{"id":171641,"date":"2025-04-05T03:24:04","date_gmt":"2025-04-05T03:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/airline\/avtalk-episode-314-world-champion-gas-ballooning\/"},"modified":"2025-04-05T03:24:04","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T03:24:04","slug":"avtalk-episode-314-world-champion-gas-ballooning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=171641","title":{"rendered":"AvTalk Episode 314: World Champion Gas Ballooning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p><meta itemprop=\"name\" content=\"AvTalk Episode 314: World Champion Gas Ballooning\"\/><meta itemprop=\"uploadDate\" content=\"2025-04-04T13:35:48+02:00\"\/><meta itemprop=\"encodingFormat\" content=\"audio\/mpeg\"\/><meta itemprop=\"duration\" content=\"PT49M16S\"\/><meta itemprop=\"description\" content=\"On this episode of AvTalk, we learning all about long endurance gas balloons with a world record holder. 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We learn more about the erroneous TCAS alerts that plagued aircraft near DCA at the beginning of March and what the FAA is doing following a fist fight in the DCA air traffic control tower. Heathrow\u2019s chief continues to defend the airport\u2019s handling of the power outage two weeks ago. And Russian investigators release their final report on Aeroflot flight 1492, which suffered a hard landing and subsequent fire during a diversion back to Moscow in 2019.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Skip to 18:46\" href=\"https:\/\/www.flightradar24.com\/blog\/avtalk-podcast\/avtalk-314\/#\" onclick=\"return powerpress_stp(event);\" class=\"powerpress-skip-a\" data-pp-stp=\"1126\" data-pp-player=\"blubrryplayer-1\">18:46<\/a> What does it take to fly a gas balloon from Germany to Scotland? 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