Uncontrolled Airspace Episode #116 "Like the Cat Thing"
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The boys get together in the hangar to talk about dropping things from airplanes… Dave's chat with the new head of AOPA… and a double off field landing of the week. All this and more on Uncontrolled Airspace, Episode #116 “Like the Cat Thing”
Recorded: Sunday, January 11, 2009
Jeb Burnside, Dave Higdon, Jack Hodgson
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Show Notes
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- Have you ever dropped anything from an airplane?
- How about a flour bomb? (video)
- How about Uncle Charlie? (dropping cremated remains from airplanes)
- Speaking of dropping from airplanes, do jumpers sometimes whack the plane on the way out?
- This guy did, and was unconscious all the way down!
- Intros and Chit-Chat
- MS Flight Sim Training Survey Take the survey
- PC-ATD FAA Circular 61-126
- XM Weather Outage for certain Garmin units
- Garmin blog post says “all better now…”
- OFLotW
- Cirrus demo flight requires forced landing
- Cirrus chute deployment saves the day
- More on DEN 737 crash Denver Post article
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- TSA Workers: "New rash of issues"
- Dave's impressions of AOPA's Craig Fuller
- Link to Dave's article once it's released?
- AOPA's "prez" page on Fuller
- Lynne Osmus named Acting FAA Administrator
- Shout Outs
- Jeb's latest Garmin 696 video, and this time we see more than his nose!
- Guest Disclaimer: Royce Ehrle
- UCAP Theme: “Sledgeflattener”, Thomas Dolby
