264 Emergency Declarations: Listener Feedback and Insights - A Friday Mailbag Special
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🗓️ 17 February 2023
⏱️ 19 minutes
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264 Emergency Declarations: Listener Feedback and Insights - A Friday Mailbag Special
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264 Max reads listener letters and feedback. An FAA employee recommends pilots adopt the newer phraseology for declaring an emergency, which is "requesting priority handling." He believes pilots are reluctant to declare an emergency, as it suggests that what went wrong was their fault. The newer phraseology results in the same service provided by ATC; they'll still ask for souls on board, and fuel remaining, and you can still deviate as needed, but you don't need to say the words "I'm declaring an emergency."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk for a Friday mailbag special. |
| 0:04.6 | My thanks to mega supporter Kevin Hendrickson for suggesting I do such an episode. |
| 0:09.1 | This is the show where we talk general aviation for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe. |
| 0:14.2 | I'm Max Crescott and each week I hear from many of you, but there's often not enough time to include all of your emails in the weekly show. |
| 0:21.4 | And I have a particularly good collection I want to share with you. |
| 0:24.9 | Most of them are in response to episode 261 in which we discussed a fatal bonanza crash |
| 0:29.8 | near the Westchester County Airport in which the pilot had an engine failure, but took a very |
| 0:35.1 | long time to declare an emergency. |
| 0:37.6 | And also in response to 262, when we talked with Tom Turner about a study showing that partial |
| 0:43.2 | power loss is three times more likely than complete engine failure, and we talked about |
| 0:48.3 | why partial power loss seems to cause more accidents than complete engine failures. |
| 0:52.9 | So if you didn't hear those episodes, check them out at AviationNewsTalk.com |
| 0:57.0 | slash 262 and 263. |
| 1:00.0 | And here's our first email, and this comes from an FAA employee who works as an aviation safety |
| 1:05.1 | analyst and asked to remain anonymous. |
| 1:07.7 | That person wrote, Hi, Max. |
| 1:09.3 | I appreciate your comments in the latest episode |
| 1:11.3 | regarding the pilot's reluctance to declare an emergency, and I wholeheartedly agree with you. |
| 1:16.5 | There is no consequence and only benefit to declaring an emergency. To keep the message short, |
| 1:21.9 | I'm a human factors analyst and consultant with the FAA's air traffic organization, |
| 1:26.7 | human performance team. I've had the same |
| 1:28.9 | discussion with colleagues while looking at data from voluntary safety reporting systems like NASA's |
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