298 Pilatus PC-12 NC Crash – Lack of Avionics Proficiency leads to Chaos in the Cockpit + GA News
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🗓️ 27 October 2023
⏱️ 55 minutes
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Summary
Have you ever struggled to enter a flight plan or an instrument approach into a GPS navigator? If you fly with an autopilot, do you know how to use it, and how to use all of its modes? Today we talk about the cockpit voice recorder transcript, just released by the NTSB, of two Pilatus PC-12 pilots who crashed in North Carolina. What you'll hear is chaos in the cockpit. Unbelievably, the two pilots struggled during the entire 27-minute flight, to enter a flight plan into the aircraft's FMS system.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever struggled to enter a flight plan or an instrument approach into a GPS navigator? |
| 0:07.7 | And if you fly with an autopilot, do you know how to use it and how to use all of its modes? |
| 0:13.5 | Have you ever thought, well, yes, I do struggle a little with the GPS or the autopilot, but eventually I'm able to get it to work. |
| 0:20.5 | So it's not that big a deal, right? |
| 0:22.7 | Well, if that's you, then you're going to want to tune into this episode where I recreate |
| 0:26.8 | the cockpit voice recording of two Pilates PC12 pilots who crashed and died after spending |
| 0:32.6 | most of the 27-minute flight, trying to enter a flight plan and an instrument approach. |
| 0:37.7 | Hello, my name is Max Truscott. |
| 0:39.3 | I've been flying for 50 years. |
| 0:40.9 | I'm the author of several books and the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year. |
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| 1:04.0 | pilots need to know about fatigue, check it out at AviationNewsTalk.com slash 297. |
| 1:09.9 | Coming up in the news for the week of October 23, 2003, two GA jets collide after a hawker takes off without a clearance, |
| 1:18.3 | and a student pilot damages 10 planes after being denied his solo flight. |
| 1:23.9 | All this and more, and the news starts now. |
| 1:30.2 | From avWeb.com, departing Hawker 800 and landing Mustang collide no injuries. |
| 1:37.1 | The FAA says a Hawker 800 departed without permission and collided with the Cessna Mustang landing on an intersecting runway at Houston Hobby Airport on Tuesday. |
| 1:46.2 | The pilot of the airborne Hawker told a controller, we just had a mid-air, |
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