237 Pop-up Request for IFR and Practice Instrument Approaches + GA News

237 Pop-up Request for IFR and Practice Instrument Approaches + GA News

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Summary
237 Max answers listener questions about making a pop-up request for IFR and for a practice instrument approach. Where do you find Center and Approach frequencies, what should you say on CTAF when going into a nontowered airport, and when can you legally log an instrument approach for currency purposes. And more. He also talks about the Karl brothers, who have founded airplane kit company DarkAero.

News Stories

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• Aviation insurance premiums to increase by up to 5% per year
• The Death Of An Airplane
• Training and Safety Tip: Empty a seat for high heat
• American Airlines’ regional carrier offers pilots triple pay
• Distracted pilot forgets to remove pitot tube cover
• VFR into IMC leads to crash for student pilot
• GA pilots drill in preparation for the big one
• Piper plucks apprentices from high school
• Woman charged with using stolen ID to steal plane, crashed
• Pilot and student robbed while calling for help after plane crash

Mentioned in the Show
DarkAero founded by the Karl brothers in 2017
Controller Handbook JO 7110.65Z
FAA InFO 15012 – Logging Instrument Approaches
Joshua McElhattan video relaying call to emergency aircraft
AC 61-142 Sharing Aircraft Operating Expenses

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