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SMAC078 Obtaining Your Instrument Rating

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Everyone is here tonight except for Sean, starting the discussion with airplane shaped foods.

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Victoria kicks us off with a discussion of getting her Instrument Flight Rating and keeping your rating. This leads into a discussion of best practices for training, and how to handle communicating with the tower and keeping track of information. We also discusses Automation Management and the danger of over-relying on automated systems.

Carl brings up a situation where a friend of his flew an aircraft where she was the Captain and her sister was the Co-Pilot, which may be a first in aviation history. Very few people seem to know that there are female pilots in the airlines, and automatically assume that a man always does the flying.

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~Picks of the Week~

Eric: Polk State College is about to become the first state institution in Florida to offer a four year degree in aviation.

Victoria: Bring Fido Web site to find pet friendly places to stay when you are flying to your next $100 hamburger!

Rick: First Air Force One The story of the first plane to be called Air Force One, which is the only plane to use that call sign and not be preserved in a museum or other other collection.

Carl: Aviation: The Invisible Highway This is a new movie coming out next year about flying and what it means to so many people.

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SMAC077 Regaining your Currency And A Surprise Guest

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We have a surprise guest host this week! Also this week is the AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

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  • This week’s main discussion is on getting current in single engine after a long hiatus.
  • Practice techniques to keep current or “knock the rust off”
  • Finding the time and money to afford practice
  • Len discusses the difficulties in keeping current when living in a foreign country
  • Differences in aviation and airlines in other parts of the world

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~Picks of the Week~

Eric: Gyronimo.com weight, balance, and performance planning done graphically

Victoria: Victoria is going to be a published author! She is having a children’s book published about Turbo the Flying Dog Check Turbo out on Facebook Instagram and Twitter

Rick: iOS and Android glider game Fsim Space Shuttle Simulator

Sean: Ageless Aviation Dreams

Len: Dynon Avionics Video to the Cockpit

Carl: Bahamas Habitat

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SMAC076 What We Can Learn from Asiana Flight 214

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The crew is here along with special guest Bill English, Lead Accident Investigator on Asiana Flight 214.

Mr. English is an Investigator-in-Charge for the Major Investigations Division for the National Transportation Safety Board headquartered in Washington, D.C. Mr. English also worked for the FAA and has a background in navigation.

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This week’s main discussion is on the crash investigation of Asiana flight 214 in San Francisco in July 2013.

  • How the NTSB learns about an accident and how they assemble a team and get to the accident.
  • How the Major Investigation Division team members deal with the tragedy of these accidents themselves.
  • How the NTSB determines what pictures and information is what released and what is kept confidential.
  • How the NTSB sorts out all the data from an accident to determine the “probably cause” of an accident but also the recommendations the NTSB makes to the FAA, airlines, etc.
  • The different products, reports and information put out by the NTSB.
  • What’s in the investigator’s “go bag?”
  • Importance of standard operating procedures when calling out what the pilot is doing with the aircraft.
  • What we as general aviation pilots can learn from Asiana 214.
  • The importance of teaching and instruction even for experienced pilots.

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No picks this week, as we enjoy this wonderful interview of our very special guest.

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SMAC075 A first flight to Colombia, Flying the P2006T Tecnam and more.

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The crew is here except for Victoria who had to take the night off. It’s hot hot hot!!

Shout outs from Rick for Andrew Blanchard getting his CFI at Purdue and Sam Debartolo who passed his written for his Private and possibly did his long cross-country!

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Carl made his first flight to Medellin Colombia!

This weeks main discussion is on the Tecnam P-2006T

  • Eric got to fly the P-2006T by Tecnam
  • Twin engine, gas powered plane
  • Dual redundancy on everything
  • Light twin plane but with plenty of room like a cabin-class plane

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~Picks of the Week~

Rick: Aviationstatistics.org for learning about General Aviation accidents and how to learn from them.

Sean: Antarctica Flights: Flights that depart from Australia to give aerial tours of the Antarctic.

Carl: Vision of flight: Creating the next generation of people passionate about aviation.

Eric: AOPA Regional Fly-ins, which is a great organization for pilots to get together, talk, and learn. This summer they are having some great fly-ins where you can fly in, meet other pilots, and have a great time.

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