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Announcing: Winners of The Pilot Report Birthday Bash Software Giveaway

The Pilot Report Birthday Bash software giveaway contest was a great success. Many of you signed up at our Facebook Page to enter this contest and I’m grateful for you sharing this with your friends and family.

To pick the winners of this software giveaway I entered the names of all the folks who’ve liked us on Facebook into a Random Line Picker. The names were then shuffled 10 times before outputting 21 names at random.

The names of those 21 lucky winners of the Double Dog Studios flying applications are:

Bob Albertson
Charles Reiche
Marty Lewandowski
Masoud Arabiyoun
Keith J. Jones
Andy Matthews
Jake Harris
Sina Rad
Russ Talbot
Joe Ward
Larry Overstreet
Harry Chinokoro
Jason Ensminger
John Ford
Antonios Petritidis
Colin Maitland
Todd McClamroch
George Opreff
Gary Ramsey
Carl Valeri
Stephen Ruby

If your name was on the above list simply send an email to ThePilotReport at gmail dot com with your name in the subject field and your Facebook URL in the body for verification purposes. Once your identity has been verified I will send you the promo code for your free application with instructions on how to redeem your gift.

To find your Facebook URL, login to Facebook, click “Profile” in the top right menu bar, once your profile finishes loading in your web browser, just copy the URL from the browser address bar and paste it into the body of your prize claim email.

These promo codes are only valid for 30 days so if I don’t receive your prize claim email before June 1 all unclaimed prizes will then be distributed at my discretion.

Thanks again for all your interest and support during our first year at ThePilotReport.com and here’s to another year together!

Clear Skies & Calm Winds,

Len @ ThePilotReport.com

Announcing: The Stuck Mic AvCast – An NEW Aviation Podcast

***Watch in Fabulous High Defintion***

I’m extremely proud to announce the launch of our very first aviation podcast episode over at StuckMicAvCast.com!

This new aviation podcast will be co-hosted by VIctoria Neuville, Rick Felty, and Carl Valeri.

VIctoria is a GA flying enthusiast working towards her commercial pilot certificate. She blogs over at toriaflies.blogspot.com.

Rick is also a GA flying enthusiast preparing to start his instrument training. He also creates amazing mulit-angled in-flight flying vides available on his YouTube channel.

Carl is an airline captain and a flight instructor. He blogs over at ExpertAviator.com where he writes about “Increasing your aviation knowledge one blog post at a time.” Carl is also featured on Fox news from time to time as an aviation expert.

And then there’s me, Len. If you don’t know who I am yet then let me give you the 2 cent tour. ThePilotReport.com is my website where I blog about aviation product reviews, demos, and share relevant aviation news. I’m also an airline first officer and a flight instructor.

With all the varying levels of flight experience and time logged amongst the 4 podcast co-hosts, I’m confident you’ll enjoy our bi-montly episodes which will include such things as:

– Flying techniques, some basic, some advanced
– Flight instruction discussions
– Technical aspects of flying from point A to B
– Group discussions on aviation products in the cockpit
– Virtual hangar flying
– Adventures from live events such as airshows
– And much, much more!

The podcast will be available soon via iTunes or you can listen directly from the website. This is an “enhanced podcast” which means there are images and website links embedded in the audio sessions that are viewable when listening through iTunes, iPad, iPhone, or iPod making the Stuck Mic AvCast interactive!

We’ll also include video episodes and other enhancements like downloadable PDF’s from time to time.

So get started listening today over at StuckMicAvCast.com! Don’t forget to Follow Us on Twitter and Like Us on Facebook to get all the episodes and updates as soon as they become available.

Clear Skies & Calm Winds,

Len @ ThePilotReport.com