Photo: Diamond Aircraft President Peter Maurer tries out the Cirrus Jet (mockup).
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Stay tuned to The Pilotcast for our AOPA Expo 2007 reports!

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Enjoy listening and learning as you eavesdrop on the Hangar Flying conversation with Certified Flight Instructors!

The CFIcast #6 CFI panel:

Theme Song: "Learn to Fly" by Josh Woodward

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Join the Hangar Flying as Pilot Kent, Pilot Dan, and Pilot Mike of The Pilotcast host "The Aviation Podcast Podapalooza" at EAA AirVenture 2007 in Oshkosh, WI on Friday July 27, 2007.

• Steven "Force" Tupper from Airspeed
• Tony Condon, CFI, from The CFIcast
• Jason Miller, CFI from The Finer Points, On the Flightline Productions and The CFIcast.
• Captain Len Robinson from The Flying Pilot
• Pilot Will Hawkins from The Student Pilot Podlog
• Jim Sweeney from Ultraflight Radio
• Dave, Jack, and Jeb from Uncontrolled Airspace

Topics discussed include:

• The Eclipse V-tailed single engine jet prototype, the Eclipse Concept Jet.
• The Cessna Light Sport Aircraft "The Skycatcher".
• The Cirrus Design Light Sport Aircraft
• The Terrafugia "Flying Car"
• Kate Bernard, CFI guides paraplegic student pilot Sean O'Donnell to a Light Sport Pilot certificate with the Able Flight organization.

Join in and listen to Kent and Dan in the cockpit of the Cessna 182 as they fly in to Oshkosh on the evening of Sunday, July 22. Edited for time

Kent delivers the early news update from Oshkosh:

• Eclipse surprises everyone by flying in a V-tailed single engine jet prototype, the Eclipse Concept Jet.
• Cessna shows the Cessna Light Sport Aircraft "The Skycatcher".
• Cirrus "unveils" the Cirrus Light Sport Aircraft but there's a catch.

Song: Fly Away to Summer Sun by Albert Forssell. Music on the Pilotcast is from the Podshow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at http://music.podshow.com

Pilotcast EXCLUSIVE Video report of the LANDING of a concept single engine jet from Eclipse at AirVenture Oshkosh 2007! See http://www.eclipseconceptjet.com

Correcting our first guess, it's not the Cirrus Jet, but it sure looks a like like the Cirrus Jet mockup and conceptual photos.

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.

Patrick Raycraft, Photojournalist for the Hartford Courant joins the hangar flying with Pilot Dan, Pilot Kent, and Pilot Mike to talk about the last Lt. Cdr. Kevin J. "Kojack" Davis of the U.S. Navy Blue Angels flight demonstration team who was lost in an accident during a Blue Angels demonstration on April 21. 2007 at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort in Beaufort, S.C. Pat flew with "Kojack" in 2006 in the two seat Blue Angel #7 F/A-18B in El Centro, California.

• "Out Of The Blue", editorial commentary about Lt. Cmdr. Kevin J. Davis by Patrick Raycraft in The Hartford Courant with a photo gallery with some photgraphs by Pat Raycraft.
• The The Pilotcast #33 Video Aviation Podcast of Pat Raycraft's ride in Blue Angel #7 piloted by Lt. Cdr. Kevin J. "Kojack" Davis from an in-cockpit camera.
  The Pilotcast #33 Aviation Video Podcast on YouTube with some comments from military pilots.
  The show ends with complete, unedited audio of Pat's flight with Lt. Cdr. Davis.
• The Pilotcast #33 Audio Aviation Podcast with guests Pat Raycraft and his friend Cdr. "Axel" Stephen "Boss" Foley, Blue Angels Commanding Officer and Blue Angel #1.
• The official U.S. Navy Blue Angels Flight Demonstration Team site

Kent gives an update on beginning flight training for his next goal.

