59 Summary of Recent Private Pilot NorCal Fatal Accidents including Long Trips, Weather, Night & Loss of Control + GA News
Aviation News Talk podcast
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🗓️ 1 May 2018
⏱️ 71 minutes
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Summary
59 Summary of Recent Private Pilot NorCal Fatal Accidents,Trips,Wx,Night
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Max gives a summary of recent fatal accidents in Northern California, and how they are similar and different from accidents in the rest of the U.S. Many result from Long Trips, Weather, Night & Loss of Control. A listener shares his experience with GPS jamming while in flight. Another listener asks about how to deal with airsickness he experienced on a first flight lesson.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and thank you for joining us for episode 59 of the Aviation News Talk podcast, where we bring you general aviation news and facts and tips that pilots like you can actually use. |
| 0:10.7 | Today, we're talking about some recent fatal accidents in northern California and how some of them fit into the national pattern of accidents here in the U.S. |
| 0:17.7 | And some don't. |
| 0:19.1 | Some of the common themes are that some of these planes were on long trips, others encountered |
| 0:23.4 | weather, some were flying at night, and of course that number one accident type here in the |
| 0:28.1 | U.S. loss of control. |
| 0:29.9 | And we'll also be sharing listener feedback and answering some listener questions. |
| 0:33.8 | Plus, coming up in the news, we'll talk about the various twist and turns regarding ATC privatization that occurred in Washington, D.C. |
| 0:41.0 | last week regarding an FAA reauthorization bill in the House. |
| 0:44.9 | Plus, there's a big change that took effect on April 24, and it affects everyone planning to take the commercial single engine or the initial CFI check ride. |
| 0:53.4 | Also, there were multiple major announcements |
| 0:55.1 | at the Arrow Expo 2018 show in Friedrichshafen, Germany last week that we'll talk about. |
| 1:00.2 | And finally, one well-known aviation organization has embarked on a listening tour and will |
| 1:05.2 | tell you what they're listening for. Welcome to Aviation News Talk, where we talk about general aviation. |
| 1:10.4 | I'm Max Truscott. I'm here to educate and inform you as a pilot or student pilot by sharing my over 40 years of experience as a licensed pilot, author of the G-1000 Glass Cockpit Handbook, and the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year. I'm also a specialist in Cirrus aircraft like the SR 20 and SR2. Last week in episode 58, we talked with CFI and lawyer John Farrell about how flight instructors |
| 1:32.3 | can reduce their liability and some of the many things he mentioned apply to aircraft owners |
| 1:36.0 | too. |
| 1:36.8 | So if you missed that episode, you may want to check it out. |
| 1:39.7 | Of course, this week we're going to talk about recent fatal accidents. |
| 1:42.7 | All this and more on the news starts now. |
| 1:46.0 | From Flyingmagine.com, Schuster backs down on ATC privatization plan. Well, first it was on and then it was off. |
| 1:52.7 | A lot happened last week. On Tuesday, we learned that there were over 200 amendments proposed to |
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