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Listeners recommended ten headlamps for night flying and Max purchased and evaluated six of them to see how well they worked in the cockpit. The FAA has a new Advisory Circular on Non-Towered Airport Operations, and Max talks about what's new in it. A listener passes along an idea for identifying the runway orientation at unfamiliar airports. Another listener asks when is the best time of year to fly a Cessna172 from New York City across the country, and what routes should he take.

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News Stories

• EARU Crash Investigation Focuses on Wing Spar
• Citation and Cessna 150 Collide on the Ground at Marion Indiana Airport
• Cirrus Vision Jet Wins Collier Trophy
• FAA Extends ADS-B Mandate To 2040- April Fools!
• FAA Response to April Fools Story
• CANADA ADS-B MANDATE MOVES CLOSER
• Aviation reform 'grounded' by Barnaby's successor
• uAvionix Introduces New Low-Cost ADS-B Products
• All-Electric Sun Flyer 2 Takes Flight

56 ATC Visual Separation for Private Pilots Explained, NTSB Report on NYC Helicopter Accident

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Max talks in detail about visual separation, the responsibility pilots assume when they agree to maintain visual separation, and methods they can use for avoiding other aircraft. The NTSB preliminary report reveals more on that NYC helicopter crash that killed five passengers. A listener asks about when to switch from ground to tower at a towered airport, another listener asks about simulating an AHRS failure in a Garmin G1000 equipped aircraft, and another listener ask what exactly controllers mean when they say to enter on a 2-mile base.

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• NTSB Releases Preliminary Report on NY Helicopter Accident
• PRESIDENT TRUMP SIGNS GOVERNMENT FUNDING BILL
• SMO Reports Fewer Jets, More Helicopters
• VAN'S AIRCRAFT FOUNDER's SUCCESSFUL SAFETY PROGRAM
• CASA COMMENCES CHANGES TO CLASS 2 MEDICALS
• CAA says LAPL and PPL holders can self-declare medical fitness
• Shoreham Air Show crash pilot Andrew Hill to be charged with manslaughter
• Unlicensed pilot, who blamed Suffolk plane crash on prosthetic limb, sent to jail

55 Entering and Flying Traffic Patterns Safely, Cirrus SR22 Landing Accident, FAA Grounds Open Door Helicopter Tours

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Max talks in detail about some of the challenges pilots face entering a traffic pattern and how to follow a slower aircraft. There was an unusual accident in Florida in which a Cirrus SR22 landed on top of a SR20 that had just landed. Fortunately, there were not injuries. The FAA grounds open door helicopter tours in the wake of an NYC accident in which tethered passengers drowned because they were unable to release their tethers. A listener asks about the requirements for floatation devices for a planned flight from Florida to the Bahamas.

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News Stories

• floatplane pilot 'buzzed' a Wasilla man and hit him in the head
• Chopper flights with open doors, tight restraints grounded
• Dynon Receives STC for SkyView in Cessna 172s
• Cirrus SR22 lands on SR20 Accident
• DUATS is dead. Here's why you won't miss it
• GA Advocates Support A&P Training Bill
• Voom Launches in Mexico City
• Kitty Hawk Tests VTOL Drone in New Zealand
• Great Air Race to fly 'electric planes' between England and Australia

54 Air Traffic Control (ATC) Government Privatization Update – 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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Max talks in detail about the results of the survey in which listeners gave detailed feedback on what they like and dislike about the different aviation headsets they own.

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News Stories

• F-104 Flight Training Launches At Florida's Kennedy Space Center
• AOPA Announces 2018 Scholarship Programs
• LSA News - Ranger R7 introduced
• Terrafugia adds minivan to flying car programme
• Garmin Connext Now Compatible with Fltplan Go App
• uAvionix expands UK weather broadcast trials
• UK Housing Secretary pledges review of airfield planning policy
• Noreaster PIREPS - Everyone Throwing up
• More PIREPS
• RCAF Life Raft Lands In Woman's Bed

