Episode Details

132 Getting Pilots To Slow Down to Reduce Risk and Improve Performance + GA News

Your Cirrus Specialist. Call me if you're thinking of buying a new Cirrus SR20 or SR22. Call 1-650-967-2500 for Cirrus purchase and training assistance, or to take my online seminar: So You Want to Fly or Buy a Cirrus.

Please help support the show with a donation via PayPal or Patreon.

Send us an email

If you have a question you'd like answered on the show, let listeners hear you ask the question, by recording your listener question using your phone.

Summary 132 Max tells stories about pilots who made all kinds of mistakes by rushing. He talks about the many bumps his gotten during preflight. He also discusses poor checklist habits and how skipping one checklist item led to the destruction of a new $900,000. He also talks about how rushing radio communications leads to stepping on other pilot transmissions and inaccurate position reports.

News Stories

• EAA to Give Free Admission to Youth at AirVenture
• Mooney Reopens Kerrville Factory
• BIPARTISAN BILL WOULD SPUR TRANSPORTATION CAREERS
• World's First Electric Race Plane Unveiled at Dubai Airshow
• Pilots Report Bogus Landing Fee Charges Based On ADS-B Data
• Pilot is rescued after his plane crashes and gets tangled in power lines
• Alaska pilot convicted of lying to investigators after crash
• Border jumper tossed bags out of plane before arrest at B.C. airport
• AOPA ANNOUNCES 2020 FLY-IN LOCATIONS
• GA AIDS MIGRANT FARMING COMMUNITIES IN RURAL MEXICO

Mentioned in the ShowMission Flight Mission Flight YouTube Video Flying Magazine: Slow Down Your Flying How (and why) Lufthansa trains its pilots in Phoenix, Arizona A Year Of Stewardship – Managing A Flying Club Airplane Caleb Carr, 25, Cofounded A Company To Help Stabilize Helicopter Baskets

Listen Now