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228 3 Things You Don’t Know about VFR into IMC Accidents + GA News

228 3 Things You Don’t Know about VFR into IMC Accidents + GA News

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228 Max talks with Rob Mark about VFR into IMC Accidents and a free online course available from AOPA’s Air Safety Institute. These are the most common weather accidents, and 90% are fatal. They happen to even very high time pilots, and they’re ten times more likely to occur at night. Pilots need a strategy for when this occurs to them, and they need to learn how to estimate flight visibility.

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Mentioned in the Show
AOPA ASI’s VFR into IMC Avoidance and Escape course
FBO Fees May Have Motivated VFR-into-IMC
Accident Case Study: Chicago to NC flight VFR into IMC
Accident Case Study: SR20 Indiana to DuPage flight
Accident Case Study: VFR into IMC over Bakersfield, CA
Understanding the Human Factors Associated with Visual Flight Rules Flight Into Instrument Meteorological Conditions
Assessments of Flight and Weather Conditions during General Aviation Operations

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189 AOPA on Warbirds Adventures Case and its Impact on CFIs, Cirrus Safety Award + GA News

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189 Max talks with AOPA General Counsel Justine Harrison and Jared Allen about the impact of the Warbirds Adventures Case on Flight Instruction. The immediate impact is if you provide instruction for compensation in a limited category aircraft, you need an FAA exemption. The FAA has been asked to interpret how the decision affects other flight instruction. Max receives Cirrus 2020 Safety Award.

News Stories

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NOVA – Hindenburg: The New Evidence
NOVA – Great Electric Airplane Race
Traveling Salesman Problem Solved for Airports in Every State

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182 PIREP Issues and Automated Ways to Submit PIREPs, FAR 61.57(c) Review: Instrument Currency + GA News

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182 Pilots Reports (PIREPs). What you need to know about PIREPs and issues with them. Also ways to submit PIREPs electronically from the cockpit, including the Aerovie app (now Stratus Insight) and via the aviationweather.gov website. The Virga app lets you share your PIREPS with friends, though they aren’t distributed through the national system. We also review FAR 61.57(c) on Instrument currency.

News Stories

Mentioned in the Show
ILS on the Chopping Block – IFR Magazine
FAR 61.57(c) Instrument Currency
FAA AC00-45H Weather Services
2016 AOPA PIREP Survey
2017 NTSB Special Investigation Report (PIREPS)
2020 AOPA Weather Survey
FAA’s Pilot Reports (PIREPs) Summit
NASA ASRS Report on PIREPS
AOPA ASI PIREP Course
Appareo Stratus Insight EFB
Aviationweather.gov PIREP Entry Access Request
Fly Virga PIREP App

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AOPA Livermore Flyin and Aviation News Talk Meetup

112 AOPA Livermore Flyin and Aviation News Talk Meetup

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112 Max talks about the Aviation News Talk meetup that will be held at the AOPA Regional Flyin at Livermore, CA. The meetup with listeners will be from 5-6 PM on Friday, June 21, 2019 at the Starbucks located at the corner of Airway Blvd, which is the road that leads to the airport, and Kitty Hawk street. This is not a dinner, just a casual stop by, have a cup of tea or coffee and say hello. No need to RSVP, just show up.

Max will also be giving two presentations at the show. The first one is free. It’s at 3 PM on Friday, and it’s his How to Fly the S.F. Bay Tour seminar. Afterwards, S.F. Bay Tour maps will be available for sale for $15.

The second presentation is on Friday, and AOPA has included that as part of their workshop series, for which you do have to pay. The cost is $99 if you’ve registered in advance, and its $120 at the show. That gets you into all of the workshops, on both Friday and Saturday. The workshops run for 3-hours, and you can attend up to four of them. They start at 9 AM and 1 PM on both Friday and Saturday. Max’s workshop is Advanced IFR for modern GPS receivers, and it’s at 9 AM to noon on Saturday morning.

