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====== Uncontrolled Airspace Episode #117 "DKPROC" ======

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Dropping the wings off your airplane...Jack's "new leaf"...the Federal Lightning Round...and Jeb remembers a dear friend. All this and more on Uncontrolled Airspace, Episode #117 "DKPROC"

Recorded: Wednesday, January 14, 2009

[[http://jeburnside.com|Jeb Burnside]],

[[http://kitplanes.com|Dave Higdon]],

[[http://jackhodgson.com|Jack Hodgson]]

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==== Show Notes ====

• Pilot "voluntarily dropped the wings of the aircraft"

  • [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9f-04NqT5I|A story from Oz on YouTube Video]]

• Intros and Chit-Chat

  • Jack's "new leaf"

• Thanks to "The Denver Katana Pilots' Repertory Opera Company"

• Scud running, "the right way and wrong way"

  • [[http://uncontrolledairspace.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=592&p=2963" \l "p2967|UCAP Forum discussion]]

  • [[http://www.aviationsafetymagazine.com/|Aviation Safety Magazine]]

  • Permalink to [[http://www.aviationsafetymagazine.com/issues/29_2/features/9102-1.html|Scud Running Article]] (once it rotates off the front page of Aviation Safety)

• [[http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/01/14/flying.car/index.html|Skycar Expedition Launched]] - London to Timbuktu

  • [[http://www.roadabletimes.com/|Roadable Times]] - list of all known Flying Car/Roadable Aircraft designs, past and present

  • Invasion of the Podcycles!!

    • [[http://www.motorcyclepilot.com|MotoPod:]] Cargo pod and foldable motorcycle

• This is why GA - and airports - are so vital to small towns, and a license so useful... [[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/business/economy/10airports.html?_r=2&scp=4&sq=airlines&st=cse|NY Times story]]

• Federal Topics - Lightning Round!

  • Sanity of a sort: Anti-GA language removed from TARP

  • TSA's LASP "Unconstitutional" [[http://www.avweb.com/eletter/archives/bizav/1295-full.html" \l "199569|lawyer says]] - (as we've suggested)

  • EAA's [[http://www.eaa.org/news/2009/2009-01-08_threat.asp|Perfect Storm piece]] - synopsis of major issues...

    • AOPA's [[http://www.aopa.org/asn/|Airport Support Network]]

• Shout Outs

  • [[http://www.nbaa.org/news/pr/2009/20090114-006.php|John Winant's passing]] - first NBAA president: 1971-1986

  • Jeb's new neighbors

  • [[http://www.starhop.com|McAuliffe-Shepard Discovery Center]]

• More Federal stories not mentioned...

  • [[http://www.flightglobal.com/articles/2009/01/10/320861/dhs-watchdog-confirms-holster-problems-for-armed-pilots.html|DHS OIG Confirms:]] Holsters can cause accidental discharge of the firearms kind...

  • Here's a switch: GA and Commercial Av [[http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aaPH0ZLU6.zo&refer=home|acting in concert for NextGen in Stimulus Bill!]]

  • NBAA's list of LASP-Impacted Airports...look for yours [[http://www.nbaa.org/ops/security/programs/lasp/airports.pdf|here (pdf file)]]

• Guest Disclaimer: The Denver Katana Pilots' Repertory Opera Company, under the baton of Maestro Royce Ehrle

• UCAP Theme: “Sledgeflattener”, Thomas Dolby

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