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228 3 Things You Don't Know about VFR into IMC Accidents + GA News

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Summary 228 Max talks with Rob Mark about VFR into IMC Accidents and a free online course available from AOPA's Air Safety Institute. These are the most common weather accidents, and 90% are fatal. They happen to even very high time pilots, and they're ten times more likely to occur at night. Pilots need a strategy for when this occurs to them, and they need to learn how to estimate flight visibility.

News Stories

• New VFR into IMC safety campaign launches
• Textron brings new upgrades to Cessna and Beechcraft
• Southwest slows pilot hiring on instructor shortfall
• Distracted pilot fails to extend landing gear
• Pilot hits tree while herding cattle
• Backyard landings in helicopter could land man in prison
• Helicopter pilot sentenced for forging license
• Crash pilot arrested on human smuggling charges
• Fake pilot case: trainee Air India copilot held
• Man arrested after climbing onto jet wing at Chicago's Midway

Mentioned in the Show AOPA ASI's VFR into IMC Avoidance and Escape course FBO Fees May Have Motivated VFR-into-IMC Accident Case Study: Chicago to NC flight VFR into IMC Accident Case Study: SR20 Indiana to DuPage flight Acc