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Podcast: Flight Safety Detectives
Episode: Examining General Aviation Safety Issues – Episode 196
Description: Greg Feith and John Goglia review recent general aviation safety issues. Lack of operation discipline is leading to avoidable plane damage insurance claims. Because the claims increase insurance rates, all general aviation pilots are paying a price.Multiple incidents are shared as examples: planes running over taxi lights, ground collisions with aircraft and other objects, engines started with tow bars attached. John and Greg see a lack operational discipline by general aviation and professional pilots as a root cause of these avoidable incidents.The issues are not limited to smaller general aviation aircraft. John mentions 2014...