275 What Fixed Wing Pilots Need to Know about Helicopters + GA News
Aviation News Talk – Pilot Stories, Safety Tips & General Aviation News
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🗓️ 24 May 2023
⏱️ 68 minutes
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275 What Fixed Wing Pilots Need to Know about Helicopters + GA News
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275 Max talks about things fixed wing pilots should know about helicopters including their rotor downwash and wake turbulence, and how far away pilot should stay away from hovering and departing helicopters. He also talks about the Robinson Safety Notice, which says that airplane pilots are at high risk when flying helicopters. He also discusses regulations that differ for helicopters.
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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. |
| 0:09.8 | I'm Max Ruska, 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. |
| 0:18.7 | Today I'd like to talk about what fixed-wing airplane pilots need to know about helicopters. |
| 0:23.5 | Because as I've taken helicopter lessons over the last few months, I've discovered that there |
| 0:27.7 | are things that airplane pilots should know about helicopters as we are often sharing |
| 0:32.2 | the same airports and runways. |
| 0:34.5 | Last week in episode 274, we had a listener mailbag show in which listeners shared |
| 0:39.2 | their checklist best practices. And two pilots shared how they prepared in advance for their |
| 0:44.4 | FAA medical with great success. So if you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out |
| 0:49.7 | at AviationNewstalk.com slash 274. And so that you don't miss next week's episode, take that app that you're using |
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| 1:05.4 | And this is a listener supported show. |
| 1:07.3 | So if you've been listening for a while and you've learned some new things from the show, |
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| 1:15.9 | For example, listeners who sign up at the $20 month level can view the many videos I've posted online, |
| 1:21.1 | including some of my helicopter lessons. |
| 1:23.2 | Just go out to AviationNewstalk.com slash awesome to sign up or go out to AviationNewstalk.com slash PayPal. And when you do, I'll read your name on the show. |
| 1:32.0 | And yes, there is a link to those websites in our show notes. This week in the news, a YouTuber |
| 1:37.6 | faces jail time after deliberately crashing his plane. An STC lets you modify most GA aircraft so that you can open the windows, |
| 1:45.9 | and we'll tell you where in the U.S. the U.S. Air Force has been landing on highways. All this and more, |
| 1:52.7 | and the news starts now. |
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