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Weather Or Not : A Decision Making Process. Welcome to another exciting episode of Stuck Mic AvCast. We are back from Sun N Fun, discussing the decision making process when weather comes up when your flying. We also have some great picks of the week.
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Weather Or Not? A Decision Making Process.
Russ discusses his decision making process involved when flying to and from Sun N Fun through challenging weather.
We further discuss general weather decision making both for IFR and VFR flying.
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Picks Of The Week:
Carl – KitPlanes May 2018 Lance Hooley on the Cover
http://www.kitplanes.com/issues/35_5/
Russ – Commercial ACS – which apparently removes the requirement for a complex airplane for the checkride (but not the training) https://www.faa.gov/training_testing/testing/acs/media/commercial_airplane_acs.pdf
Rick – absolute rc simulator
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/Absolute-RC-Simulator-Full-Version/id842358146?mt=8
Tom – Fore Flight Scout for ABS weather and traffic
https://flywithscout.com/
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Ref: SMAC177 Weather Or Not : A Decision Making Process. You guys were talking about weather yet no mention of contacting Flight Service when you were discussing what to do when your gee whiz wx gear craps out. Wow! Is it any wonder that by next summer there’ll only be 2 Flight Service stations left open in the lower 48? Raleigh Flight Service is closing in early July, the last of the original stations and Prescott is scheduled to close in the summer of 2019. After the last 2 are gone I can hear pilots complaining that they wish there was a service where you can call on the radio or phone to get wx updates or help with a flight plan you can’t file for some reason or another. With all the pilots who thank those guys at Flight Service for helping them out, it seems they do nothing to make sure Flight Service will still be around in the future. I guess they figure it’ll always be there. I can see withing 5 years or maybe sooner there will be no more Flight Service available n the lower 48.
Thanks for the feedback. Stay tuned to a future episode where we discuss tactical vs strategic planning. Additionally we will discuss the future of flight planning and Flight Service Stations.
Enjoyed the episode and the stories. Russ certainly seems to have bad luck w/ weather and SNF! If he had left a day early I wouldn’t have gotten to meet him Saturday morning. I really enjoyed all the episodes from SNF as I was was only there for a day and a half. I didn’t get to visit all the vendors and your interviews helped highlight new products as well as getting some back story and info. Thanks for the huge effort and time!
BTW, there seemed to be some audio issues with this episode. I heard a bit of pre-echo probably from the guys on Skype. I’ve not heard it before.
Thanks for the feedback Dan. I am glad you where able to meet Russ.
Carl.
P.S. We will look into the audio issue.
Hi Ben! It was great getting to meet you and the other listeners who came by the radio station. Glad you enjoyed the podcast episodes from the show – they were a lot of fun to make.
I do keep hoping for good weather – maybe next year!
Russ