This time for sure!

The Pilotcast has a NEW, PERMANENT Voicemail phone number, 312-233-2759. That's 312-BED2SKY....or something. (Let us know if you can make up a better sentence.)

GIVE THE PILOTCAST A CALL! 312-233-2759. Let us hear from you!

This time we know the number won't get reassigned or go away. We're paying for it. Thanks to all of our supporters for the financial help!

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You're invited to join the Pilotcast pilots and the aviation podcaster buddies at a LIVE podcast recording session, The Aviation Podcast-a-looza at EAA AirVenture 2007 in Oshkosh, WI. The party will be Friday July 27 at 5:30 PM in the GAMA Pavilion in the Forums plaza.

Join Pilot Kent, Pilot Dan, and Pilot Mike along with aviation podcast buddies CFI Jason Miller of The Finer Points, Steve Force of Airspeed Online, Captain Len of The Flying Pilot, the pilots of The Uncontrolled Airspace, Pilot Will of The Student Pilot Podlog and many more!

Join us for the Ultimate Pilotcast Hangar Flying session!

The Pilotcast will publish the session as soon as possible after the event.

If you couldn't make it to join Pilot Kent and Pilot Mike at the Gaston's Fly-in 2007 you can visit some sites below to relive the fun.

Jesse Angell put together a terrific video at http://www.jesseangell.com/gastons07.html. Great job, Jesse!

Joe Areeda created a Gaston's 2007 photo gallery at http://www.areeda.com/gallery/Gastons-IV.

Dean Davis made another great video of the flying fun over the Gaston's turf runway. http://www.gastonsflyin.com/video/dean_2007.wmv.

A great article on the 2006 annual Gaston's fly in Lakeview Arkansas from the April 2006 issue of Twin & Turbine magazine by our friend, T&T Editor Ken Ibold. Ken really captures the fun of folks from all over the U.S. gathering at a fun and beautiful resort with a grass airstrip to talk airplanes.
Content Copyright © 2007 Ken Ibold, Village Press, Inc. Redistributed with permission.

• Twin & Turbine magazine
• Contact the author Twin & Turbine Editor Ken Ibold email: kibold@villagepress.com
• The Gaston's Fly-in site
• Gaston's White River Resort, Lakeview, Arkansas

It has been confirmed that, sadly, the Blue Angel that crashed this weekend was Kevin "Kojack" Davis who Pat Raycraft flew with on our Blue Angels video.

RIP, "Kojack," indeed.

Pilotcast #33 Video

On YouTube: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uM9t_bbkeQc

We've found a great talk by Burt Rutan in audio and video forms at TED talks 2005 (Technology Entertainment Design).

Check it out and see why Burt is the most popular forum speaker at AirVenture in Oshkosh.

Link:  http://ted.com/tedtalks/tedtalksplayer.cfm?key=b_rutan

--Pilot Mike

I know that users with Internet Explorer don't see this page properly.  Believe it or not this message should be at the top of the page, not below  the left column. With not much chance to fix that we've decided that it's time to move.

I'm working on the new Pilotcast blog to replace this one.  (I can hear the cheers already.)

It's going to take a lot of time to fully flesh out, but then this one took way too much to time just posting each page of show notes.  In the long run we'll be better off with new one, which will be a standard Wordpress blog.

If you want to peek in through the peep hole visit:   http://www.pilotcast.com/wp

Keep in mind that it's being built, so you may get a an error once in a while.  If so please check back.

Let me know what you think. In particular if it looks bad to you and the problem isn't fixed shortly please let me know right away.

We'll be cutting over to the new blog A.S.A.P.

--Pilot Mike

We've added a Pilotcast tip jar for listeners who want to show support for the Pilotcast by dipping into the flying fund.

The tip jar is on the frame to the left.

For now you can make a one time donation.  We'll add a monthly subscription option so you can make a fixed donation per month.  We'll have exclusive benefits for subscribers.

The pilots of The Pilotcast appreciate your support.

The pilots of The Pilotcast have been contacted by media representatives looking for commentary on the tragic accident in New York City.

We'll be happy to make arrangements to talk but suggest for a more immediate response you should talk to the media relations team at AOPA - the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association at http://www.aopa.org You can call AOPA in Frederick, Maryland, USA 24 hours a day at +1 301-695-2162.