01:29:30 - 41.3MB Recorded 2007.04.28

Note: You didn't miss any Pilotcast shows. We're still out of sequence. Pilotcast #53 and #55 will be published soon.

Songs:

• "Sailors Requiem" by John Miles from New York
• "star fly" by d fast from Finland

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Topics discussed by CFIcast Certified Flight Instructor panel:
• Teaching landings
• Teaching use of flaps
• How the recommendations in the Pilot's Operating Handbook (POH) came to be.
• When should you use partial flaps?>/li>
• The CFIs answer a question from CFIcast listener and instrument student, Bill from New York:
• Under IFR, how do you handle entering a holding pattern on a parallel entry?
• When is the phrase "Clearance on request used?"

• What can student do when they have a low time CFI?
• How do CFIs get experience?
• Is it good if the CFI has recent experience in getting your own pilot certificate?
• What would happen if instruction did not count as PIC time?
• One phenominal young and low time CFI who became a Blue Angel<.li>

The CFIcast #3 CFI panel:

• Your host: Rick Durden, CFI, Aviation lawyer and author of "The Pilot's Lounge" column on AvWeb.com and articles for AOPA Pilot and Aviation Safety, from Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Ron Levy, CFI, a P.I.C. 10 day course instructor from Maryland
• Chip Gibbons, CFI, aerobatic pilot from Arkansas
• Tony Condon, CFI, student and glider pilot & instructor from Ames, Iowa

Theme Song: "Learn to Fly" by Josh Woodward

Music on the CFIcast is from the Podshow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at http://music.podshow.com

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

Pilot Leslie and Pilot Grant, married pilots from the Chicago area, join the hangar flying with Pilot Kent and Pilot Mike.

• Flying a Diamond.
• Grant and Leslie's cross country flying adventures.
• Grant and Leslie's New Zealand flying vacation.
• Pilot Mike learns what carb ice does.
• Leslie's long road to earning her instrument rating.

01:17:31 - 35.8MB Recorded 2007.01.11

Note: You didn't miss any Pilotcast shows between #52 and #54. Pilotcast #53 will be published soon.

Music: Sky High by Nijol Sparkis
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01:17:31 - 35.8MB Recorded 2007.01.11

Note: You didn't miss any Pilotcast shows between #52 and #54. Pilotcast #53 will be published soon.

Music: Sky High by Nijol Sparkis
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Pilotcast show notes are at http://www.pilotcast.com

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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.

A hangar flying update with Pilot Dan, Pilot Kent, and Pilot Mike.

• Comments on the new Pilotcast videos from Oshkosh and Kent's skiplane trip.
• Dr. Silberman of the FAA's comments on SSRI and other medications. Pilots getting treatment and what the story about one astronaut shows us about the pressure and not being able to get help.
• • Herb Kelleher, CEO of Southwest Airlines, testifies in congress AGAINST the FAA user fees
  • Pilot and Senator James Inhofe of Oklahoma also testifies in congress against the FAA user fees
  • The User Fee threat response campaign by
    • AOPA
    • NBAA, the National Business Aviation Association.
    • EAA

00:22:12 - 10.5MB Recorded 2007.03.11

You can have a wonderful vacation by renting The Captain's Retreat vacation home on Martha's Vineyard

Note: You didn't miss any Pilotcast shows between #51 and #54. Pilotcast #52 and #53 will be published soon.

Pilotcast show notes are at http://www.pilotcast.com

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The Pilotcast pilots, Pilot Kent and Pilot Mike meet with more aviation products vendors outside and inside the exhibit halls at EAA AirVenture 2006 in Oshkosh, WI, USA in July 2006.

00:16:07 - 94.8MB Recorded 2006.07.27

Product vendors mentioned:
• eFLYBook from My Airplane.com
• LP Aero Plastics
• Zuluworks

This is a QuickTime format video that is compatible with the "video iPod" but can be played with the free Apple QuickTime player on most computers.

