported and still |
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| 1:11.7 | You can sign up as a member at AviationNewsTalk.com slash awesome, and I'll read your name |
| 1:16.8 | on the show. |
| 1:17.9 | This week in the news, the EPA announces it will investigate the use of leaded fuels |
| 1:22.6 | and aircraft. |
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