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It's busy in the virtual hangar this week. Long distance flights... another GPS based next-gen system... a sad recap of the Colgan Air tragedy... Aviation Furniture... and seven days of podcasts. All this and more on Uncontrolled Airspace, Episode #135 "Seven Days"

Recorded: Sunday, May 17, 2009

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

[[http://davehigdon.biz|Dave Higdon]],

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

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===== Show Notes =====

• Intros and Chit-Chat

• Ferry Pilots

  • [[http://philip.greenspun.com/|Philip Greenspun]]

  • Hans??

  • Bill??

• Furniture and decor made from airframe components

  • [[http://www.interflightstudio.com/|Interflight Studio]]

  • [[http://www.motoart.com/|Motoart]]

• Seven Days of UCAP

• Inside [[http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/135/stick-the-landing.html|GBAS]], Honeywell's GPS-based Airplane Landing System

• Where's there a Will, there's a Wing...

  • Maine 14-year-old [[http://www.sunjournal.com/story/315617-3/OxfordHills/Dreamstakewing/|building Gramp's plane project,]] a [[http://www.ragwing.net|Ragwing]]

• Passenger [[http://www.wired.com/autopia/2009/05/airman-spots-jetliners-fuel-leak-at-35000-feet/|spots fuel leak, declares an Emergency]]

• KSFM [[http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=acd5kzn6prsf_13cwr3fwd3|now has MoGas available on field]]

• Jeb's [[http://docs.google.com/Doc?id=acd5kzn6prsf_12d9zhk4c9|"Hornet's Nest" commentary]]

• Colgan Air crash hearings

  • Cockpit transcripts are pretty damning...

  • NTSB's [[http://www.ntsb.gov/events/2009/Buffalo-NY/AnimationDescription.htm|Colgan 3407 animation]]

  • Lacking any other explanation, a failure of basic airmanship?

• Shout Outs

  • Listener "falcon124" says [[http://blog.flymefriendly.com/2009/05/lifes-better-inverted/|"Life's Better Inverted!"]]

  • Congrats to [[http://airspeedonline.blogspot.com|Stephen Force]] for adding Seaplane to his ratings

    *...and for generally having way too much fun with aviation!

  • The "TSA Stands For..." [[http://uncontrolledairspace.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=801|Forum discussion started by Dave]]

• Guest Disclaimer:

• UCAP Theme: “Sledgeflattener”, Thomas Dolby

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