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Navigating Special Use Airspace: Stuck Mic AvCast 243. Welcome to the show about learning to fly, living to fly, and loving to fly. Today we discuss flying around and through special use airspace.
Preflight Checklist:
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News And Announcements:
Congratulations Jonathan Mast and Skeeter Moreno on obtaining their commercial pilot certificate.
Congratulations Justin Gentle and Ashley Tharp on their commercial seaplane pilot certificate.
Cruise Flight (Talking Points):
- What is Special Use Airspace?
- How to remember – MCPRAWN (the Scottish shrimp) Tom.
- What Special Use Airspace do we commonly encounter?
- Carl – Avon Park MOA and MacDill Air Force Base.
- Bill – Restricted Areas near Pax, Prohibited around DC.
- Navigating Special Use Airspace. – don’t cut it close!
- Prohibited Areas.
- Restricted Areas.
- Warning Areas.
- Controlled Firing Areas.
- MOA and ATCAA, what is an ATCAA?
- Alert areas.
- Bill – MTRs – VR, and IR (connects to Safety Corner for the SRQ collision)
- How do you determine the Status of SUA? Special Use Airspace & Air Traffic Control Assigned Airspace
- Where you can find more information. (Foreflight Profile View is great)
- Safety corner:
Sarasota collision: formation flight of F-16s crashes into a Cessna 172 in 2000
Moncks Corner SC collision: NTSB report on F-16 vs. Cessna 150
Oklahoma AT402 and T37: https://www.ntsb.gov/_layouts/ntsb.aviation/brief2.aspx?ev_id=20050126X00109&ntsbno=CHI05FA055B&akey=2
F4 Phantom and BE55:
After Landing Checklist:
Picks Of The Week:
Carl – Piper Owner Society – https://piperowner.org
Bill – The Concise Guide to IFR – https://books.apple.com/us/book/the-new-concise-guide-to-ifr/id1372977373 (Also C172, DA40, and DA42!)
Victoria – SAFE CFI Insurance Program: https://youtu.be/enpVTEZ30xo
Sean – New edition of the Aviation Instructor’s Handbook is out! https://www.faa.gov/regulations_policies/handbooks_manuals/aviation/aviation_instructors_handbook/
Russ – The Lost Airman: A True Story of Escape from Nazi Occupied France
Tom – https://sua.faa.gov/sua/siteFrame.app
Links Mentioned In This Podcast:
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https://www.faa.gov/air_traffic/publications/atpubs/aim_html/chap3_section_4.html
MCPRAWN (the Scottish shrimp) – http://www.scottsasha.com/aviation/acronyms.html
