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flying tips for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe. I'm Max Struska and I'm the author of

several books on the Garmin G-1000, 3,000, 5,000 and perspective and the 2008 National Flight

Instructor of the Year. Later in this episode, we'll be talking with Arturo

Gera, who survived a VFR into IMC crash in a carbon cub. Unfortunately, his son, who was also a

pilot and was flying at the time, did not survive. Arturo hopes that by sharing his story,

other pilots will learn from the accident and avoid making similar mistakes.

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you do, I'll read your name on the show. This week in the news, an American Airlines worker died in a

horrible accident on the ramp.

FAA says pilots who tested with an Alaskan DPE will have to redo their check rides

and will tell you how kayaks were used to rescue a down pilot.

All this and more, and the news starts now.

From Paddle Your your own canoe.com, we normally talk about general aviation news, but we've

had a couple airline stories that are just too important to ignore.

So this first story is American Airlines Groundworker reportedly killed in horrific

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