Pilotcast show notes are at http://www.pilotcast.com

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Pilot Mike gets an aircraft owner's perpective on electric aircraft engine preheat products in the exhibit halls at EAA AirVenture 2006 in Oshkosh, WI, USA in July 2006.

• Electric Reiff "Hot band" vs. plug heaters vs. oil sump heaters.
• Issues with installation and required approvals.
• Control systems and thermal switches.
• Tanis Aircraft Systems' unique engine dehumidifier prototype.
• Cabin heaters.
• Using a 26 lb. Honda generator when you don't have access to conventional power and the method for safely taking the gasoline-powered generator along in flight.

00:19:09 - 112.8MB Recorded 2006.07.28

• Reiff Preheat Systems
• Tanis Aircraft Services
• Honda Generators

This is a QuickTime format video that is compatible with the "video iPod" but can be played with the free Apple QuickTime player on most computers.

Pilotcast show notes are at http://www.pilotcast.com

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Pilot Kent, CFI Rick Durden of the CFICast and friends enjoy another Skiplane weekend in on the snow and in the air over Cadillac, Michigan.

• You can rent and get your seaplane rating in 65HP Piper J3 Cub or a 150HP Super Cub ski plane or seaplanes at Northwoods Aviation at KCAD in Cadillac, MI. In the summer they are equipped with floats.
• Pilot Kent's story of first his adventure in 2006 is on Pilotcast #026

00:07:18 - 45.1MB Recorded 2007.02.18

This is a QuickTime format video that is compatible with the "video iPod" but can be played with the free Apple QuickTime player on most computers.

Songs:

• "Cold as Ice" by Edwin Derricutt
• "Snow's No Fun at All" by the Danny Daughtridge Trio
  

Pilotcast show notes are at http://www.pilotcast.com

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Dr. Warren Silberman, D.O. MPH, director of the Airman Certification Branch of the FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI) chats with Pilot Mike at EAA AirVenture 2006 in Oshkosh, WI.

• The new online medical certificate application system
• The efforts to gain approval for medications including SSRIs and ADD and ADHD medications

00:06:10 - 35.8MB Recorded 2006.07.27

• FAA Civil Aerospace Medical Institute (CAMI)
• FAA Medical Certification

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Pilotcast show notes are at http://www.pilotcast.com

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Dr. Chien answers a question from a pilot with a Corneal Hole.

• Corneal hole
• Corneal infections
• Eye surgery
• Corneal transplants
• Medical Certification with monocular vision

00:04:18 - 3.1MB

Theme Song: "Once Upon a Summer Day" by The Monika Herzig Acoustic Project Music on the AMEcast is from the Podshow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at http://music.podshow.com

For shownotes and podcast subscription feed visit http://www.ame-cast.com

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CFIcast #2 - Cirrus Access, Type A students, Not getting the NOTAMS

Enjoy listening and learning as you eavesdrop on the Hangar Flying conversation with Certified Flight Instructors!

• The CFIs comment on the Cirrus Access program as described by Cirrus CEO Alan Klapmeier on Pilotcast #51
• What technique will work when teaching "Type A" students?
• When the flight service station doesn't give you the NOTAMs you need. Types of NOTAMs and how to ask for them.
• How to instruct and practice emergencies.
• The ICAO prohibits CFIs from simulating engine failures.
• Simulators are preferred.
• Can't pull the mixture.
• "Practicing bleeding."
• Doing realistic simulation of failures.

The CFIcast #2 CFI panel:

• Your host: Rick Durden, CFI, Aviation lawyer and author of "The Pilot's Lounge" column on AvWeb.com and articles for AOPA Pilot and Aviation Safety, from Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Ron Levy, CFI, a P.I.C. 10 day course instructor from Maryland
• Dr. Bruce Chien, M.D., CFI, Senior Aviation Medical Examiner from Peoria, Illinois from the The AMEcast Aviation Medicine podcast.
• Jason Miller, CFI, from Oakland, California from The Finer Points aviation podcast.
• Tony Condon, CFI, student and glider pilot from Ames, Iowa

Theme Song: "Learn to Fly" by Josh Woodward

Music on the CFIcast is from the Podshow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at http://music.podshow.com

Alan Klapmeier, CEO and Co-Founder of Cirrus Design joins the hangar flying with Pilot Dan, Pilot Kent and Pilot Mike.

