266 DA42 Spin Accident and other Listener Feedback and Insights - A Friday Mailbag Special
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🗓️ 24 February 2023
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266 DA42 Spin Accident and other Listener Feedback and Insights - A Friday Mailbag Special
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266 Max reads listener letters and feedback. A CFI asks what it would take to transition a pilot trained in a Diamond DA42 into a traditional piston twin. A DA42 pilot gives feedback on #263 about the DA42. We discuss the final report of a DA42 involved in a spin accident in Norway. A listener discusses his Carbon Monoxide incident. And a pilot describes his off-field landing after a partial power loss on takeoff.
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Episode 263: Exploring the Technology and Performance of the Diamond DA42 with John Ewing
Final Report: DA42 Spin Crash in Norway
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again and welcome to aviation news talk for a Friday mailbag special. |
| 0:05.7 | This is a show where we talk general aviation for pilots and student pilots to help keep you safe. |
| 0:10.4 | I'm Max Truscott, and each week I hear from many of you, and these are some of your emails. |
| 0:14.9 | By the way, if I sound a little different, it's because I'm recording this from a hotel in Burbank, California, |
| 0:19.9 | because in the morning I depart |
| 0:21.0 | on a trip in a vision jet back to Knoxville. I'll tell you more about that in a future episode. |
| 0:26.6 | We have a great collection of emails from you today, several of them are in response to episode |
| 0:30.4 | 263, in which we explore the technology and performance of the Diamond DA 42 with author |
| 0:36.5 | John Ewing. So if you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out at AviationNewsTalk.com |
| 0:41.3 | slash 263. |
| 0:43.4 | Here's our first email. |
| 0:44.6 | It comes from Tom Turner. |
| 0:46.0 | He's a CFI that we've had on the show before. |
| 0:48.5 | He says, Hi, Max, great discussion with John Ewing on operations and training techniques |
| 0:52.8 | in the Diamond DA 4242, I've been |
| 0:55.2 | enamored by the type since it was first introduced, although I have yet had the opportunity |
| 0:59.6 | to fly one. |
| 1:00.9 | The amazing yet unconventional engine and engine-out training requirements require a lot of |
| 1:05.5 | training for the instructors as well. |
| 1:07.7 | Since you instructing the Diamond Twin yourself, I'd be interested to hear you follow |
| 1:10.9 | up by discussing two things, with the growing prevalence of the DA 42 in training organizations. |
| 1:16.3 | One, what do you think it would take to transition a pilot trained in a diamond DA 42 into a |
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