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AvTalk Episode 297: He used a helicopter to ask

AvTalk - Aviation Podcast

Flightradar24

Places & Travel, Society & Culture, Business News, News, Leisure, Aviation

4.8911 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2024

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Ian is joined by Flightradar24 colleague Chris Lomas in Stockholm as Jason finishes his travels in Asia. In this news this week, a marriage proposal involving a helicopter and Flightradar24, Lufthansa’s stake in ITA Airways clears the final hurdle, Aeroflot takes its first wet lease, and a fire fighting Airbus A319 is in the works.
Helpful links for this week’s episode

* A helicopter marriage proposal
* Instrument calibration flight patterns

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to episode 297 of AvTalk.

0:12.0

I am Ian Petchnik here as a few times now with my colleague Chris Lomas, who is standing in for Jason Rabinowitz today, who's, I think,

0:23.5

as we're recording in Stockholm, Sweden, on CRJ 550.

0:29.6

So I think we're getting the better deal of it today.

0:32.4

Someone's got to be.

0:33.1

Yeah, 6am flight out of LaGuardia, I think.

0:37.4

Though don't feel bad for Jason, because as we talked about on last episode, he spent the week in Taiwan and Japan.

0:43.4

So I feel zero...

0:45.6

Very little sympathy.

0:46.7

No, no sympathy whatsoever.

0:48.8

But he'll be back next week.

0:50.4

But Chris was thankfully happy to join.

0:53.2

I didn't have to twist his arm too hard.

0:55.1

So Chris, welcome back to the podcast.

0:57.2

It's always great to have you.

0:58.0

Yeah, great to be here again.

0:58.9

And for the first time in the same room.

1:00.7

Exactly.

1:01.3

Ever been in the same building, in fact, all the same country.

1:04.6

That's true.

1:05.3

Every time you're on the show, you're well and truly in the woods somewhere.

1:09.7

Yeah. well and truly in the woods somewhere, yeah. So Chris and I, along with most of the rest of the

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