57 Best Headlamps for Night Flying, New FAA Guidance for Non-Towered Airport Operations + GA News
Aviation News Talk podcast
Glass Cockpit Publishing
4.8 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 16 April 2018
⏱️ 66 minutes
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Listeners recommended ten headlamps for night flying and Max purchased and evaluated six of them to see how well they worked in the cockpit. The FAA has a new Advisory Circular on Non-Towered Airport Operations, and Max talks about what’s new in it. A listener passes along an idea for identifying the runway orientation at unfamiliar airports. Another listener asks when is the best time of year to fly a Cessna172 from New York City across the country, and what routes should he take.
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Mentioned in the Show
New FAA AC 90-66B on Non-Towered Airport Operations.
Cirrus Pilot Proficiency Program.
Detailed Instruction - Live Sectional Wall Map.
Video of Black Diamond Spot headlamp - varying red brightness
News Stories
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- Cirrus Vision Jet Wins Collier Trophy
- FAA Extends ADS-B Mandate To 2040- April Fools!
- FAA Response to April Fools Story
- CANADA ADS-B MANDATE MOVES CLOSER
- Aviation reform ‘grounded’ by Barnaby’s successor
- uAvionix Introduces New Low-Cost ADS-B Products
- All-Electric Sun Flyer 2 Takes Flight
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and thank you for joining us for episode 57 of the Aviation News Talk podcast, where we bring you what else, general aviation news and helpful information that pilots like you can actually put to you someday. |
| 0:12.1 | Today, we're going to talk about my evaluation of the best headlamp solutions out there for night flying, and that's based on listener recommendations and my evaluation of them. |
| 0:20.2 | And the FAA has new guidance on flying at non-towered airports, |
| 0:23.6 | and I'm sure some of you are doing some of the things that the FAA now says, |
| 0:28.1 | you shouldn't be doing. |
| 0:29.6 | And we'll also be sharing listener feedback and answering some listener questions. |
| 0:33.6 | Plus, coming up in the news, we'll talk about two recent GA aircraft accidents and tell you why the FAA thinks that one of them is the most likely kind of accident for airliners to have in the future. |
| 0:44.1 | And an April Fool's joke just seemed a little too real for some people in our industry, forcing the FAA to respond. |
| 0:51.6 | And finally, an innovative aircraft that could reduce the cost of flight training. |
| 0:55.3 | Well, it's just made its first flight, and we'll tell you what makes that plane special. |
| 0:59.2 | Welcome to Aviation News Talk, where we talk about general aviation. |
| 1:02.8 | I'm Max Prescott. |
| 1:03.6 | I'm here to educate and inform you as a pilot or student pilot, and let's have some fun along the way. |
| 1:08.0 | I've been a pilot for over 40 years. |
| 1:10.7 | I'm author of the G-1000 Glass Cockpit Handbook and the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year. |
| 1:15.9 | And these days I'm a specialist in Circe aircraft like the SR 20 and SR22. |
| 1:20.7 | Now, last week in episode 56, we talked about visual separation and the responsibility that pilots assume when they agree to maintain |
| 1:27.6 | visual separation. So if you miss that episode, you may want to check it out. This week, we have |
| 1:32.5 | audio feedback on that episode from Senior Flying Magazine editor Rob Mark. All this and more, |
| 1:38.0 | and the news starts now. From Aveweb.com, a rather unusual accident, the NTSB and Embry-R-R-Nautical University officials are working to |
| 2:02.3 | determine what caused a PA-28 R-Dash-201, that's a Piper Arrow, what caused its wing to fall off in |
| 2:09.8 | mid-flight on April 4th. The resulting accident killed two people, Zach Capra, who was an |
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