OB365: Best Supporting Penguin
Opposing Bases: Air Traffic Talk
Air Traffic Talk
4.8 • 811 Ratings
🗓️ 30 December 2024
⏱️ 77 minutes
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Episode 365 Show Notes
Topic of the show: Night VFR Flying From Patron TH On this week’s episode, RH and AG discuss the separate night VFR rating in Australia and what it means for us in the US. What should instructors emphasize in their student’s requisite night training to prepare them for the risks involved? We also discuss electric air taxis, contract towers, and spin training. This is our last episode of 2024. Happy New Year!
Timely Feedback:
1. Patron ES discusses spins
2. Patron JW gets the shortest email award with a question about contract towers
3. MJ may have met a fellow listener
Feedback
1. Patron BF sends a note about retirement
2. Patron SN asks about Air Taxis
3. Patron PA sent a poem!
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| 0:00.0 | it might appear like a shadow in front of others of something you can see. |
| 0:05.9 | That is a scary feeling. |
| 0:07.3 | But then this dark mass starts to cover the city. |
| 0:10.3 | And I'm like, what is that? |
| 0:12.9 | Are we going to hit that? |
| 0:14.2 | I can't tell if we're going to clear this thing or not. |
| 0:17.0 | That's scary. |
| 0:17.7 | But if you were out there VFR and you didn't have like some sort of known safe altitude |
| 0:23.9 | that at this I am not going to hit anything right here, it would be really tough to know. |
| 0:29.6 | Ready. This is Opposing Bases Air Traffic Talk. Your host, Alpha Golf and Romeo Hotel, |
| 0:44.2 | have a half century of aviation experience in combat helicopters, airliners, and air traffic |
| 0:50.3 | control. They answer your questions about flying aviation aviation, and ATC. This weekly podcast |
| 0:56.9 | is for entertainment and education and does not serve as a replacement for a qualified flight |
| 1:02.4 | instructor, an examiner, the FARs, the 7110, your best friend, your next pilot, or your cat. |
| 1:10.5 | November 628 Charlie Delft, the Squ, 1-200, frequency change approved. |
| 1:14.7 | The audio will be available on live ATC. |
| 1:17.0 | Good day. |
| 1:17.9 | November 643, Julie McClure, Visual Prox, runway, 2-3 left, Connick Tower. |
| 1:22.2 | November 3-222-Yanky, area of heavy to extreme precipitation, 2 o'clock block to one o'clock, 15 miles, 7 miles. |
| 1:30.3 | 3047 Charlie, try a departure, radar contact, climbing and maintain 8,000. |
| 1:34.3 | November 747 Sierra Lema, reduce speed to 180, your overtaking traffic ahead on final. |
| 1:40.3 | Skyhawk 77th angle, IFR can't place and received, received, walk VFRR, Pricks, which a change, approved. |
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