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🗓️ 3 August 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

We talk about the benefits of participating in the FAA WINGS program in lieu of doing a Flight Review (formerly called a BFR), which pilots in the U.S. must do every two years. Instead of spending an hour on the ground reviewing Part 91 rules and regulations, the FAA WINGS program lets you can take free online courses instead, which may be a better use of your time, if you choose courses that help keep you safer when you fly.

We had lots of feedback on entering the traffic at non-Towered Airports. Not everyone likes the FAA preferred entry for crossing over the field at 500 feet above pattern altitude and then turning to enter on the 45. But we don’t get to pick which rules to follow and not follow, just because we don’t like them!

Plus an Air Canada flight 759 near miss update. Oddly, that aircraft was not visible on SFO’s surface radar for 12 seconds, and we explain why. Plus listener questions. An instrument pilots asks about how to activate an instrument approach on his Garmin GPS.

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0:00.0	Hello, and thank you for joining me today. Coming up in the news, well, EAA's Air Venture is over for the year,
0:07.7	but we still have some announcements from last week, including a new aviation superhero that kids will soon be reading about in comic books.
0:15.3	And an airline crew just made a goof that some private pilots make sometimes. And there's now a really low-cost
0:22.1	ADSB-out solution that aircraft owners can install to meet the 2020 mandate, plus listener
0:28.6	questions and email. Welcome to Aviation News Talk, where we talk about, you bet our favorite
0:33.7	subject, general aviation. I'm Max Ruskot. I'm here to pass along all those
0:37.6	tidbits, which will hopefully help you keep flying safely by sharing my over 40 years of
0:41.7	experience as a licensed pilot, author, and 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year.
0:46.8	This is our second episode of the week. If you haven't checked out the Monday show,
0:50.6	it's about free flight training from Cirrus. You might want to listen to that. Now, today, we're going to talk about the FAA Wings program, plus a lot of listener feedback on how to enter
0:58.6	the pattern at non-towered airports. That's a newspaper up in Appleton, Wisconsin.
1:24.7	And it tells us that comic book legend Stan Lee, now if you don't know who he is, he's
1:29.1	the publisher, and actually the former publisher of Marvel Comics, and he is also the guy
1:34.2	who created Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk, the X-Men, and other superheroes.
1:39.3	And he has announced, along with the EA's Jack Pelton, a new partnership.
1:43.5	And it's going to be an alliance
1:44.7	between the Stan Lee Foundation and EAA's Young Eagles program. And their plan is they're going
1:49.7	to develop aviation-related programs and content to try and inspire young people to get
1:54.8	involved in all aspects of aviation. According to Jack Pelton, this will take the Young
1:59.2	Eagles program to a whole new level.
2:03.5	Now, they have come up with aviore.
2:07.1	So you spell this A-V-I-O-R-E.
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