SMAC063 – The ‘Best Of Stuck Mic AvCast’ First Edition

 

2014

HAPPY 2014!!! Episode 63 is in the house, woot woot.

We hope you all had a fantastic holiday season and the happiest of New Year festivities. The SMAC gang is nursing food comas and holiday hangovers, so we decided to share some highlights of our favorite episode bytes from the past two and a half years!

We’ll return on January 15th with a hot new show so saddle up cuz it’s podcast day!

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Pre-Flight

Announcements

  • Shout out to our super-cool-and-totally-awesome sponsor, Aviation Universe, for supporting this episode! Together we can do great things and we’re excited to see what’s next.

Cruise Flight

Show Notes

Again, this show is a compilation of our favorite bits and pieces from day 1 of the Stuck Mic AvCast. Here’s some of the things we’ll be reviewing today:

After Landing Checklist

~ Picks Of The Week ~

  • No Picks Of The Week were included in this ‘Best Of’ show

This Episode Is Sponsored By

AviationUniverse

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

Listen Below:

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!