Hello, and thank you for joining us for episode 46 of the Aviation News Talk podcast, where we bring you general aviation news and relevant information that pilots like you can actually use.

Now, today we're talking about cold weather flying operations, because even if you live in a warm climate like I do, there may be times when you fly to places with much colder weather.

Plus, we've got listener

questions. A listener asks why he should choose to fly VFR versus IFR. And coming up in the news,

we talk about the new U.S. tax bill and the benefits and the takeaways for aircraft owners.

And a company in China has purchased another well-known aviation company, and we'll tell you

which one.

And if you've been holding out for a low-cost, easy-to-install ADSB-Out solution to install

in your airplane, we'll tell you about a new one that just started shipping.

And finally, we have a recent video from the cockpit of a lightsport aircraft that was

in an unrecoverable spin, and we'll tell you what the test pilot did to survive.

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 we'll try to have some fun along the way. I'm going to share some of my over 40 years of experience as a licensed pilot,

author of the G-1000 Glass Cockpit Handbook, and as the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the

year. Plus, I'm a specialist in Cirrus aircraft like the SR 20 and the SR22. Now, last week in

episode 45, I talked about night flying, and the many things that your CFI probably didn't teach you about flying at night.

So if you didn't hear it, check out that episode.

And later this week, Jason Blair is going to be back to talk in-depth about the CFI shortage and what we can do about it.

And here's a little tip.

Make sure to listen to the very end of this episode for bloopers.

All that and more. and the news starts now.

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