Hello and welcome to episode 222 of Av Talk.

I am Ian Petchenic here as always with.

Jason Ebenowitz, how are you Ian?

I'm well, Jason.

It's episode 222, and of course brings to mind the famous

Lufthansa flight 2-2-2-2-2 to-loose.

Ah, we'll talk about Toulouse in a little bit. We will. We will. We're not quite there yet, but that's the first thing that popped into my head as I led off the show. How are you, sir? I'm good. I'm good. I'm happy. I'm home. I'm not flying. I'm not trying to fly anywhere. We'll get to that in a little bit but I'm very happy to be home.

I wouldn't mind being somewhere else at the moment but I'm glad I'm not flying to get there. We've got the

Canadian wildfire smoke this week in Chicago so we had the dubious distinction.

Oh yeah that that's coming our way too. Yes yeah we're sending it your

but we had the very dubious distinction this week of having the worst air quality in the world.

So we're number one. Yay! That's great. I feel like we had that distinction that just a couple weeks ago and then here we go again so thanks Canada.

Your air quality disaster at least looked pretty.

It did I'm somewhat disappointed.

I wasn't here to see the sky turn a frightening shade of orange and I was happily in Germany

or whatever, but I kind of did want to see it, though I hope I never get the opportunity to see that.

Yeah, exactly, exactly. Well, thankfully it's supposed to go away this evening. It's Wednesday, June 28th,

and we've got some good stuff on tap in the show this week.

Later in the show, we chat with Zach Brown, who's the founder of the European Pride and

Aviation Network.

He's a pilot for a European Package Express carrier. We'll let mines wander on to what airline that might be.

But we talk about broadening who is involved in aviation and making sure that aviation is a place where everyone can see themselves.

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