The State of the National Air Space Podcast takes off now.

This is Roon Duke. I'm the senior Director of Government Affairs at AOPA. I handle airspace and air traffic issues.

I've been with AOPA five years. My background is military air traffic controller and I'm a fixed wing and rotary wing pilot.

Navy Nation, this is Justin Seams, a host of the pilot, the pilot podcast.

Today I'm talking with Roon Duke.

Roon Duke is the senior director of government affairs at

AOPA. I want to give a special shout out to Kevin Cortez and AOPA for being so

great and setting this up so quickly. AOP is a great organization and

definitely check them out and consider a membership if you are not a member already.

But A Nation, this is a great episode.

We talk with Roon Duke and he is kind of at the front lines.

He knows what's going on.

He is a part of some of the decisions that are being made and he is in the loop of what's going on he is a part of some of the decisions that are being made and he is in the

loop of what's going on we talk anything and everything national airspace system we talk

about the chances of it being shut down which some of you might besides to hear this

but they actually haven't even thought of that yet.

That's not even a tool that they're thinking about using because airspace is such a big necessity

for us right now. We need to move cargo, we need to move a bunch of things, a bunch of military, and it definitely serves a purpose right now. We need to move cargo. We need to move a bunch of military and it

definitely serves a purpose right now. So they're not even thinking about that.

We talk about the events at Midway, Vegas, JFK, and we talk about Indie Center.

We also talk about contingency plans that they have to help battle those and we talk about contingency plans that they have to help battle those and we talk

worst-case scenario which sector which tower which whatever would be kind of the

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