Hello and welcome to episode 354 of AvTalk. I am Ian Petchanick here as always with

Jason Rabinowitz. Hello, Ian. It is so nice to be back recording on our normal time,

our normal date in what feels like over a month. Yes, yes. It's been a while since we got back

on schedule. But here we are back on schedule. And as we recorded early last week, of course, of course, news broke pretty much as soon

as we had hit stop on the recording. And then also on Wednesday, which is our normal recording

day, which we would have been able to talk about had we recorded.

That's fine. I was on vacation. I was not concerned with any of that at that point. But I had a

nice time. It was good. I'm glad to hear it. And I'm glad you're back. And we've got plenty to

talk about. So let's dive in. This week, we begin in the middle of nowhere, literally. We begin in no FIR, because that is one of the

FIRs, or the absence of an FIR, that the United States government has said, hey, be careful.

Oh, it's one of these again, where nothing might happen or something might happen.

Yes, there's a wash of notems issued by the FAA with caution that hazardous conditions may exist

due to GPS interference and military aircraft operating at commercial flight levels without active

transponders. And while this is not new and while it has previously included a large

section of airspace, this includes a lot of airspace. This includes one of the Mexican FIERS, two of the Mexican FIERS, the Mexico

FIR, the Mazatlan FIR, the Central American FIR, the Ponima FIR, the Bogota FIR, the Guayaquil

FIR, and no FIR one, which is the area in the Northern Pacific that is not claimed nor administered by any

air traffic control, which is super interesting in its own right. And we should absolutely do a

full podcast segment on the no FIR. I've been actually working on a blog post for far too long. So this is a good

impetus to finish said post so that we can really talk about this. But no air traffic

control is offered within that airspace in the Northern Pacific. Is this the one that's off

the west coast of like Peru and Panama? Who even flies there? Are there any actual fights in that

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