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92 Pilot Weather: From Solo to the Airlines – Book Interview with Scott Dennstaedt

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🗓️ 3 January 2019

⏱️ 30 minutes

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92 Pilot Weather: From Solo to the Airlines – Book Interview with Scott Dennstaedt

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92 Max talks with flight instructor and former research meteorologist Scott Dennstaedt about his new Weather book for student pilots to airline pilots. We talked about things pilots need to know about encountering icing. Later we talked about how to deal with the overwhelming number of online aviation weather sites. Finally, Scott talks about some of the tools that pilots can use to determine cloud tops.

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My goal was to create a book that's written by pilots for pilots.

0:05.6

I mean, that was our goal.

0:08.1

When you read some of the other books throughout there, you find that they don't necessarily

0:12.3

engage the pilot because the people writing that may not be pilots themselves.

0:16.5

So both Doug and I are trained meteorologists, and we also both fly for a living.

0:21.5

So there are a lot of useful stories that are woven throughout the book, not just a bunch of weather theory.

0:31.3

Hello, and thank you for joining us for episode 92 of the Aviation News Talk podcast.

0:35.7

I'm your host, Max Trouscott, and you just heard Scott

0:37.8

Denstead. And in a few minutes, I'll be sitting down with Scott to talk about his new weather

0:41.6

book for pilots. But first, if you're new to this show, well, we have a weekly news show that

0:45.9

shares pilot safety tips in general aviation news, and we try and help connect you with part of a

0:50.4

broader community that's champing general aviation around the world. And if you enjoy the show, please click on the subscribe button on whatever app you're using to listen to the show

0:59.2

so that new episodes will download automatically to your phone each week.

1:02.7

And after the show, if you find yourself wanting just a little bit more aviation content,

1:07.4

go on out to our Patreon site at AviationNewstalk.com slash awesome and click on post.

1:13.4

There's also a link to it in the show notes.

1:15.5

And if you feel that you get value from the show and you're in a position to donate a few dollars a month,

1:19.9

while you can sign up right there on the Patreon site.

1:22.4

Again, that's at AviationNewstalk.com slash awesome.

1:25.8

Now here's our conversation with Scott Densstead.

1:29.1

Now let me tell you a little bit about Scott Denstead. Scott's a former National Weather Service

1:33.3

research meteorologist and a flight instructor. And for nearly 20 years, he's been teaching pilots

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