Hello, and thank you for joining us for episode 43 of the Aviation News Talk podcast, where we bring you general aviation news and relevant information that pilots like you can use.

Coming up in the news, according to the NTSB, General Aviation has just had its best safety record in 50 years.

And receiving IFR clearances here in the U.S. may get a little easier for pilots in the future, and we'll tell you how that could work.

And the U.S. Customs and Border Protection, CPB, has launched a program to recruit flight students exclusively from just one university here in the U.S.

And finally, military veterans are just a little bit upset about a proposed bill that

would limit some of their benefits.

And we'll tell you how that relates to general aviation in a moment.

Welcome to Aviation News Talk, where we talk about general aviation.

I'm Max Truscott.

I'm here to educate and inform you as a pilot or student pilot, and hopefully let's have some

fun along the way.

I'm going to share a part of my 40 years of experience as a certificate of pilot,

author of the G-1,000 Glass Cockpit Handbook, and the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year.

And I'm also a specialist in Circe aircraft like the SR20 and SR22.

Last week, in episode 42, I talked about the preliminary NTSB report on the icon A5 crash

that killed baseball star Roy Halliday and about the results of a survey in which our podcast

listeners gave feedback on the various portable ADSB receivers they're using.

So if you're thinking of buying an ADSB receiver, you might want to check out that episode.

And this week, we've started a new survey about aviation headsets.

So if you use one, tell us about your experience with your headset, any issues you've encountered.

And if you're thinking of buying one, tell us which one you're thinking about.

Just go to aviationnewstalk.com slash survey, and we'll bring the results to you here in a future episode.

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