Cirrus' plans to respond to accidents and improve safety for Cirrus Owner/Pilots.

Alan Klapmeier's letter to Cirrus Owners (PDF) urging a focus on safety.

• COPA - The Cirrus Owners and Pilots Association
• The Jet
• The Cirrus Access Program
• A new career path for instructors
• Avoiding traffic and airspace.
• Getting the word out that General Aviation is the not the problem of the airlines.
• Disengenuous arguments

01:11:50 - 33.1MB Recorded 2006.12.05

Song: "The New Year" by Love = Action. Music on the Pilotcast is from the Podshow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at http://music.podshow.com

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Dr. Chien answers a question from a student on medical certification with kidney or urethral stones.

When a pilot should self-certify and self-ground.

00:04:52 - 3.4MB

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Welcome to CFIcast #1!

Enjoy listening and learning as you eavesdrop on the Hangar Flying conversation with Certified Flight Instructors!

The CFIcast panel tells some "war stories" about their experiences with incidents and emergency while flying with students.

The CFIcast #1 CFI panel:

• Your host: Rick Durden, CFI, Aviation lawyer and author of "The Pilot's Lounge" column on AvWeb.com from Grand Rapids, Michigan
• Ron Levy, CFI, a P.I.C. 10 day course instructor from Maryland
• Jason Miller, CFI, from Oakland, California from The Finer Points aviation podcast.
• Chip Gibbons, CFI, Extra pilot and aerobatics instructor, from Rogers, Arkansas
• Tony Condon, CFI, student and glider pilot from Ames, Iowa

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Theme Song: "Learn to Fly" by Josh Woodward

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Dr. Chien answers email questions questions on medical certification with Hypertension and Deep Venous Thrombosus.

• Atenolol
• warfarin (Coumadin)

Theme Song: "Once Upon a Summer Day" by Monika Herzig Music on the AMEcast is from the Podshow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at http://music.podshow.com

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Dr. Chien answers an email inquiry from a businessman who has been taking Adderall which is commonly prescribed for Attention Deficit Disorder (ADD). The writer is an inactive private pilot who wants to actively fly. Dr. Chien has some advice and strong opinions on how to handle the diagnosis of ADD.

Theme Song: "Once Upon a Summer Day" by Monika Herzig Music on the AMEcast is from the Podshow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at http://music.podshow.com

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Introducing the AMEcast Aviation Medicine Podcast show with Senior Aviation Medical Examiner Dr. Bruce Chien, M.D.

How to secure your medical certification when you have a difficult medical issue or many issues to address. Advice for those seeking to fly as Sport Pilots.

Theme Song: "Once Upon a Summer Day" by Monika Herzig Music on the AMEcast is from the Podshow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at http://music.podshow.com

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Part 1: Dr. Bruce Chien joins the hangar flying with Pilot Mike and Pilot Dan. The FAA slaps docs over pilots on SSRIs.

The Knee Jerk reactions to the Cory Lidle accident and responses from AOPA President Phil Boyer and Pilot Ed Frederick.

Part 2: Pilot Mike and Pilot Kent talk about Kent's Oshkosh interviews with the Garmin regional sales manager and Walter Extra.

01:00:51 - 29.2MB Recorded 2006.11.30 & 2006.12.10

Song: "Santa is on the No Fly List" by Lee Harris & the Good Time Charlies. Music on the Pilotcast is from the Podshow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at http://music.podshow.com

Pilotcast show notes are at http://www.pilotcast.com

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