Hurricane Irma Evacuation Flight: Embry-Riddle CFI Veenen Udayan Interview

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🗓️ 15 September 2017

⏱️ 25 minutes

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Summary

On Christmas Day, 2006, a tornado destroyed more than 40 airplanes belonging to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. But this year, as Hurricane Irma began tracking toward Florida, the University was prepared with an evacuation plan for its aircraft. Veenen Udayan, an instructor pilot at Embry-Riddle in Daytona Beach, FL, was a team leader for moving Embry’s 63 aircraft out of the path of hurricane Irma, and relocating them at the Auburn University Airport, and at Atlantic Aviation at the Birmingham Airport, both in Alabama. In this interview, he talks about Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, and the flight planning and the advance coordination required with ATC to fit so many IFR aircraft into the system at one time. Click here for the listener survey. Tell us what flight planning tools you use when planning a longer flight. Please visit my new Patreon page and make a contribution to help me with my goal of improving the AviationNewsTalk.com website. You can Dictate a listener question from your phone and I’ll try to answer it on a future show, or send an email.

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0:00.0	Yeah, we had another evacuation last year with Hurricane Matthew, where we moved the planes again to Auburn.
0:09.1	That's our first time moving into Auburn, and we have a good relationship with them through previous connections.
0:15.4	And we moved again this year to Auburn.
0:17.5	So we learned from our first one, and we did have made a great evacuation
0:22.0	on both of them. Hello, and thank you for joining us on Aviation News Talk for a
0:26.2	newsmaker's edition, where we talk to people who are making the news. All this week, we're talking
0:31.3	about Hurricane Harvey and Irma and how general aviation pilots are responding in various ways
0:36.8	to the storm.
0:45.3	And in a moment, we'll be sitting down with Venen Udayan, an instructor pilot at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, Florida,
0:52.8	who was a team leader for an evacuation flight to move Embry's 63 aircraft out of the path of Hurricane Irma and relocate them at Auburn University Airport
0:55.4	and at Atlantic Aviation at the Birmingham Airport, both in Alabama.
1:00.4	So start your engines because this Newsmakers edition starts now.
1:04.7	Thank you. Welcome to Aviation News Talk, where we talk about everything related to general aviation.
1:25.6	I'm Max Truscott, and you probably know by now that for this
1:28.5	week, we've ditched our usual weekly format in which we share pilot safety tips and general aviation
1:33.8	news from around the world. And because of hurricanes Harvey and Irma, we're releasing our shows
1:39.0	more frequently and we're focusing on how general aviation pilots are responding to these disasters.
1:44.8	Earlier in the week, we had shows about Operation AirDrop, which flew a quarter million pounds of
1:49.5	supplies into 32 Texas airports. And yesterday we spoke with Stan Brock, the founder of remote
1:55.9	area medical, which is gearing up to fly relief supplies into the Caribbean.
2:05.6	Now, earlier today, I talked with Venen Udayan about an evacuation of a different type,
2:10.3	getting more than 60 airplanes out of harm's way before Irma struck.
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