Tag: class bravo

SMAC035 – Lost Comms, Squawking 7600, Track Up Vs North Up

Todays show discussions involved what to do when losing radio communication in Class Bravo and Charlie airspace and the results of a survey involving the topic of Track Up vs North Up when flying and navigating with moving map displays.

Pre-Flight

First flying video of Rick’s bird dog flight with Paul Santopietro that brought us the interview in Episode 32a is NOW available on YouTube! Be sure to check that out and stay tuned for some additional videos to come from that fall flying day.

NBAA 65th Annual Meeting and Convention in Orlando is just finished up today, November 1st. Hopefully you had a chance to visit and check out everything they had to offer.

For our airshow lovers on the west coast we bring you the Jackie Cochran Airshow in Thermal, CA on November 3rd. On the east coast we bring you the Wings Over Homestead airshow in sunny Florida also on November 3rd and 4th featuring the US Air Force Thunderbirds.

A friend of the podcast is conducting a survey on GA Pilot Starts to help identify how we, as a pilot group, can improve and grow our beloved industry for the future. Please take a few minutes to submit your answers. The data is being used privately and no person or entity is profiting from the survey results.

For the What’s Great About Greenland segment today, Rick Felty shares “hiking”. Greenland offers amazing opportunities for hiking adventures to near, untouched areas of the country where no man (or woman) has gone before. But only in the summer months, so please, pretty please, don’t go hiking there in the winter…

Cruise Flight

After Landing Checklist

~ Picks of The Week ~

Victoria – book: Jungle Pilot and accompanying movie: End of the Spear

Carl – Max Trescott’s website

Len – Boost Oxygen portable O2 canister

Rick – Hint.fm Wind Map

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Episode #2 – Air France 447, Deep Stalls, & LiveATC.net

In Episode #2 we started out discussing the findings of the Air France 447 black box. Air France 447 disappeared over the Atlantic Ocean during a flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris on June 1, 2009 killing all on board. After years of extensive searching for the aircraft black boxes, they were recently found. Read the findings here – Black Box Reveals Last Minutes

Other podcast topics include:

1. Deep Stalls – described in depth by Carl Valeri
2. Using ForeFlight – for FAR Part 91, Part 121, and an overlooked special feature
3. Fly-cations – the joys of personal air travel
4. Ground Operations – taxiing, airport diagrams, parking. Calling ahead and viewing aerial images
5. FunPlacesToFly.com
6. Fly2Lunch.Com
7. Re-tracing the first scheduled airline flight
8. Surprises while flying around Boston’s Class Bravo airspace
9. SERMN Routes – a great tool for departing New York airspace during bad weather and delays

And now for our picks of the week – where each of the co-hosts shares an aviation product, service, or website they’ve used and found helpful.

Rick – LiveATC Air Radio
Carl – Flight Guide iEFB iOS app
Len – Aircraft Audio Patch Cable

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Also, a BIG shout out to Jim Cutler for our professional Voice Over work for the Stuck Mic AvCast intro and closing. Thank you, Jim!