Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk where we talk General Aviation with relevant news and flying tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe.

I'm Max Truscott. I'm a full-time flight instructor and the author of several books on the Garmin G-1,000, 3,000, 5,000 in perspective and the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year.

Today we answer a number of listener questions about IFR pop-up requests for practice instrument

approaches, such as where do you find the right frequencies to call on?

What should you say?

What should you say on the CTAF when going into a non-tired airport?

And under what conditions can you legally log an instrument approach for currency

purposes, and more. Last week in episode 236, we talked about what you need to do to use GPS

to fly the final segment of a VOR approach, plus more on VOR plus VAR approaches and some autopilot

gatches. So if you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out at AviationNewstalk.com

slash 236.

And this is a listener-supported show, which means, yes, we're ad-free.

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This week in the news, an abandoned 747 is up for sale if you'd like to bid on it. One airline is

offering triple pay to pilots who pick up trips in July. And a CFI and a student survived

a crash landing, only to be robbed

as they were waiting for police to arrive, and we'll tell you where that happened.

All this and more, and the news starts now.

From AviationPros.com, abandoned 747, parked outside the Evergreen Air Museum in Oregon

to be sold at auction.

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