AvTalk Episode 348: Consider the airspace closed in its entirety
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
Flightradar24
4.8 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 5 December 2025
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Summary
We walk through the current NOTAMs affecting flights in and around Venezuela, as well as some of the unofficial pronouncements made with regard to Venezuelan airspace. We also discuss new reporting on the rift between the NTSB and India’s AAIB regarding the investigation of AI171. Airbus A320 family aircraft were grounded for a period last week to address a vulnerability in certain elevator aileron computers (ELAC). And a pair of reports show the benefits of the ground proximity warning system (GPWS).
Helpful links for this week’s episode
* NOTAMs regarding Venezuela
* Unofficial statements regarding Venezuelan airspace
* Reporting on NTSB-AAIB rift
* Flightradar24 playback of Air Arabia GPWS incident departing Catania
* Flightradar24 playback of Ryanair GPWS incident in Malaga
* Ryanair Malaga preliminary report
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 348 of AvTalk. I am Ian Petchnik, joined for the first time ever by |
| 0:17.0 | Daniel Gistossum. Daniel, welcome to not only AvTalk, welcome to Flight Radar 24. |
| 0:24.3 | We are in the Stockholm office this week. |
| 0:27.9 | Jason is currently traversing Japan. |
| 0:30.5 | Last we checked in with him, he was riding a lot of trains and at a cat cafe. |
| 0:35.7 | So not conducive to recording a podcast this week. So Daniel, who has |
| 0:40.0 | recently joined Flight Raider 24 on the content communications team with me, is filling in for |
| 0:47.4 | this episode. So Daniel, welcome. Thank you so much. It's an honor. I feel like a lightweight |
| 0:52.5 | Jason somehow. Also, I want to add that it sounds terrible to be in Japan. I'd much rather be here. Yeah, of course, in the beautiful Stockholm weather. Who needs good food and cat cafes and bull to trains? Nobody. Nobody. That's right. |
| 1:07.0 | Daniel, tell us a little bit about your background, where you are coming from and how you made your way to Flavor 24. |
| 1:12.9 | Right. So to make a really complicated long story very short or reasonably short, I started out as a journalist, and then I ventured into PR. |
| 1:23.1 | I became essentially a PR monkey. And then I had a midlife crisis and I decided to be a pilot. |
| 1:29.8 | So I became a pilot. |
| 1:31.8 | And I worked as an airline pilot for a couple of years. |
| 1:34.6 | And I, since the pandemic, which affected B, along with a lot of other folks, of course, |
| 1:39.7 | I've been basically switching back and forth between aviation and marketing. |
| 1:44.2 | So that's basically it. |
| 1:45.5 | And now you can do both. |
| 1:46.9 | Now I can do both. |
| 1:48.1 | Well, welcome. |
| 1:49.1 | We've got a good show today. |
| 1:51.8 | Lots to get through some things that we haven't been able to get to over the past few weeks |
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