Hello, and thank you for joining us for episode 49 of the Aviation News Talk podcast, where we bring you general aviation news and helpful tips and information that pilots like you can use.

Today, we're going to be talking about radio communications in the traffic pattern at towered airports.

Plus, we'll have Jason Miller, host of the Feiner Points podcast, talking about properly testing your

ELT, and you may be surprised.

Plus, listener questions.

A listener asks, why is it the fuel tanks will empty if you accidentally leave off a fuel cap?

Plus, coming up in the news, more details on the Roy Holliday crash in his icon A5C plane.

And we missed a bullet last week with the government shutdown, but we'll tell you what

aviation services you'll be missing if the government shuts down again in just two weeks.

And finally, one large airport is looking at having to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars

to fix their signage, and we'll tell you why they're going to need new

signs. 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 I'm going to share my over 40 years of

experiences or certificated pilot, author of the G-1000 Glass Cockpit Handbook, 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year,

and a specialist in serious aircraft like the SR20 and the SR22.

Now, last week in episode 48,

we talked about the Aeromexico Flight 668 Go-Around at SFO

and how the pilot expectations may have contributed

to flying the wrong instrument approach to the wrong runway.

All this and more, in the Gulf of Mexico.

Reports that his blood alcohol content level was 0.01 according to toxicology results.

Also, from Aveweb.com, they report that Royer Halliday had three drugs in his system when the crash occurred back in November.

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