on this episode of Av Talk, we welcome Sean Payne, an investigator with the U.S. National Transportation

Safety Board for the first in a two-part interview.

In part one this week, Payne walks us through how the agency collects, processes, and uses information

from aircraft data recorders to help determine the cause of an accident. Hello and welcome to episode 110 of Avtoc. I am Eimm. Petchnick here, as always with Jason Rubinowitz. Hi Ian, how are you?

Hello Jason, how are you? I'm doing well. Thanks. I'm so very close to taking to the skies once again. Any day now.

I'm looking forward to it as well. I'm already already getting notifications from the airline that

my flight is pretty crowded and I can change to another one if I want.

Wow, it's a brave new world. Yeah, I'm not going to because there are no other flights to change too.

But thanks for the offer if I wanted to change too. But thanks for the offer. If I wanted to go

somewhere else. If I wanted to go through Nashville on a three hour layover I can.

It's so nice of them to give you the option.

Yeah, I mean it is kind of a statement of the, I guess the health of the industry right now that

American operating between LaGuardia and Chicago there's like two non-stop a day, maybe three

non-stop on a weekday as opposed to in the past where there could have been hourly, not could have been, but it wasn't hourly.

Yeah, that could have been, were hourly.

Yeah, literally from 7 a.m.

probably till 8 p.m.

There was a flight every hour.

Now it's three times a day at best.

That's...

We're getting better, but it ain't great.

No, it's a slow ramp up, especially since I'm flying on Saturday.

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