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CFI Tony joins the hangar flying with Pilot Kent and Pilot Mike to talk about flying gliders and Kent's glider lesson with CFI Matt in a Blanik L-13 glider at KAMW in Ames, Iowa, USA. WAAS up with Garmin? One Six Right and unwanted airports. A Bo lands on a Bo. 00:50:14 - 23.1MB Recorded 2006.11.09 Pilotcast #049 Aviation Video Podcast is the video of Kent's lesson in flying the glider. CFI Tony pilots the Super Cub towplane. KAMW - Ames Municipal Airport - Ames, Iowa The GlideWiki entry on the Blanik L13 glider The new L13AC Blanik glider WAAS up with Garmin? The service bulletin on using the GNS 480 as the sole source of navigation under IFR. Garmin's announcement of another delay for the $1500 WAAS upgrade for the GNS 430 and GNS 530. Garmin's 2006.11.09 announcement of the WAAS certification for the new 430W/530W GPS and another promised date for the 430/530 WAAS upgrades. The Bonanza V tail twin sandwich in Los Alamos, NM. http://www.koat.com/news/10258626/deta

Writer, CFI and aviation lawyer Rick Durden and CFI and AME Dr. Bruce Chien, M.D. join the hangar flying on the Pilotcast with Pilot Dan and Pilot Mike with disussion about the worst ever exhibition of pilots blundering in to Oshkosh during Airventure 2006. Recorded Tuesday, October 24, 2006 - 01:03:31 - 29.1MB The new FAA Airworthiness Directive (AD) 2006-20-09 (pdf) on crankshafts in Lycoming engines overhauled after 1997. Rick Durden's Pilot's Lounge column, "Flying In To AirVenture -- It's Time To Slap Around The Bozos" on AvWeb.com An interesting "aircraft" for sale on eBay Tailwinds, Nancy Lynn Guy "Doc" Baldwin Song: "Strange Weather" by Flying Tom (Bill, Tom & Wilhelm) a MyVirtualBand collaboration Music on the Pilotcast is from the Podshow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at http://music.podshow.com Pilotcast show notes are at http://www.pilotcast.com Copyright © 2006 The Pilotcast

Pilotcast #047 Aviation Podcast - CFI Doug Stewart and Rinker Buck on the Cory Lidle Tragedy, Flying the Hudson Corridor, New Planes and New Pilots Recorded Sunday, October 15, 2006 - 01:19:03 - 36.4MB   Master CFI Doug Stewart and author Pilot Rinker Buck join the hangar flying on the Pilotcast with Pilot Dan, Pilot Kent, and Pilot Mike with a frank, spirited, and informative discussion about the possible causes of the tragic Cory Lidle accident in Manhattan in New York City.  Doug Stewart is THE expert instructor on flying the New York City Hudson River VFR corridor around Manhattan. Doug and Rinker discuss the multiple causes behind such accidents and what can be done to prevent them. Among the topics discussed are the dangers of pilots with overconfidence and hazardous mental attitudes who fly with complacency, with too much dependence on technology. Doug Stewart reveals what he teaches at his pilot seminars on Flying the Hudson River VFR Cooridor around Manhattan. Doug gives hi

Pilotcast #046 Aviation Podcast with U.K. Student Pilot Rick Recorded October 03, 2006 - 00:59:06 - 27.3MB Pilotcast listener Student Pilot Rick from London, U.K. joins the hangar flying with Pilot Dan and Pilot Mike to talk about flyig in Britain. Rick made a video for the Pilotcast of his flight with his flight instructor on a (literally) cross country navigation training flight from Redhill Aerodrome in Surrey, U.K. across the English Channel to Le Touquet Airport in France. They have crepes for lunch, visit the beach, and fly back in the haze. EGKR - Redhill Aerodrome Redhill Aerodrome site Satellite view on Google Maps U.K. Wikipedia entry LTQ/LFAT - Le Touquet-C����te d����Opale Airport Le Touquet Airport site (site requires flash) Satellite view on Google Maps France Pilot Mike reports on the plans for the Pilotcast insipired by his recent trip to the Podcast and Portable Media Expo in Ontario, CA. Mike was quoted in two stories from PPME in

Flyboys producer/director, Pilot Tony Bill and movie stunt Pilot Andrew King join the Hangar Flying with Pilot Dan and Pilot Kent. Dan visits Pilot Patty Wagstaff and Pilot Rinker Buck at the Nantucket Air Show Recorded on October 1, 2006 - 01:08:12 - 31.3MB Hangar Flying: Pilot Kent is on the road in Peru, IL. Pilot Dan and Pilot Kent talk to Pilot Tony Bill, actor and producer and director of the new thrilling. Flyboys movie. Tony flies a Marchetti The history of WWI aviation. The pilots and the planes. Reckless and dangerous flying was required! Why didn't they have parachutes? Flyboys the Movie The DVD is sure to be a pilot film shelf must have! How the movie was conceived, financed, and made Shot with Pangenesis 35MM digital cameras. Can you tell the real planes from those created with computer graphics (CG)? Wanna bet? Why the movie IS historically correct, in spite of the criticism. Some actual historical events were so unbelie