For facts and information on what GA - General Aviation is all about in America please see http://www.gaservingamerica.org

For information on airplanes flying the Hudson River VFR corridor around Manhattan Island in New York City

please listen to the detailed description from expert CFI - Certified Flight Instructor Doug Stewart on Pilotcast #009. Doug Stewart was CFI of the year in 2004. The Doug Stewart interview on flying the Hudson River VFR Corridor around Manhattan Island in New York starts at 32 minutes in. Doug created a DVD instructing pilots on flying the Hudson corridor. Doug Stewart's web site is http://www.dsflight.com

To contact us email:

pilotcast (AT) gmail.com

--The Pilots of The Pilotcast

 

This is an AMAZING behind the scenes documentary visit with Buck, one of the stunt pilots on the Flyboys movie.

What those poor guys went through.

--Pilot Mike

P.S. To see more Pilotcast video choices visit the Pilotcast group on YouTube at http://youtube.com/pilotcast

As you may have heard, we were concerned that not every Pilotcast subscriber would want to receive the video casts automatically, either because they will be larger files, or they don't a have video capable player.

We have the separate audio-only and video-only feeds working. If you want to get both new audio and video Pilotcast shows, you don't need to change a thing!

If you do not want your podcatcher to automatically download the videos, you'll need to change the feed URL for the Pilotcast. For audio only the feed is http://pilotcast.com/rss/audio

If for some reason you want only the video shows, the feed is http://pilotcast.com/rss/video (Hmmmm. I wonder if that works on a newer TiVo? Dan???)

The existing feed, which is http://pilotcast.com/rss will have both types of shows.

You can subscribe to more than one feed if you want separate the show types.

In iTunes, you should copy and paste the URLs above into the window under Advanced->Subscribe to Podcast I'll add some one click subscribe buttons on http://www.pilotcast.com soon.

If you didn't know, iTunes and other podcatchers are capable of playing Quicktime video files, even if your portable player can't. You may want to try viewing a video show before you change feeds.

If you have any trouble with this please let us know.

--Pilot Mike

We've created the Pilotcast forums at http://pilotcast.com/forums

We hope that it develops into a fun, active and informative community of Pilotcast listeners.

Please stop by, request an account and say hello!

We'll be fleshing it out as time allows so please bear with us.

--Pilot Mike 

"The Podfather" "Pilot Adam" Curry has posted another great flying adventure on the Daily Source Code #370

Join "Pilot Adam" as he flies the local area around Fairoaks Airport near Guildford, UK.

From The N277DS, in and around Guildford, UK A very different type of soundseeing tour of the Guildford area on a short local flight (edited for your listening pleasure). We also find out how very important those pre-take-off checks are!

Adam said that he's gotten some complaints about the show being boring, but it's GREAT for us pilots.

Here are some of Adam's pictures on the engine rebuild and new interior on Adam's Cessna 182RG, N277DS.

Download the DSC #370 .mp3 directly here

Caution: Audio contains Explicit language.

If you are going to watch that Bugs Bunny cartoon, also check out this classic Betty Boop cartoon with Cab Calloway's "Minnie the Moocher" on "The Cult of UHF" also viewable from the Internet Archive.

Note how the "ghost walrus" completely duplicates the dance moves of Cab Calloway at the beginning. This was hand drawn, folks. There was no motion capture, unless maybe they traced the film.

--Pilot Mike

Here's a gift suggestion, although you may have to check to see if you can get delivery in time for the holidays: O'Reilly's "Podcasting Pocket Guide." Its official publication date is January 2006.

It looks like a good guide for podcast listeners. If you want to know how to get the most out of podcasts like The Pilotcast and how to get podcasts easier, check this book out. O'Reilly books are consistently great.

The Pilotcast has a Frappr map! Stop by, "put in a pin," and tell us where you are!

There is a link to The Pilotcast Frappr map on the Frappr icon on the left of the page.

The map is displayed on the bottom of the main blog page.

Derek Colanduno of the Skepticality podcast was suddenly stricken with bleeding into his brain mere hours after Skepticality was featured in Steve Jobs' presentation of iTunes version 5. Derek is currently in the hospital in a drug-induced coma.

The announcement of the sad news by Derek's podcast partner, Swoopy is on the Skepticality podcast and the Skepticality forum.

The Pilotcast sends a best wishes for a speedy recovery to Derek. Our thoughts are with Derek, Derek's wife and Swoopy.