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AvTalk Episode 352: It’s the deicing that’ll get ya

AvTalk - Aviation Podcast

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🗓️ 9 January 2026

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

We begin the year with a mess in Amsterdam as more than 3,000 flights have been canceled at the airport this week following snow storms and a long list of operational problems. We look at the impact on civil aviation from the US military action in Venezuela last weekend. Kazakhstan investigators issue an update on […]

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to episode 352 of Avdoc, our first new episode of 2026. I am Ian Petchnik, here as always with. Jason Rubinowitz. Hello, Ian. How was your, I hope,

0:26.0

some time off? It was good. Yeah, I took a small amount of time off and was able to get away for a

0:33.5

couple days last weekend. But other than that, it was go, go, go. We had a lot to do.

0:37.8

We were busy tracking Santa.

0:39.3

I mean, that's very important because if you don't, who will, except for the entire United

0:45.0

States military with NORAD and all that? But, you know, you do it on a global scale.

0:50.2

Exactly. Exactly. And this here we had, Santa was tracked 33 million times on Flight Rider 24.

0:58.5

Is that the most ever?

0:59.6

That's the most ever for anything.

1:01.5

Wait, not just for Santa. That was the most anything has ever been tracked?

1:04.9

Yeah, that's the most anything has ever been tracked. Thirty-three million times.

1:08.1

The previous record is Queen Elizabeth's final flight when her coffin

1:14.0

was flown from Scotland to London, and that was 6 million.

1:18.1

It's not even close. It's not even. I mean, most flights also don't last like an entire day.

1:25.3

So there is that. Santa's got that going for him. Exactly. So I guess on a minute by minute basis, the queen still reigns.

1:32.4

All hell the queen, I guess.

1:33.8

But Santa's a close second, I guess, on that one. But while we got some time away, many

1:39.6

things were happening. And so we'll cover as much as we can in the intervening few weeks. We took a week

1:45.5

off completely. We had our annual clip show last week, which I hope everyone enjoyed some great

1:53.5

conversations there from 2025. And then we come back thinking it'll be a nice ease in the year. We'll talk about some orders,

2:05.2

some deliveries, what's going to happen this year. But Amsterdam, among other things, had other

2:12.8

plans for us. Jason, I heard you had the possibility that you might be traveling through Amsterdam but

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