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146 Understanding WAAS GPS Approach Minimums + GA News Apr 16, 2020

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146 Understanding WAAS GPS Approach Minimums + GA News

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Summary 146 Max talks about the seven different kinds of minimums used on WAAS-based GPS Approaches. These include LPV, LNAV/VNAV, LNAV, LP, LNAV+V, LP+V, and circling minimums. To measure GPS errors, the FAA has installed GPS receivers at 38 locations in North America. Error information from these sites is uplinked to two new geosynchronous satellites that retransmit it to WAAS-capable receivers.

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Mentioned in the Show FAA Coronavirus website Donate one Hobbs hour of money to coronavirus charities Scott Dennstaedt's Pilot Tip on Wind Shear Videos Mentioned in the Show Video: Flight Attendant Working at Home Xavion app displays wake turbulence at 10:42 in video

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145 Best Ways to Use a Home or Flight School Simulator – Interview Julian Alarcon Apr 09, 2020

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145 Best Ways to Use a Home or Flight School Simulator – Interview Julian Alarcon

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Summary145 Max talks with Julian Alarcon about best uses of a flight simulator both at home and at a flight school. We also talk about things for pilots to do while sheltering at home, including studying for a new certificate, such as the Commercial or CFI. Julian also talks about Simtech Aviation, located in New York City, and its G1000 simulator from Precision Flight Controls.

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144 3 Things To Do Immediately When Reporting an Accident per NTSB 830 + GA News Apr 02, 2020

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144 3 Things To Do Immediately When Reporting an Accident per NTSB 830 + GA News

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Summary144 Max talks about NTSB 830 and 3 things to do if you have an accident or incident. The three things you have to do are: 1) Notify the NTSB immediately of an accident or a serious incident. 2) The operator of the aircraft is responsible for preserving all wreckage to the extent possible. 3) The operator is required to file a report about any accident, though that can be up to ten days later.

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Mentioned in the Show Fun Flying Destination: Spam Museum Staying at Home is Starting to work FAASafety.gov Online Courses ASA's Private Oral Study Guide ASA's Instrument Oral Study Guide Aviation Accidents iOS App

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143 What You Need to Know about Wind Shear + GA News Mar 26, 2020

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143 What You Need to Know about Wind Shear + GA News

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Summary 143 Max talks about Wind Shear, which is one of the required topics for which student pilots must receive ground instruction in order to get a Private certificate. He talks about what wind shear is, and the accident that led scientists to research wind shear and how they used radar in their research. He also talks about where wind shear is found, how to avoid it, and how to report it.

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Mentioned in the Show Wind shear article: Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society Wind shear escape maneuver Harold Livingston, guest on Airplane Geeks podcast in #348 Doctor uses helicopter to call on Tangier Island Avoid Tangier Island for Now due to COVID-19 The Happiness Lab Podcast Jason Blair Book: Buying an Airplane Jason Blair Book: Owning an Airplane US Health Weather Map - smart thermometer data Backstory on wake turbulence photo

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142 Aviation News of the Weird and iPad Incidents with Flying Magazine's Rob Mark Mar 18, 2020

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142 Aviation News of the Weird and iPad Incidents with Flying Magazine's Rob Mark

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Summary 142 Max talks with Flying Magazine Sr. Editor Rob Mark about recent strange crashes and stupid criminals committing crimes involving planes and airports and advice for pilots becoming airline pilots. Plus commentary and tips for on the right way to fly an airplane. iPads are a new way for pilots to become distracted, and we talk about a number of crashes and near crashes involving iPads.

Mentioned in the Show Flying Magazine's On-Demand Video Service Rob Mark's JetWhine Blog

Coronavirus Resources MentionedMath Professor's YouTube video - explains why behavior change works in reducing coronavirus cases even when we have exponential growth

Article on Why Making Changes Today, Has a Big Impact on Total Coronavirus Cases

The Happiness Lab podcast #15 Coronavirus BONUS: Beat Your Isolation Loneliness

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141 GoFly Prize - $2 Million Dollar Contest to Create a VTOL Aircraft Mar 13, 2020

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141 GoFly Prize - $2 Million Dollar Contest to Create a VTOL Aircraft

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Summary141 Max attended the final fly off for $1,000,000, the largest prize of the GoFly Prize competition, and he talks with GoFly founder and CEO Gwen Lighter and DragonAir's Mariah Cain. Boeing sponsored the $1,000,000 prize and Pratt& Whitney sponsored the $100,000 Disrupter prize. There were three phases to the competition and 855 teams entered from 103 countries.

Mentioned in the Show GoFly Prize website GoFly Prize Master Lectures GoFly Prize Guidelines GoFly Prize Facebook page DragonAir Aviation DragonAir Facebook page Team teTra website

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140 Coronavirus Hits Airlines and General Aviation + GA News Mar 10, 2020

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140 Coronavirus Hits Airlines and General Aviation + GA News

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Summary140 Max talks about how Coronavirus, COVID-19, is impacting airlines, charter flights, and flight training. Airlines are reducing schedules, grounding aircraft, and giving employees voluntary time off at reduced pay, and stepping up aircraft cleaning efforts. Oil prices have plummeted, but not enough to offset revenue decline. The charter flight industry is seeing some short term increase in demand.

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139 Private Mock Checkride for Student Pilots - Interview with DPE Jason Blair Mar 02, 2020

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139 Private Mock Checkride for Student Pilots - Interview with DPE Jason Blair

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Summary139 Pilot examiner Jason Blair gives Max a mock Private checkride and asks him typical checkride questions. This is also a great review for your Flight Review or BFR! Max pretends to have brought a Cessna 172/G1000 to the checkride. They talk about required documents, aircraft systems, rules and regulations, and a cross country trip that Max prepared prior to the checkride.

Mentioned in the ShowJason Blair's Website Schedule a Checkride with Jason Jason Blair's YouTube Channel

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138 Wake Turbulence Accidents and What to Do to Avoid Them + GA News Feb 20, 2020

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138 Wake Turbulence Accidents and What to Do to Avoid Them + GA News

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Summary138 Max talks about wake turbulence accidents, what causes wake turbulence, and how to avoid it. He also talks about a recent encounter that he had with wake turbulence while flying a Cirrus Vision Jet.

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Mentioned in the ShowImage Credit: Wake Turbulence from NASA.gov Sebastian Schuon's Fun Flying Destination in Italy AIM Section 3 – Wake Turbulence AC 90-23 Advisory Circular – Wake Turbulence LSAs log growth in 2019 Pilot looking at iPad hits another plane on the taxiway Transponder Buyer's Guide FAA Emergency AD Grounds Cirrus Jet Fleet

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137 Kobe Bryant Crash, Special VFR, More IFR Challenges + GA News Feb 10, 2020

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137 Kobe Bryant Crash, Special VFR, More IFR Challenges + GA News

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Summary137 Max talks about risks associated with flying Special VFR and offers guidelines who when not to do it and about regulations for Special VFR, for pilots and controllers. He's also talks about why Kobe Bryant's helicopter wasn't flying IFR when it crashed. He also talks about some recent IFR challenges flying a Cirrus Vision Jet on an arrival into Salt Lake and into Hawthorne, CA.

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Mentioned in the ShowSuperior, Wisconsin Airport Cirrus SR22 Fuselage Damaged During Crash After The Accident: A Single Pilot Was Not Enough Crash of a Cessna 500 Citation in Marietta, GA Why Upset Training Just Doesn't Work Southern California Airspace Users Working Group YouTube Videos MentionsStudent Video: Tuskegee Airmen Video: JoAnn & Sandy Hill

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