42 Portable ADS-B Receiver Pilot Reviews and Roy Halladay Icon A5 accident update + General Aviation News
Aviation News Talk podcast
Glass Cockpit Publishing
4.8 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2017
⏱️ 47 minutes
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In this episode, Max reviews results of the latest listener survey on portable ADS-B receivers and revisits their limitations, namely that while they appear to show all traffic, they do not! Listeners share what they like best and least about these receivers. And Max shares the preliminary NTSB report on the Icon A5 crash that killed MLB pitcher Roy Halladay.
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Mentioned in the Show
Transport Canada article on Special VFR
NTSB Accident Database Inquiry Form
FAA's Conducting an Effective Flight Review
News Stories
- NTSB Preliminary Report on Roy Halladay Accident
- AMATEUR-BUILT AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT TOTALS DROP TO HISTORIC LOWS
- NEW 'FAA AERONAUTICAL CHART USER'S GUIDE' PUBLISHED
- FAA Warns of Unauthorized Use of Special Instrument Procedures
- Icom launches scrappage scheme for old radios
- LANCAIR MAKO OWNERS HAVE BRS PARACHUTE OPTION
- Lancair Builder Assistance Center takes off
- Caravan Hits Car On Takeoff
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, and thank you for joining us for episode 42 of the Aviation News Talk podcast, where we bring you general aviation news and relevant information that pilots can use. |
| 0:11.0 | Coming up in the news, the NTSB has just released the preliminary report on the A5 crash that killed Major League Baseball pitcher Roy Halliday, and we'll share the key findings in that report. |
| 0:21.9 | A Sessna caravan hits a car on takeoff, then crashes in the water. |
| 0:25.8 | Unfortunately, everyone survives, and we'll tell you how it all happened. |
| 0:29.3 | And finally, a popular high-performance aircraft is getting a new option just in time for Christmas, |
| 0:34.4 | and it's a parachute. |
| 0:35.8 | We'll tell you more in a moment. |
| 0:38.6 | Welcome to Aviation News Talk, where we talk about general aviation. I'm Max Truscott. I'm here to educate and inform |
| 0:43.6 | you as a pilot or student pilot, and hopefully we'll all have some fun in the process. Along the way, |
| 0:48.2 | I'll share my over 40 years of experience as a certificated pilot, author of the G-1000 Glass |
| 0:53.4 | Cockpit Handbook, and the 2008 National |
| 0:55.7 | Flight Instructor of the Year, and also a specialist in Circe aircraft like the SR20 and |
| 1:00.7 | SR-22. |
| 1:01.8 | Now, last week in episode 41, I talked about the ICON A5 aircraft, its features and limitations, |
| 1:08.2 | and how ICON seems to be encouraging low-level maneuvering with banks up to 60 degrees, just a few hundred feet above the water, and maybe normalizing this with buzzwords like low alt and soft dick. |
| 1:19.4 | If you want to learn more about the ICON A5, check out that episode. |
| 1:23.1 | This week, we have lots to share with you, and it all begins now. |
| 1:41.9 | Music This week, we have lots to share with you, and it all begins now. The NTSB has released their preliminary report on the Roy Holiday Accident. We'll include a link to it here on the show notes. |
| 1:48.6 | And I'm going to read from the report. In part, it says on November 7th, 2017, about 12.04 p.m. Eastern, an amphibious light sport icon aircraft A5, November 922BABA impacted open water in the Gulf of Mexico, while |
| 2:03.8 | maneuvering at low level near Newport, Ritchie, Florida. Private pilots sustained fatal injuries, |
| 2:09.1 | and the airplane was substantially damaged. The local area flight departed from a lake near the |
| 2:13.5 | pilot's home in Odessa, Florida, about 1147 a.m., which means the aircraft was in the air |
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