300 San Diego Cessna 340 Crash Final NTSB Report – Currency and Proficiency
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🗓️ 14 November 2023
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Max talks about the final NTSB report results for a Cessna 340 that crashed in IMC while on approach into San Diego. The pilot’s logbook revealed that Instrument Proficiency Checks and Flight Review conducted during the prior year were cursory and did not meet the requirements for issuing those endorsements. Max talks about the problems with pencil whipping flight training and falsifying endorsements. He lists all of the elements required for an IPC, so you can ensure you’re getting all of the training required for an endorsement. ATC audio provided by LiveATC.net
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Spatial Disorientation
Instrument ACS
Final NTSB Report - N7022G Cessna 340
NTSB Docket for N7022G
Pencil Whipping or falsification
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| 0:00.0 | Do you ever wonder how a seemingly well-trained pilot can crash an IMC, or how a pilot who |
| 0:07.4 | just completed 10 hours on a 737 level D simulator could fail to hand fly a light twin in the clouds? |
| 0:14.6 | Have you ever heard of a pencil-wipped IPC or flight review, where a CFI gives an endorsement, |
| 0:19.7 | but not all of the required training was given? |
| 0:22.5 | And do you know how to tell if you've ever received a pencil-whipped IPC or flight review? |
| 0:26.9 | If so, this episode is for you. |
| 0:29.4 | Hello, my name is Max Truscott. |
| 0:30.7 | I've been flying for 50 years. |
| 0:32.3 | I'm the author of several books and the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year. |
| 0:37.1 | And my mission is to help you become the safest possible pilot. |
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| 0:50.7 | And if you didn't hear the last week's episode in which we talked with Air Force pilot, |
| 0:59.1 | Tom Dorrell, about the processes he used to fly during his 25-year military career, |
| 1:04.9 | check it out at AviationNewsTalk.com slash 298. And if my voice sounds a little different to you and it does to me, stick around to the end of the show and I'll tell you why that might be. |
| 1:10.1 | Last week, the NTSB released its final |
| 1:12.6 | report on Ascena 340. They crashed near San Diego on October 11, 2021, killing the pilot, Dr. Sagada |
| 1:20.1 | Das, and the driver of a UPS truck, Steve Kruger. The aircraft was flying to NYF, the Montgomery |
| 1:27.0 | Gibbs Executive Airport, northwest of San Diego. |
| 1:30.6 | The plane crashed in Santee northeast of the airport. Das, a San Diego County resident, |
| 1:36.0 | had filed a flight plan from Yuma, Arizona to Montgomery Field. A flight he made regularly |
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