Max also discussed the NOTAMs in effect for the show. If you’re flying in to the show, you should read the NOTAM, as there are many changes from the standard procedures at Livermore.

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8 Lessons Pilots can Learn from the Boeing 737 MAX Crashes and the MCAS + General Aviation News

105 8 Lessons Pilots can Learn from the Boeing 737 MAX Crashes and the MCAS + GA News

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Summary
105 Max talks about the recent Boeing 737 MAX crashes, and the lessons that all pilots can learn from these accidents. Here’s a summary of his 8 Lessons Pilots can Learn from the Boeing 737 MAX Crashes:
#1 Know your aircraft systems intimately
#2 The documentation isn’t always complete. Join a type club.
#3 If you touch something and things get worse, undo what you did.
#4 If the autopilot is on and it’s doing weird things, turn it off. And vice versa.
#5 Understand what can cause runaway trim.
#6 Know how to disable the electric trim system in your aircraft.
#7 Make sure you can overpower the autopilot
#8 Know the critical single points of failure in your aircraft.

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Mentioned in the Show
What software organizations learn from the Boeing 737 MAX
South Dakota B-25 Tour
Dan Johnson Article: Electrics at Aero 2019
Pipistrel Sinus motorglider
AOPA Foundation – Donate!
SAFE Unveils CFI PROficiency™ Initiative
SAFE CFI Professional Society – Join online for $45
AOPA Article: TECHNIQUE: TAMING THE STALL
Boeing 737 MAX image – Creative Commons license

Videos Mentioned in the Show
Stratolaunch, the world’s largest airplane
Slipping and Skidding Stalls video

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89 General Aviation in Australia – Interview Benjamin Morgan, AOPA Australia

89 General Aviation in Australia – Interview Benjamin Morgan, AOPA Australia

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Max talks with Benjamin Morgan, Executive Director of AOPA Australia about the state of General Aviation in Australia. Number of Private pilots is declining. AOPA is working to inspire youth. They’ve acquired a bus full of simulators they drive around the country, and is buying low cost Cessna 150s for flight training. GA also faces regulatory challenges with CASA, which regulates all aviation in Australia.

The number of flight instructors have declined, since independent flight instructors haven’t been permitted since a rule change in 1999. After that decision, flight training declined significantly. Smaller flight schools have been unable to survive, and a significant number of the larger flight schools have been bought by China, to train pilots for SE Asia. Much training is done through local Aero Clubs, but many of these no longer have any low cost airplanes for flight training.

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AOPA Australia
Max’s Kangaroo Video!

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79 AOPA Carbondale Interviews with Jack Pelton, Adrian Eichhorn, and Catherine Cavagnaro, Red Bull Update + GA News

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AOPA Carbondale Fly-in Interviews
Max interviews a dozen pilots at the AOPA Carbondale, IL Regional Fly-in including EAA President Jack Pelton, round-the-world Bonanza pilot Adrian Eichhorn, and 2018 FAASTeam Rep of the Year Catherine Cavagnaro, who is an expert in spin training and writes for AOPA Pilot magazine.

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Mentioned in the Show
Cirrus Migration 16 Event – Las Vegas, October 11-14, 2018
Podcasting on a Plane Episode 31 with Max Trescott
AOPA Region Fly-In Gulf Shores, AL

Videos
Video of Helicopter Blades Snagging Rope During Rescue
AOPA ASI recreation: Houston Hobby SR20 Traffic Pattern Accident
AOPA ASI Recreation: SR22 in the pattern at Melbourne, FL
State Police Helicopter Buzzing Incident at Penn State
Coming Soon: Spin and Wake Turbulence videos by Catherine Cavagnaro

News Stories

54 Air Traffic Control (ATC) Government Privatization Update for General Aviation Private and Instrument Pilots and People Planning to Learn to Fly – Interview with Rob Mark

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Max interviews Flying Magazine Sr. Editor Rob Mark to discuss recent developments surrounding the proposal to spin off ATC from the FAA and give it to a new non-profit corporation.

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