272 Spatial Disorientation and SOPs: Analyzing Three Recent Accidents
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🗓️ 17 April 2023
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272 Spatial Disorientation and SOPs: Analyzing Three Recent Accidents
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272 Max talks about three recent accidents, all of which should have been avoidable. Interestingly, two of them involve helicopters, and yet the lessons we can learn from them apply directly to fixed wing pilots as well. Two of the three accidents involve failure to follow standard operating procedures, and two of them appear to include spatial disorientation.
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| 0:00.0 | 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. |
| 0:09.6 | I'm Max Ruscott. Today we'll be talking about three recent accidents, all of which should have been avoidable. |
| 0:15.9 | Interestingly, two of them involve helicopters, and yet the lessons we can learn from them apply directly |
| 0:21.6 | to fix wing pilots as well. |
| 0:23.9 | Two of the three accidents involve failure to follow standard operating procedures, and |
| 0:28.2 | two of them appear to include spatial disorientation. |
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