228 3 Things You Don't Know about VFR into IMC Accidents + GA News
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🗓️ 11 April 2022
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228 3 Things You Don't Know about VFR into IMC Accidents + GA News
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228 Max talks with Rob Mark about VFR into IMC Accidents and a free online course available from AOPA's Air Safety Institute. These are the most common weather accidents, and 90% are fatal. They happen to even very high time pilots, and they're ten times more likely to occur at night. Pilots need a strategy for when this occurs to them, and they need to learn how to estimate flight visibility.
News Stories
- New VFR into IMC safety campaign launches
- Textron brings new upgrades to Cessna and Beechcraft
- Southwest slows pilot hiring on instructor shortfall
- Distracted pilot fails to extend landing gear
- Pilot hits tree while herding cattle
- Backyard landings in helicopter could land man in prison
- Helicopter pilot sentenced for forging license
- Crash pilot arrested on human smuggling charges
- Fake pilot case: trainee Air India copilot held
- Man arrested after climbing onto jet wing at Chicago's Midway
Mentioned in the Show
AOPA ASI's VFR into IMC Avoidance and Escape course
FBO Fees May Have Motivated VFR-into-IMC
Accident Case Study: Chicago to NC flight VFR into IMC
Accident Case Study: SR20 Indiana to DuPage flight
Accident Case Study: VFR into IMC over Bakersfield, CA
Understanding the Human Factors Associated with Visual Flight Rules Flight Into Instrument Meteorological Conditions
Assessments of Flight and Weather Conditions during General Aviation Operations
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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. |
| 0:10.1 | I'm Max Truscott. |
| 0:11.1 | I'm the author of several books on the Garmin G-1,000, G-3,000, G-5,000, and prospective glass |
| 0:17.3 | cockpits, and the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year. |
| 0:21.3 | Today, we're talking in detail with Rob Mark about VFR into IMC accidents. |
| 0:26.2 | And if you think, well, you already know everything there is to know about those accident types, |
| 0:30.4 | I'm guessing you don't, as I learned a number of new things while researching this episode. |
| 0:35.2 | Please take a listen and see if you don't learn at least three new things |
| 0:38.3 | about these insidious accidents that continue to plague general aviation. |
| 0:43.2 | Last week in episode 227, we talked about a near-fatal icing accident that I had 30 years ago |
| 0:49.1 | in a Cessna 182 when I was a relatively low-time pilot. |
| 0:53.2 | So if you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out at |
| 0:55.8 | AviationNewsTalk.com slash 227. |
| 0:59.3 | And this is a listener-supported show, and we're still ad-free. |
| 1:02.9 | So please join us. |
| 1:04.0 | Sign up to become a member and support the show financially at AviationNewsTalk.com |
| 1:08.3 | slash awesome. |
| 1:09.8 | And when you do, I'll read your name on the show. |
| 1:12.5 | This week in the news, AOPA's Air Safety Foundation has a new online course about VFR into IMC accidents. |
| 1:20.6 | Southwest Airlines can't hire as many pilots as they'd planned to and will tell you why. |
| 1:25.2 | And once again, we have a number of aviation-related crime |
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