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SMAC069 – Goodbye Len Costa and Three Places To Land In Your Lifetime.

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We’re wishing Len blue skies this episode. He’s hanging up his captain’s hat and setting off on a worldwide adventure. Help us say farewell. Also, do you have an aviation dream destination? The SMAC gang shares their favorites.

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Sun ’n Fun!
April 1-6, 2014
www.sun-n-fun.org

50 year anniversary of first female Around-the-World flight!
38Charlie.com, twitter.com/fly38charlie

Congratulations to Andrew Blanchard! He’s a student in Purdue University’s aviation program and has passed three check rides in just four months! Great job, Andrew!

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  • Len’s moving on
  • Len and his girlfriend will embark on an adventure across the world!
    TrekAboutLife.com
  • Carl’s taking over the reins
  • Aviation Universe
  • Three airports you’d love to go to…

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SMAC068 – Women Can Fly Too, Fish Strikes, GPS Turbulence Detection

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We’ve got lots of aviation news to share in this edition of the Stuck Mic AvCast! Victoria’s back with us this week to let us know how Women of Aviation Worldwide Week 2014 is going. Join the (unusually named) SMAC gang for this episode!

Suppose we should get to it, eh?

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  • Wondering where we got our funny names in this episode? Check out the John Travolta Name Generator widget!
  • Carl will be representing the SMAC crew at SUN n FUN 2014. You can find him volunteering as an on-the-air personality broadcasting from the newly built deck of the SUN n FUN radio station. If you can’t be there in person you can always tune in live online through LiveATC.net/snfradio.
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SMAC067 – Forced Landings Gone Bad & Tips For Not Landing At The Wrong Airport

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And we’re back with episode 67 of your beloved Stuck Mic AvCast!

Recently in New Zealand, a pilot made a forced landing on a beach after experiencing an engine failure in flight. Once safely on the ground it was determined (details sketchy) that the engine was once again operational. A takeoff was attempted which led to the aircraft impacting the water and damaging the aircraft. Fortunately, both the pilot and passenger were unharmed. And we discuss some of the considerations you evaluate if you were to encounter similar circumstances.

Speaking of landings… With all the US news about airplanes landing at the wrong airports, we discuss some of our personal tips and tricks that we use every day to help minimize this risk and help identify your correct airport and runway. You’ll even hear about which co-host’s nearly landed at the wrong airport and how they were alerted of the error in progress.

So let’s get to it, shall we?

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  • Women of Aviation Worldwide Week is just around the corner. From March 3rd to March 9th, this week celebrates women and their accomplishments in aviation as well as exposing more women to the love of flight. Our very own Victoria Zajko is hard at work as always and we wish her a successful event this year.
  • From CNN we bring you an article on the 14 Best Aviation Museums around the world. Turns out we’ve been a quite a few of them and look forward to checking out some new ones in our travels.
  • Also coming up this month is the March Field Airfest at March Air Reserve Base in California. This 2-day event on March 22nd and 23rd will feature the usual suspects of air shows, static aircraft displays, and other attractions. This years notable performers are the US Navy Blue Angles. If you’ve never seen them before then you better make it a point to! The performance is simply mind-boggling with the high speed, close proximity maneuvers, that will dazzle your eyes. Check it out.
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SMAC066 – How To Build An Instrument Approach With Russ Roslewski

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Thanks for tuning in to episode 66 of the Stuck Mic AvCast! Today, we’ve got special guest Russ Roslewski who used to work at FAA AeroNav Products designing instrument procedures. He’s got a ton of knowledge about how procedures come about.

Russ sat down with us to talk about all kinds of aspects of instrument approaches from how they’re designed to keep airplanes (and pilots!) safe and what the future of instrument approaches could be. Sit back and hit that play button to learn more!

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  • Florida Ice Cream Festival – Enjoy a decadent day of delicious treats on the grounds of SUN n FUN’s Lakeland Linder Airport in Florida. On April 12th and April 13th you can enjoy entertainment and eating contests and see World Ice Cream Eater attempt to out the 2013 record of 14 1/2 pints in 6 minutes! Holy crap I have a stomach ache just thinking about that…
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