On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we look at the aviation effects of Hurricane Ian, check in on ICAO’s 41st assembly in Montreal, and try to understand how a rumor took off before we even knew it was on the runway. Hurricane Ian passes through Florida * Replay of live stream on how to track Hurricane Hunters and use weather layers on Flightradar24 Eviation’s Alice electric plane flies for the first time * See playback of the first flight FAA issues new Vertiport rules * Read the new rules and see the FAA’s preferred vertiport icon US DOT proposes new rules for airline pricing * The u-propose-requiring-airline-134929015.html">US DOT wants to make sure you know how much your flight will cost the first time you see the price. Hong Kong, Japan, Canada drop Covid restrictions * Hong Kong scraps hotel quarantine * Japan is open visa-free from October 11 * Canada dropping all restrictions from October 1 Copa Airlines 737 goes offroading * Copa Airlines 737 suffers runway excursion on landing in Panama City Swift (West Atlantic) 737 just wants a drink * Swift (West Atlantic) 737 runs off the end of the runway in Montpellier Virgin Atlantic joins SkyTeam * Virgin Atlantic (finally) joins SkyTeam British Airways and Qatar Airways further join themselves * British Airways and Qatar Airways did whatever this is New airlines, new orders * MSC Group is starting an airline, to be operated by Atlas Air * Xiamen Air order 40 A320neo aircraft A weird weekend of rumors * Over the weekend misleading photos and data from Flightradar24 were used to support rumors of a coup in China. We explain the bizarre situation.   Please click here for a transcript of this episode.