Aviation News Talk – Pilot Stories, Safety Tips & General Aviation News
by Max Trescott | Aviation News Talk Network · 430 episodes
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General Aviation news, pilot tips for beginners & experts, interviews, listener questions answered, technical details on G1000 & Perspective glass cockpits & flying GPS approaches. 40 yrs experience flying general aviation aircraft. As an active flight instructor, I bring my daily experiences in the air to this show to help teach pilots and future pilots to fly safely. I'm a Platinum Cirrus CSIP instructor and work with people who are thinking about buying a new or used SR20 or SR22. Go to AviationNewsTalk.com for my contact information, or to click on Listener Questions, which lets you speak into your phone to leave a...
Latest episodes
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426 Gear-Up Landings & Gear Collapses: How to Prevent Them with Tom Turner + GA News
Gear-up landings are often dismissed as embarrassing pilot mistakes, but landing gear mishaps are far more common, complicated, and expensive than many pilots realize. In this epis…
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1 h 00
STEM Flights: How Volunteer Pilots Inspire Future Aviation Careers + GA News
In Episode 425 of Aviation News Talk, Max talks with retired Air Force General David Brubaker about STEM Flights, a nonprofit organization that pairs middle- and high-school studen…
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1 h 21
424 The Savvy Flight Instructor: Greg Brown on CFI Jobs, Getting Hired, and Finding Students + GA News
Max talks with Greg Brown about one of the most important—and often underestimated—roles in aviation: the flight instructor. Greg is one of aviation's most respected CFIs, writers,…
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57 min
423 How Pilots Can Avoid Turbulence and Find Smoother Air with SkyPath
Max talks with Maya Shpak, CEO of SkyPath, about how pilots can avoid turbulence and find smoother air by combining crowdsourced observations, aircraft data, and machine-learning p…
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46 min
N249CP King Air Crash: GPS Jamming, Dark Night, and a Fatal Visual Approach + GA News
Max talks about the fatal crash of Beech C90 King Air N249CP, an air ambulance flight that departed Roswell Air Center in New Mexico shortly before midnight on May 13, 2026. The ai…
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1 h 09
New Zealand Mountain Flying in a CTLS: Fiordland, Microlights, and Safety Lessons
Max talks with New Zealand pilot Keith Froude during a scenic flight in Keith's Flight Design CTLS over Fiordland, one of the most dramatic flying environments in the world. Depart…
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1 h 04
420 Cirrus SR22T CAPS Pull: N39VF Power Loss and Parachute Drag Survival
Max talks with Troy Duck and John Von Fange about their dramatic Cirrus SR22T CAPS parachute deployment in N39VF after a power loss near Chanute, Kansas. What began as a routine fl…
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54 min
LaGuardia Runway Collision: Why the Runway Lights Turned Off Before Impact + GA News
LaGuardia Runway Collision and the NTSB Preliminary Report Max talks about the fatal LaGuardia Airport runway collision involving Jazz Flight 646 and an ARFF fire truck responding…
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1 h 12
418 New Zealand Flying: Aero Clubs, Milford Sound, and Glowworm Caves + GA News
Max talks with Russell Ladbrook about a chance meeting in New Zealand that turned into one of the most delightful episodes of Aviation News Talk. Max was taking a glowworm cave tou…
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1 h 05
417 Cirrus SR22, Vision Jet and SR20 Design with Mike VanStaagen
Max talks with Mike VanStaagen about the design philosophy behind the Cirrus SR20, SR22, and SF50 Vision Jet, and how Cirrus rethought what pilots and passengers should experience…
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58 min
416 Airline Pilot Career Path: Part 61 vs Part 141, R-ATP & Getting Hired (Jason Blair)
Airline pilot career path roadmap with Jason Blair: Part 61 vs Part 141, R-ATP, and what matters most for getting hired. Max talks with Jason Blair about building an airline pilot…
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56 min
Log IFR Instrument Currency in an FAA-Approved Simulator + Redbird Factory Tour
Max talks with Josh Harnagel, COO of Redbird Flight, about a practical use-case that matters to almost every instrument pilot: logging IFR instrument currency and staying proficien…
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40 min
Epic E1000 N98FK Crash at Steamboat Springs: LNAV+V Advisory Glidepath Trap
An Epic E1000, N98FK, crashed near Steamboat Springs, Colorado during a night RNAV (GPS) approach. The lateral track was almost perfect, but the vertical profile was fatal: the air…
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53 min
413 Cirrus G3 Vision Jet: CPDLC Datalink + 6-Adult Cabin (Matt Bergwall) — AOPA President Job + GA News
Max talks with Matt Bergwall, Executive Director of the Vision Jet Product Line at Cirrus, about the just-announced Cirrus SF50 G3 Vision Jet—and before that, he offers an unusuall…
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1 h 12
Cirrus SR22T N17DT Stall Crash: Flaps Retracted on Low-Power Approach + GA News
Max talks with Rob Mark about the fatal crash of Cirrus SR22T N17DT near Shelbyville, Indiana, and why this accident is so instructive for any pilot who flies approaches at low alt…
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53 min
Vision Jet SF50 Landing Gear Collapse: Wrong Lever After Touchdown +GA News
Max talks with Rob Mark about a classic "simple mistake with big consequences" scenario: a pilot who possibly raised the landing gear handle instead of selecting flaps up during th…
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1 h 09
Cirrus SR22 Safety: Stabilized Approaches and Go-Around Accident Lessons
Max talks with Mark Waddell of the Cirrus Owner and Pilots Association (COPA) about how Cirrus pilots can reduce accidents by focusing on the places where the accident chain most o…
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41 min
Statesville Citation 550 Crash (Greg Biffle): New ADS-B Clue & Rain-Induced Illusions
Max talks with host Scott Hamilton of WBT, Charlotte's News Talk radio, about the Statesville, North Carolina Citation 550 crash that killed NASCAR driver Greg Biffle and six other…
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57 min
Aerobatic Training for Pilots: How Upset Recovery Prevents Loss of Control — Dr. Catherine Cavagnaro
Max talks with Dr. Catherine Cavagnaro about how aerobatic training builds safer, more confident pilots by reducing loss of control, improving stall and spin awareness, and shorten…
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54 min
Starting a Flight School with The Flight Academy
Max talks with John Fiscus, co-founder of The Flight Academy, and Director of Operations Jordan Ming to break down how one of the country's most respected Cirrus-focused training o…