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Episode #4 – Victoria Gets Her Commercial, Navigating Thunderstorms, & Ejection Seat Tests

Victoria returns from her 2 week long adventure to obtain her Commercial Pilot certificate to join us on Episode 4. Tune in to hear about her intensive flight training, how she contracted a flight instructor on a daily rate, and flew her bottom off to reach that Commercial ticket on her 7th day of training.

Other topics include:

1. Navigating thunderstorms
2. Thunderstorm avoidance
3. What to expect if you’ve flown into a thunderstorm
4. Learning about gust fronts
5. The danger of downdrafts
6. Windshear and low level windshear awareness
7. Co-hosts stories of thunderstorm encounters
8. What are you waiting for? Listen below!

But wait, there’s more! Listen in for our picks of the week where each of the co-hosts shares an aviation related product, service, and/or website that they’ve found to be interesting or helpful.

Rick – Martin-Baker Ejection Seat Test videos
Carl – Pappy Boyington Field, A Campaign to Honor a Hero DVD
Victoria – The Aviatrix Aerogram
Len – iPad2

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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