# Episode 79: Lost Comms

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Podcast: ["There I was..." An Aviation Podcast](https://stenobird.com/podcast/there-i-was-an-aviation-podcast-790927)
Published: 2025-01-14T15:19:00+00:00
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## Resource

As a newly minted private pilot, Sara Gagné takes her mother on a sunset flight around the Hawaiian island of Oahu. Not expecting any adverse issues during her very first flight with a passenger, Sara finds herself unable to establish radio communication. NOTE: We realized we omitted a key detail in this episode. When the guest discusses the remedy of shining a phone flashlight against the radio panel to make the display brighter, she is most likely referring to the panel having a faulty light sensor. Some avionics have an auto-dimming feature that uses a light sensor, which adjusts the brightness of the display to coincide with the ambient light level. We apologize for any confusion this may have caused.

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