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There are a couple of ways to load an instrument approach when flying an approach with vectors from ATC. In this show we talk about the tradeoffs involved. The easiest way is to load the approach with vectors, but then you won't see all of the approach waypoints. A better alternative is loading the approach with an IAF and then activating the leg to which ATC is vectoring you. Trump's personal pilot being considered for FAA Administrator. If you have a question you'd like answered on the show, let listeners hear you ask the question, by recording your listener question using your phone. Click here for the current listener survey. Tell us about the aviation headset you use most, what you like and dislike about it, and if you're planning to buy a new headset. Please visit my new Patreon page and make a contribution to help me with my goal of improving the AviationNewsTalk.com website. Mentioned in the Show Check out our recommended ADS-B receivers, and order one for yourself. Yes, we'll make a couple of dollars if you do. Check out our recommended Aviation Headsets, and order one for yourself! News Stories

• Textron Aviation Ends Cessna TTx Production
• GAMA Year-End Stats Point to Market Turnaround
• Exclusive:Trump privately pushing personal pilot to run FAA
• Drone collisions, close calls underscore growing risks for aircraft
• Suspected Drone Collision Causes $4,000 In Damage
• Mechanics retiring faster than they can be replaced
• Aviation Week & Space Technology - Pentagon and FAA Lag in Agreement on ADS-B Out
• CAA warns PPLs of looming licence deadline
• AvGas Update - Bad gas delivered in Canada

Your Cirrus Specialist. Call me if you're thinking of buying a new Cirrus SR20 or SR22. Call 1-650-967-2500 for Cirrus purchase and training assistance. Send us an email - http://www.sjflight.com/Forms/inquiry.htm If you have a question you'd like answered on the show, let listeners hear you ask the question, by recording your listener question using your phone. Max interviews Chuck Price, who accompanied him on a recent trip to the Cirrus delivery center in Knoxville, TN to pick up a new Cirrus SR22T for a buyer and then fly the aircraft back to California. Together they flew nearly 2,000 nautical miles in a day and a half as they dodged snow and ice on the return trip to San Jose, California. And if you're interested in buying a new or a slightly used Cirrus, please contact me now so I can help you learn more about that process. And if you're looking to buy a new aircraft, like the one I ferried back with Chuck, let me set up a free demo flight for you. I specialize in the Cirrus and work with people around the world. Click here for the current listener survey. Tell us about the aviation headset you use most, what you like and dislike about it, and if you're planning to buy a new headset. Please visit my new Patreon page and make a contribution to help me with my goal of improving the AviationNewsTalk.com website.

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Max talks in detail about what to do if the glide slope fails during an ILS approach. Also, updates on ATC Privatization and the United 1175 incident. Finally, a listener asks whether he'll be able to get traffic information in an aircraft without ADS-B Out after the January 2020 mandate goes into effect.

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News Stories

• Trump Budget Blueprint Includes ATC Privatization
• Saudi man in Oklahoma charged with lying about al Qaeda training
• AD Affects 14,653 Cessnas
• Goulian Wins Abu Dhabi Red Bull
• Piper Aircraft - Order for 152 Aircraft
• Ireland: Student pilots took off at same time
• 2018 National GA Award honorees named
• Tampa police: PCB man tries to steal 2 planes, crashes fuel truck
• ERAU Offers Free Online Course
• Two Hot Air Balloons 'Pulled Over' By Local Sheriff's Deputies In California

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Max talks in detail about Radio Communications with ATC at towered airports, like Class D, and C, and B airports. Jason Miller talks about current NOAA SARSAT policy for testing ELTs.

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News Stories

• Halladay Had Drugs In System
• Disruption Limited In Government Shutdown
• FAA Knowledge Tests Halted
• Secret Service: Lantana air rules tough, but needed to protect POTUS
• FLIGHT ADVISORY ISSUED FOR STATE OF THE UNION ADDRESS
• FAA plans to redesign San Francisco's Class B airspace
• Piper AD Affects 19,000 Aircraft
• AUSTRALIA'S SAFETY REPORT CARD
• Earth's magnetic field shift will cost hundreds of thousands of dollars at airport

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Max talks in detail about the AeroMexico 668 go around at SFO and how our expectations as a pilot can change our perceptions of what we hear. GAMA President Pete Bunce gives a wide range of GA updates.

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News Stories

• Doctor leaps from Airplane Just Prior to Crash
• Garmin Gets STC for GFC 500 Autopilot for Cessna 172 and 182
• Cirrus SR22T Lost In The Gulf Of Mexico
• Family Of Missing Flight Student Sues Flight School
• Vulcanair V1.0 certified
• GE Completes First Ground Run of Advanced Turboprop
• UK Government to crack down on sale of laser pointers
• Chinese Electric Airplane Gets Range Boost
• Marriage Proposal