Hangar Flying with Pilot Dan, Pilot Kent, and Pilot Mike featuring Pilot Kent's exclusive interview with Christian Dries, CEO of Diamond Aircraft Recorded on September 14, 2006 - 00:44:19 - 20.4MB Hangar Flying: Pilot Kent is on the phone from Dexter, MN. Pilot Dan spent his first ever two week vacation working on his house on Martha's Vineyard. Dan will be at the Nantucket Island airshow September 30th and October 1st with The Blue Angels, Patty Wagstaff and Rinker Buck. Over the U.S. Labor Day weekend Kent returned to join "EdFred" at the reopened Prickett-Grooms Airfield in Sidnaw, MI discussed on Pilotcast #42 As he flew home Kent claimed 15 Wisconsin airports for the ConUS challenge discussed on Pilotcast #43. Door County, Wisconsin is popular destination in the Autumn for tourists to view the fall color show. Mike and Kent have a "friendly discussion" on the short field performance numbers of their high performance planes, the real world experience they've had, and why they may look at shor

Hangar Flying with Pilot Kent and Pilot Mike, joined by Pilot Nick and CFI Chip Recorded on September 1, 2006 - 01:14:55 - 34.4MB Hangar Flying: Pilot Kent and Pilot Mike are joined by Pilot Nick from New Mexico and CFI Chip from Arkansas. Nick and Chip have founded the Con US Challenge, which challenges pilots to land at every airport in the United States in one year. Nick tells how the idea came about from personal target to land at every airport in New Mexico. Chip built the great web site on the challenge at http://www.goflyamerica.org In the news: The new AIM specifically bans the phrase "any traffic in the area please advise."  Nick figured out why pilots can't agree on the phrase being a problem. A Cirrus passenger deploys the BRS parachute when the pilot is incapacitated saving three at Eagle Creek near Indianapolis. The crash of a Comair commuter jet talking off of the wrong runway at Lexington, KY. Chip tells about taking Pilot Kent up in his Extra for anoth

Hangar Flying with Pilot Dan, Pilot Mike, and Pilot Kent for our first post-Oshkosh show Recorded on August 8, 2006 - 01:09:30 - 37.3MB Hangar Flying: The crew have all made it back to their respective home base after a grueling week at Oshkosh. They saw a showing of the wonderful aviation movie, One Six Right, on a new high definition theatrical projection system. The movie tells the history of the Van Nuys Airport, but is really a take off point for any discussion of general aviation. Next, Kent does an interview with Alan Klapmeier, co-founder and president of Cirrus Design. There is also a link to the vidcast version of the interview available in the Show Links section. Afterwards, they engage in a bit of a rant about Cessna's vaporware showing at Oshkosh. Dan then talks about his experience of attending his first Oshkosh Airventure. The conversation shifts to a discussion of Very Light Jets, and how they could revolutionize corporate air travel and air taxi services. We end our Oshkosh chat with Da

The last Pilotcast report from the grounds of EAA Airventure 2006 Recorded on July 30, 2006 - 00:24:51 - 11.4MB Burt Rutan forum highlights Cessna finally gets it? New airplanes used to be affordable and why they aren't now. There is no true hybrid electric car Mike Melville's first SpaceShipOne flight into space. Why can't the FAA give Mike an Astronaut rating? A peek behind the scenes at the Pilotcast Pilotcast farewell from Oshkosh. Pilotcast show notes are at http://www.pilotcast.com Copyright � 2006 The Pilotcast

Pilotcast #040 Update 1 Supplemental - The in-flight recording of Pilot Kent's first flight into EAA Airventure on Sunday, July 23, 2006  01:00:43 27.85MBThis is the full recording mentioned in Pilotcast #040 Oshkosh update 1 2006.07.24. Fly along with Pilot Kent on his IFR flight across Lake Michigan after he enjoyed the seaplane flying in KCAD in Cadillac, MI.  Kent cancels IFR and flies the special NOTAMed Fisk VFR arrival to Oshkosh, joining compact line of planes of all types, through the tight and unusual landing pattern and parking in the camping area area south of runway 9-27. Song: "Wisconsin Line" by Geoffrey Wickham Music on the Pilotcast is from the Podshow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at http://music.podshow.com Pilotcast shownotes are at http://www.pilotcast.com Copyright © 2006 The Pilotcast

Live from EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2006, a sleep deprived Pilot Mike, Pilot Kent, and Pilot Dan host a Pilot Roundtable discussion Oshkosh Roundtable: Joining the crew are: CFI Jason Miller, host of the "Finer Points" PodCast Pilot Ron from Mountain View, CA, a member of the Apple Air Force Pilot William Foster, host of the "Pilot's Log" PodCast Mike starts off by telling the story of how, just over a year ago, the Pilotcast began. Then we move on to the real reason for the discussion, Oshkosh. Pilot Dan gives his impressions as the only one of the three who had not attended before this year. Everyone joins in to talk about all of the sites and sounds they experienced at the show. Three of the group flew into the Airventure, two from California, and they talked about their flights. This was the fourth long cross country that CFI Jason has flown, and it was done in the ZuluWorks DA-40. Pilot Kent had the shortest flight, flying his Cessna 182 from Cadillac, Michigan. For Pilot R

Oshkosh Update #2 from Pilot Dan and Pilot Mike The Pilotcast Roundtable session recording at EAA Airventure 2006 in Oshkosh will be Friday July 28 at 7 PM local Central time in the GAMA Pavilion, building #2 in the EAA Forums pavilion.   Dan's first day at Oshkosh. Dan experiences EAA AirVenture Oshoksoh for the first time. ...after he discovers that the Midwest United States is vast and flat. Dan's first AirVenture gives him a sampling of the weather it's famous for. Dan and Mike report on what they've gathered that will be part of future Pilotcast shows.   Shownotes are at http://www.pilotcast.com