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Episode #21 – Fly It Forward Recap, Planes-Trains-Automobiles, Alaskan Ski-Plane Adventures

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In this episode of the Stuck Mic AvCast, we talked about a quick recap of the Women Fly It Forward event back on March 10th, 2012. Carl was attending the Planes, Trains, & Automobiles event at Plant City Airport, Florida during recording so you’ll enjoy a fun airplane sound seeing tour as airplanes takeoff in the background. Then Len finally got to share his Super Cub Alaska bush flying adventure stories from Summer 2010 and Winter 2012. Special thanks of our sponsor, Keel & Curley Winery for lending us their hangar at Plant City!

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~ Picks Of The Week ~

Carl – AirVenture Flightops

Victoria – TJ Shembekar YouTube Videos

Rick – X-Plane Flight Simulator

Len – GoPro Propeller Artifacting Case Modification

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Episode #19 – Personal Pilot Limitations, Flying With A CFI, & First Impressions of Cirrus SR22

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This is Episode 19 of the Stuck Mic AvCast, an aviation podcast about Learning To Fly, Living to Fly, and Loving to Fly! Today’s show is all about Personal Pilot Limitations, Flying With A CFI, First Impressions of the Cirrus SR22, Single Pilot Resource Management, Red Tails the Movie, and more!

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This is the part of the show where we share our announcements. First on the list today is a congratulations to our very own Carl Valeri for his appointment under the Tampa, FL FSDO as an aviation safety representative! Great job, Carl, and thanks for your dedication to keeping general aviation pilots safer.

Second announcement is that Carl and Len of the Stuck Mic AvCast crew will be broadcasting LIVE on Sun N Fun radio Saturday, March 31st at 6:30PM Eastern or 2230 Zulu. You can tune into AM 1510 on your radio for those folks in the Florida area OR find us through the Sun N Fun radio streaming broadcast provided by our friends at LiveATC.net at LiveATC.net/snf! We’re working on some additional air time during the week long event so keep an eye on our Stuck Mic Twitter feed for more info.

And for our third and final announcement, over the last few episodes you’ve been hearing us talk about the Women Fly It Forward event our very own Victoria Neuville is hosting at the Frederick Municipal Airport, Frederick, MD. She’s excited to announce that registration had to close 3 weeks early due to the overwhelming reception and interest by local area women. Some 250 women are signed up to fly at this general aviation event on March 10, 2012 and we’ll be there volunteering and sharing the days events online. Congratulations to you Ms Neuville and your hard work to expose more women to the wonderful world of aviation! Join us for the LIVE video broadcast of Women Fly It Forward on Ustream.

Now onto the show notes…

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After Landing Checklist

~ Picks of The Week ~

Victoria – Single Pilot Resource Management

Rick – Zinio Digital Newsstand on iOS for aviation magazines

Len – Northern Companion portable aircraft engine preheater

Carl – Red Tails the Movie

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Episode #18 – Aircraft Accidents, Recurrent Training, & Pilot Proficiency

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Both Carl and Len are airline pilots and go through a great deal of recurrent flight and ground training each year. As an airline Captain, Carl has recurrent ground training once a year and recurrent simulator every six months. As an airline First Office, Len has has the same except his simulator training is only once every 12 months.

As general aviation pilots, we’re only required to have a flight review every 24 months. Do you think that’s safe? Do you think that’s enough to maintain your proficiency for your flight certificates? During this episode, we spent a great deal of time discussing recurrent pilot training, how to stay proficient, and sharing co-host methods for staying safe in their respective aircraft including some excellent reasons why recurrent training is not only important, but extremely beneficial.

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You may recall in a previous episode the announcement that Victoria was hosting a Women Fly it Forward event at the Frederick Municipal Airport, Frederick, MD KFDK on March 10th. This day is an opportunity for women of all ages to experience their very first airplane ride for FREE as a way to promote aviation to more women. Victoria is PROUD TO ANNOUNCE that ERA pilot Sarah Fraher of Flying Wild Alaska fame will be in attendance at Women Fly It Forward to help promote and share aviation with the ladies in attendance. Don’t miss this event on March 10th! Register today – seats are filling up fast.

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After Landing Checklist

~ Picks of The Week ~

Rick – Gene Benson Aviation

Victoria – US Wings Pilot Shop

Len – GoPro Hero 2 HD Video Camera. Camera capabilities: Glasair Demo Flight & Women Fly It Forward Promo example videos

Carl – Tailwinds Cafe

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3 Pilots, 2 Airplanes, 1 Camera – Behind The Scenes of Women Fly It Forward

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I woke up the other day to a text message from Victoria, one of my co-hosts on the Stuck Mic AvCast, asking me if I’d be available to film a promo video for her Women Fly It Forward event. Well I happen to love airplanes and making videos and hanging out at the airport so naturally I said yes.

The idea was to capture some footage of Victoria explaining the success of her 2011 event and inviting new participants to register for the 2012 event. It’s on March 10, 2012 by the way and just in case you don’t know, the goal of Women Fly It Forward is to introduce women to general aviation by giving them a FREE ride in a small plane. A worthy cause it would turn out as 185 women participated in 2011! Not bad for the first time.

That event won Frederick Municipal Airport, in Frederick, MD the “Most Female-Pilot-Friendly Airport Worldwide” award for 2011. A second and equally awesome accomplishment. Getting back to the promo video – we met at the airport over the weekend with airplanes, video cameras, and other film gear for what would turn out to be a chilly afternoon on the “set.” Having access to some airplanes we pulled the Cessna 172 out of the hangar for a nice back drop. We also did some filming in front of a Glasair but that didn’t make the cut in editing.

After freezing our butts off for 2 hours filming in the winter wind, we finally had all we needed and called it a wrap. Then it was off to warm up over dinner, dessert, and a live band.