Aviation News Talk – Pilot Stories, Safety Tips & General Aviation News 137 Kobe Bryant Crash, Special VFR, More IFR Challenges + GA News
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Summary137 Max talks about risks associated with flying Special VFR and offers guidelines who when not to do it and about regulations for Special VFR, for pilots and controllers. He's also talks about why Kobe Bryant's helicopter wasn't flying IFR when it crashed. He also talks about some recent IFR challenges flying a Cirrus Vision Jet on an arrival into Salt Lake and into Hawthorne, CA.
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