AvTalk Episode 314: World Champion Gas Ballooning
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
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4.8 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 4 April 2025
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
On this episode of AvTalk, we learning all about long endurance gas balloons with a world record holder. We learn more about the erroneous TCAS alerts that plagued aircraft near DCA at the beginning of March and what the FAA is doing following a fist fight in the DCA air traffic control tower. Heathrow’s chief […]
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 314 of AvTalk. |
| 0:11.9 | I am Ian Petchnik here as always with Jason Rubinowitz. |
| 0:16.5 | Hello, Ian, how are you? |
| 0:18.8 | Hello, Jason. |
| 0:19.6 | I'm well. |
| 0:20.2 | The kids are back in school after a week and a half off for spring break. |
| 0:25.4 | I was definitely ready for the return to normalcy, and I'm happy to have it. |
| 0:30.9 | How are you, sir? |
| 0:32.3 | Fine. |
| 0:33.3 | Trying to dig out of being buried in a mountain of work leading up to an industry conference |
| 0:38.5 | and some other junk. |
| 0:39.7 | But hey, I get to go to Chicago next week. |
| 0:44.4 | And I know someone else who lives in Chicago. |
| 0:48.5 | It might be you. |
| 0:49.2 | That's good. |
| 0:49.8 | It might be you. |
| 0:50.6 | It might be me. |
| 0:52.5 | I'm looking for you seeing you next week. |
| 0:54.9 | Yeah, next week's podcast. I don't know. We might do something a little different. Yeah, depending on Jason's schedule, |
| 1:00.2 | we'll see how things go. But before that, we have to get through this week's episode, which is a |
| 1:05.9 | good one. This week we're talking about some very interesting things that have happened in the past week, |
| 1:11.9 | but we're also speaking with world champion gas balloonists, stepping outside our commercial |
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