167 Fuel Exhaustion and Fuel Starvation Accidents + GA News

167 Fuel Exhaustion and Fuel Starvation Accidents + GA News

Summary167 Max talks about several recent fuel-related accidents and what the FAA's Risk Management Handbook and the Pilot's Handbook of Aeronautical Knowledge say pilots can do to avoid these kinds of accidents. Listener feedback includes an FAA legal opinion on how pilots can use a non-CFII to get instrument current in actual conditions. And a controller asks about how pilots get to the MEA without an ODP.

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Mentioned in the Show Fatal Fuel Exhaustion Accident Jackson, TNFuel exhaustion leads to forced landing in a marsh FAA Bulletin: Aircraft Interior Disinfection Airports with Nearby Outdoor Activities Worldwide list of Airport Restaurants

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