EP184 - Information Whiskey: Event Events vs. Non-Event Events

About this episode

The episode discusses various aviation topics, listener feedback, and reflections on tragedy in aviation.

Brian is hiding from CMA Fest, Ben is back from the British Virgin Islands, and Ted has finally sprung the Egg from a two-month annual. Time for an Information Whiskey episode. Brian gets back in the air after his exam binge with a visit to Full Stop Aviation at Union City, where he meets a 1,000 horsepower Reno racer, then executes a strategic family airstrike to the Virginia mountains and reports that Lucy's autopilot vertical hold now sounds like logging into America Online before giving up entirely. Listener feedback from Chris H. sparks a debate on whether heavy dual time before the private checkride is a red flag or just life happening. Community accomplishments include a PIN code for the DC FRZ, a 9,000 foot density altitude wake turbulence encounter, ten Young Eagles in one day, an LSRM-I sign-off, and fresh grief for everyone hand jamming a Garmin 430 in actual. Then things go deeper. Brian unpacks his new video "Trip. Fall. Succeed." and the photograph he took of a family at Huntsville Executive just two days before they were lost in the Montana Aztec accident. It's a thoughtful look at how aviation talks about tragedy, and how Ron Horton's challenge to become…

People in this episode

Host: Brian

Topics covered

• aviation events
• listener feedback
• community accomplishments
• aviation tragedy
• pilot training
• non-event events

Keywords

• aviation
• CMA Fest
• listener feedback
• community accomplishments
• pilot training
• tragedy
• non-event events

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Full Stop Aviation, Garmin

Places: British Virgin Islands, Virginia, Montana

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