The 25Zulu Show #12

September 11th had another successful, albeit interesting, broadcast of The 25Zulu Show.

In addition to several stories of our experiences on September 11th, 2001 (I was 14 miles from the Pentagon and scheduled to fly out of Dulles that day) we had some great guests and launched our Aviation Trivia contest with some great prizes.

We had been experiencing some internet issues at the studio earlier in the day, and those would end up eventually haunting us during the last 15 minutes of the show.

We were joined by two National Flight Instructors of the Year: Max Trescott (2008) and Rich Stowell (2006).

25Zulu Show listeners should be familiar with Rich Stowell as each show Rich provides us with a new Flying Tip.

Most aviators are also familiar with the name Max Trescott as he has become a well known instructor in the Glass Cockpit arena with several books and online training offerings.

Congratulations to all of the Trivia Winners and unfortuneatly we lost our connection when we started talking to Alan Armstrong and before we could give away the grand prize of the night, a Brightline Bags Flight Bag. (You can check out my review of the bag here.)

The show is now available for download from our Archives page or via iTunes.

Skycatcher Prototype Crashes

A prototype for Cessna’s entry into the LSA market, the Skycatcher, crashed during a routine test flight on Thursday September 18th.
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Operation Teacup

“Operation Teacup” has  put out a call for volunteer aircraft owners, flight instructors, and  pilots to assist with  emergency, hurricane relief flights, into Haiti, the Dominican Republic, The  Bahamas, Houston and  Galveston, Texas and other surrounding areas needing emergency relief help from the recent hurricanes.

Volunteers should visit the website at http://www.operation-teacup.scieron.com

Funny Aviation Video

I saw this posted out on StudentPilot.com by WesJones and gave it a look.

It’s a pretty funny video of a conversation between a captain and ATC.

I’m not sure how they do these animations as it looks as if they might have used real eyes and mouths.  Take a look for yourself and watch it here.

My “Perfect” Flight Bag

When I bought my original flight bag, I did what most pilots do when they purchase their first flight bag: bought a huge bag and threw everything I had aviation related into it. I basically ended up with heavy, and quite large, aviation locker.

Now that I’ve “matured” as a pilot, I’ve started my hunt for the perfect flight bag to replace my “locker”.
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VOR & HSI Simulators

We have recently added some great VOR and HSI Simulators for the enrolled students at Gold Seal’s Online Ground School.

These simulators are very interactive and you can setup a bunch of simulated situations in them to help you understand your VOR and HSI Instruments.

We will be adding additional training documents for these in the near future to help guide you through several scenarios.

If you haven’t already enrolled in the Ground School, make sure to take advantage of our current enrollment introductory specials.

The 25Zulu Show #11

On August 21st, The 25Zulu Show #11 was broadcast.

This show had the return of Cal Tax to talk about his Stearman and Stearman Fly-ins and Gil and Rodney from Cessnads2Oshkosh to talk about the mass arrivals of Cessnas at Oshkosh the past and future years.

The show is now available for download from our Archives page or via iTunes.

The 25Zulu Show #10

We had a huge 25Zulu Show on 8/7 discussing an apparent directive from the FAA in which they want controllers to report any infraction, no matter how small.

We were joined by AvWeb Editor Rus Niles and President of the National Air Traffic Controllers Association Patrick Forrey.  Aviation Attorney Alan Armstrong also joined us.

We had a tremendous turnout of live listeners and it quickly became our most downloaded show.  The show is now available for download from our Archives page or via iTunes.

BNL Singer Survives Accident

Sometimes we find out someone famous is a pilot in interesting ways.  I was reminded of this again last week.

I’ve been a big fan of Barenaked Ladies since before they were on the radio nationally.  I used to date a girl from Canada that went to High School with the BNL guys, so she turned me on to them back in 1994.

One of their singers, Ed Robertson, happens to also be a pilot.  He got his ticket back in 2005 and now owns a Cessna 206 Floatplane which is featured in a show on OLN called Ed’s Up.

On August 24th, Ed and three passengers survived some sort of crash in a wooded area near Bancroft, Ontario.  They apparently put it down in some trees and had to crawl out the window but did not have a scratch on them.

I’ve been trying to find out some more about his TV Show Ed’s Up as apparently his airplane plays a big part in the show. 

It looks to be something similar to Dirty Jobs, but not neccessarily as Dirty.  I was able to find a full episode where he flew to the states to become a Pit Crew member for a day.  It looks like a fun show and I hope it comes out on DVD soon as I would defineatly buy a copy.

I’d also like to try and get him on The 25 Zulu Show to have him talk about his adventures on Ed’s Up with his airplane.

Union Strikes at Boeing

Customers of Boeing will be waiting for their new planes a little while longer as 27,000 assembly line workers have walked off the job on Saturday after two days of talks broke down.

Workers in Seattle, Oregon and Kansas have walked off the job as of 12:01am on Saturday.

It appears that the strike will dealy delivery of the first of the 787 Dreamliner jets.

Of all the problems facing Aviation in recent years, this isn’t going to help.  You can read the whole story here.

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