274 Checklist Usage, FAA Medical Preparation, & Aging Pilot Solutions: Listener Mail - A Friday Mailbag Special
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🗓️ 14 May 2023
⏱️ 37 minutes
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274 Checklist Usage, FAA Medical Preparation, & Aging Pilot Solutions: Listener Mail - A Friday Mailbag Special
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274 Max reads listener letters and feedback. Listeners share their Checklist best practices. Two pilots share how they prepared in advance for their FAA medical with great success. And a pilot decided to sell his plane, after listening to #257 about challenges facing aging pilots, so that he "goes out on top."
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| 0:00.0 | Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk for a mailbag special. |
| 0:05.6 | This is the 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 often there's not enough time to include all of your emails in the weekly shows. |
| 0:17.3 | And I've got a great collection I'd like to share with you today. |
| 0:20.4 | Some of them are in response |
| 0:21.5 | to episode 273 in which we talked about checklists and medicals, and some are in response to |
| 0:27.1 | episode 257, in which we talked about challenges facing aging pilots and some potential solutions. |
| 0:34.1 | So if you didn't hear those episodes, you may want to check them out at AviationNewsTalk.com |
| 0:38.1 | slash 273 and slash 257. |
| 0:42.1 | And before we get to our first emails, I've got a couple very quick audio clips. |
| 0:46.1 | This one was recorded on the tower frequency at Palo Alto Airport just a couple of days ago. |
| 0:51.4 | It kind of cracked me up. |
| 0:52.7 | Here's some papa. |
| 0:53.4 | I'll fall off the left at the end all the way Zulu, and if you could pass along a basin |
| 0:56.3 | top, if you remember the ground, I appreciate it. |
| 0:59.3 | Unfortunately, I don't remember. I was trying to recall, but the mind is blank. |
| 1:04.5 | It's no problem. |
| 1:05.9 | Well, there's an honest answer from that King Air pilot, and yes, I understand that. |
| 1:09.8 | After your land, sometimes you just |
| 1:11.6 | don't remember stuff, especially if you've been flying in hard IFR, as this gentleman had been doing. |
| 1:16.3 | Now, here's a recording that occurred just a day or two ago, and I've got to tell you his background. |
| 1:21.5 | I've mentioned on the show that I've taken a few helicopter lessons. Well, good news is I actually |
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