Hello and welcome to episode 2008 of Avtoc. I am Ian Petchenic here as always with

Jason Rubino. It's good to be back with you Ian in a mental state where I am not

40 seconds off a jet lag nap. I'm here. I'm fully engaged. I've even read the

show notes. I'm ready to go. Do you even remember recording last week's episode?

I don't. I really don't. When I say it was

seconds after waking up from a nap, I do actually mean it was seconds after waking up from a nap. We should have put that

audio of you of you coming into the recording space because I think that would have

been enjoyable. I'm sure it was a great episode anyway right? Mm-hmm.

Absolutely. Yep, it was.

But you're back.

You've had more than a few minutes

after a trans-specific flight.

Now we're ready to dive in.

Yeah, took a week to knock off that jet lag, but I did it and I'm back to normal.

I'm proud of you. Thank you. So we begin the show with the United States Federal

Aviation Administration.

There's a lot going on here.

We'll start with the most obvious news in which today the FAA released a saffo, which is a safety alert for operators.

Basically a memo that the FAA sends out to aircraft operators. It depends on what the what the

particular memo is about depending on who gets it. But this one went to pretty much everyone who is operating an

aircraft in some sort of commercial capacity in the US. And it's a two-page memo.

The long and the short of it is,

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