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4.8 • 730 Ratings

🗓️ 12 October 2017

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Summary

There are many ways for a pilot to flight plan a trip. Traditionally, it was done with a paper map, pencil, and a plotter. But now there are many new flight planning tools available on the Internet and as smartphone apps for iPhone and Android phones. We first talk about which percentage of listeners use each tool, then describe the most popular tools, and finally describe how user use multiple tools. Some of the tools described include:

ForeFlight
Skyvector.com
Garmin Pilot
FltPlan.com
OzRunways
1800wxbrief.com
WingX
AOPA Flight Planner
DUATs
SkyDemon
NavPlan EFB
FlyQ EFB AirNav Pro
Mermoz

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0:00.0	Hello, and thank you for joining me for episode 36 of the Aviation News Talk podcast.
0:06.7	Coming up in the news, the city of Santa Monica continues to undermine their airport by trying
0:11.6	to shorten the runway, but this week there's a new twist to that story.
0:15.7	And for years, pilots have been predicting that eventually a drone would strike an aircraft.
0:19.9	Well, that prediction came true
0:21.3	along with serious damage to both drone and aircraft. And the FAA is proposing to save money by eliminating
0:27.6	a huge number of this kind of instrument approach. And finally, if you have access to most any vintage
0:34.2	aircraft, there's someone who wants to pay all of your expenses for a six-week
0:38.8	trip through 19 countries, and we'll tell you who wants to foot the bill. Then later, we'll
0:44.7	be talking about results from our listener survey on what flight planning tools that listeners use
0:49.5	in the process that they go through to plan a longer flight. Welcome to Aviation News Talk, where we talk about general aviation.
0:57.1	I'm Max Truska, and I'm here to help you fly more safely, whether you're a pilot or student
1:01.3	pilot by sharing my over 40 years of experience as a certificated pilot, author, 2008 National
1:07.6	Flight Instructor of the Year, and Specialist in in Sirius aircraft like the SR 20 and
1:11.7	SR22.
1:13.4	Now, last week we talked about when you can use GPS on non-GPS approaches, such as an ILS or a VOR approach.
1:19.8	So if you miss that episode, please check it out.
1:22.6	Plus, we have so much more coming up, and it all begins now.
1:46.6	From Plain and Pilot Magazine, a U.S. District Court judge has issued a temporary restraining order,
1:51.2	which is given the Santa Monica Municipal Airport, a little bit more breathing room.
1:56.9	Now, this was granted in response to an emergency application, and it orders a temporary halt to the runway.
1:58.6	They call it construction project.
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