AvTalk Episode 9: Vectors for Landing and Coins for Luck
AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
Flightradar24
4.8 • 911 Ratings
🗓️ 7 July 2017
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
In episode 9, we talk about some of the stranger aviation stories over the past few weeks, including a passenger new to approach patterns and a woman who threw coins into an engine for luck. We also talk with Jeremy Dwyer-Lindgren Norwegian’s first 737 MAX delivery and long-haul, low-cost flying. Approach and Landing A passenger, […]
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to episode 9 of Avtock. I am Ian Petchnick and I am here as always with |
| 0:11.6 | a meowing cat and Jason Rabinowitz. |
| 0:14.2 | Hello. |
| 0:15.4 | Not the same, not the same folks by the way. |
| 0:17.8 | There's a cat and Jason. |
| 0:20.7 | You can't be sure of that. |
| 0:21.7 | This is audio. I'm telling the people what they should expect. |
| 0:25.0 | Oh, all right. Okay. So it's July 5th and my 4th of July was a bit different than I thought it would be. |
| 0:35.6 | Yeah, sorry about that. |
| 0:37.6 | And it's all your fault. |
| 0:39.2 | Yeah, I take full responsibility for the shenanigans that happened yesterday. |
| 0:43.7 | So to bring everyone up to speed, and we'll move through this quickly because it's not the |
| 0:48.9 | point of the story, to bring everyone up to speed, a person that was on an American Airlines flight from Phoenix to New York City |
| 0:57.0 | posted something on social media accusing the flight crew of being inebriated because of multiple turns that the aircraft |
| 1:06.7 | made while approaching New York City. |
| 1:10.3 | Jason responded. After the airline responded, |
| 1:14.4 | Jason responded, because this person was insistent that it was the case. |
| 1:18.6 | Jason responded, I responded to Jason's response and the situation escalated from there. |
| 1:26.0 | Long story short, the flight crew was not at all inebriated. |
| 1:30.0 | The follow-on accusation that the air traffic controllers were inebriated is false. |
| 1:36.0 | And it turns out that in very, very congested airspace, air traffic controllers have to provide direction to aircraft so that they can safely land. |
| 1:47.0 | This person was unfamiliar with it perhaps and we're moving on from that segment of this, we'll call it shenanigans. |
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