Icon A-5 seaplane crash, Diamond DA42 trip report, Airline Pilot use of pitch and power to control airspeed+GA news - EP9
Aviation News Talk podcast
Glass Cockpit Publishing
4.8 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 11 May 2017
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Dictate a listener question from your phone, or send an email. News stories Icon A-5 CrashForeFlight and Jeppesen collaboration FAA Spending Bill Signed into Law Pilots flock to BasicMed Decline in number of ATPs issues Court Orders Review of FAA Deal To Close Santa Monica Airport FAA issues warning on using commercial checklists First commercial two-seater solar plane flies General aviation in China could amount to $40 billion Skydiver in Denmark dangles from C182 for an hour
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| 0:00.0 | Thank you for joining us. Coming up on the show, lots of news and safety tips, including this sad story from ICON aircraft, maker of the A5 amphibious seaplane. They had their first fatal accident this week, which killed two employees. And it happened on the lake where I've landed my seaplane numerous times. We'll talk about the hazards at that lake. |
| 0:21.8 | And a skydiver in Europe dangles from a Cessna 182 for over an hour before the pilot |
| 0:26.9 | finally has to land with him in tow. The FAA has issued a warning about using checklist. |
| 0:33.5 | Also FAA data shows that airline-ready U.S. pilot numbers are tumbling, and a two-seat general |
| 0:39.8 | aviation aircraft made its first flight using solar power. Plus, I'll give an update on my trip |
| 0:46.0 | flying a Twin Diamond DA 42 from California to Texas last week, and I'll talk about how I spent |
| 0:52.7 | last weekend in a Circe Vision jet. Boy, was that fun. |
| 0:56.7 | Plus, listener mail, including an airline pilot who responded with his tips to my earlier |
| 1:01.2 | episode on nailing the airspeed on final using power and pitch. All this and more, and the news starts |
| 1:08.0 | now. |
| 1:28.6 | Welcome to Aviation News Talk, where we talk about general aviation. |
| 1:33.4 | I'm Max Truscott, and I'm here to share my over 40 years of experience as a licensed pilot as we talk about news and safety tips to help you fly safely. |
| 1:37.3 | And here's how you can help. |
| 1:38.7 | If you like the show, please tell all of your friends. |
| 1:41.7 | And special thanks to the six people who left iTunes reviews last week. |
| 1:45.6 | I pick one review, which I'll read at the end of the show. |
| 1:49.4 | From NBCbayarea.com, two men died aboard a small plane that crashed in Lake Beriesa on Monday morning. |
| 1:57.2 | The FAA said that the aircraft was a single-engine icon A5, which crashed under unknown |
| 2:02.3 | circumstances. Now, this is the first fatal crash of the icon A5. This is a very well-publicized |
| 2:08.5 | startup company founded by Kirk Hawkins, who was a Stanford graduate, and it's well-backed |
| 2:14.2 | by a venture capitalist here in Silicon Valley. The company's factory is in Vacaville, which is in the northern portion of the San Francisco Bay Area. |
| 2:23.4 | And a lot of their test flights and training are done on Lake Beriesa, which is perhaps 20 miles away. |
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