Airline Pilot Guy - Aviation Podcast

In this episode: Blind pilots, no pilots, drone near collisions, x-wing fighters, and much more!

In this episode: An AeroCommander 500-B crashes at Midway, A Delta MD88 hits a flock of geese at Raleigh Durham Airport, Feds investigate several recent drone sitings near JFK, more feedback, including landing gear retraction, the ITCZ, reduced thrust takeoffs, and much more!

A Jazz flight slings its props, a Learjet crashes in Freeport, and update on SpaceShip Two, loads of great feedback, including wind shear, go-arounds, reduced thrust takeoffs.

Drone pilot attacked, USAF pilot offers aid to First Officer, Bonanza crash in Louisiana, big jet boo-boos, and more.

An A380 almost runs out of fuel, Japan Airlines Dreamliner suffers wingtip damage from firetruck, dog poop causes divert, tons of feedback including holding, TCAS, and more!

More near misses, hard landings, turbulence injuries, and more.

Pacific near miss? B-737 engine failure out of JFK, the latest on MH370, feedback about female pilots, cabin crew respect, hijacking, thunderstorms and more!

Drone near misses, turbulence, inflight icing, transponder codes, flying cars and more!

Spy planes, smoking bags, severe turbulence and the latest developments in the Malaysia 370 investigation.

Outlaw drones, near misses, and ways to endear your flight attendant. More news, and, of course, your feedback!

Stowaway teen survives 5+ hour flight to Maui, jet flies through huge swarm of bees, contract piloting, Inmarsat offers free tracking to airlines, Monarch Air pilot shares too much, UAV pilot prosecuted in UK, more news, feedback, and your questions!

Two Twittering errors in judgement, a man tries to open door in flight, the FAA completes ADS-B infrastructure, Malaysia 370 co-pilot attempts cell phone call, 34 hour flight, and more!

Cows, crosswinds, flaps, and phablets. What do they have in common? Nothing. Well, maybe not... they're all discussed on this episode! (And a lot more.)

The NTSB issued a Safety Alert last week reminding pilots to use vigilance when operating into the destination airport at night and when landing at an airport with others in close proximity. The Safety Alert outlines five measures pilots can take to avoid a wrong airport landing, and provides additional flight safety resources. Founded in 1948, World Airways recently announced the immediate cessation of all operations. World's parent company, Global Aviation Holdings, sited the inability to secure further funding from Cerberus, World’s first lien lender. As this episode is being recorded, more than three weeks has elapsed since the disappearance of Malaysia Flight 370. So far, not one shred of physical evidence of its supposed "crash" has materialized. That hasn't stopped the cable news channels from continuing their parade of "aviation experts," spending a majority of their broadcast hours talking endlessly about the disappearance. What did happen to the flight? In a nutshell, nobody knows. I went on a little bit of a rant in this episode. It's not the first time I've been irritated by WSJ columnist Holman Jenkins, who somewhat fashions himself an "aviation expert," apparently (well, why not? Everybody else in the world is). In his "piece" Someday, All Planes Will Be Drones, Jenkins drones on and on about how the skies would be safer with passenger flights being piloted, well, not piloted by humans. In fact, in his last paragraph, he states with utmost ignorance, "Passenger planes, once passengers realize the crew is mostly there to cause mistakes, will be fully automated even if a trained crew member is standing by to lend comfort." Mr. Jenkins, you are a fool. FEEDBACK/LINKS Nick Carson - Audio Feedback MLew in SLC - Instrument Rating Rotorcraft Owen - Build time in Alaska! Ravn - advice for future pilots Kevin - Great Lakes Air: So long, North Dakota Great Lake Air's long run in North Dakota will end Tim - ACME Beer! Dave from Toronto - Quiz? Vernon - Lost 777 Chad - CNN MH370 Matt Dolan - Runway Snow Removal Hideous FO Jake - MH370 Nick from OC - Commuting to Work Ken - Flight Data Recorder / Cockpit Voice Recorder query prompted by MH370 The Flight Data Recorder's Slow Evolution Wikipedia - Flight data recorder Chris - ATC Log from Malaysia MH370 Pilot Pip - Plane Safety Podcast Plane Safety Podcast (iTunes link) Anonymous - ATP Flight School in Phoenix Carlos - Feedback From PTUK Podcast Tiff - MD-80 talk on UCAP podcast UCAP350 "Zoom Zoom" Mike - Berkas and Airport Security Tim from Germany - CVR and FDR Video VIDEO Audible.com Trial Membership Offer - Get your free audio book today! Give me your review in iTunes! I'm "airlinepilotguy" on Facebook, and "airlinepilotguy" on Twitter. feedback@airlinepilotguy.com (304) 99-PILOT (304) 997-4568 airlinepilotguy.com ATC audio from http://LiveATC.net Intro/Outro music by Tim Brown, BrownHouseMedia, iStockphoto.com Copyright © AirlinePilotGuy 2013, All Rights Reserved

Malaysia 370 Update - Just when you thought the Malaysian government's Flight 370 investigation couldn't get worse, a recent announcement that "there is no unreasonable doubt that the airline went down in the ocean west of Perth" was met with resistance and criticism. At the time of this episode's recording, there is still no physical evidence of the supposed crash. A California man was sentenced to 14 years in a federal prison for pointing a laser at a Fresno police helicopter. I hope this will help send the message to others that intentionally aiming a laser at aircraft is not a prank, but a federal crime with very serious consequences. Canadian research firm Presage recently released a report examining go-arounds. “No other single decision can have such an impact on the industry accident rate.” FEEDBACK/LINKS Daytona 500 Fly-By.mp3 Tom Seagraves - Engine Run-Ups Nathan - Greetings from Kuwait Tim - Rims, KSNA Quiet Departures Nate from Cape Cod - Is Embry-Riddle a good option for getting flight time, ratings? Captain Bob - United DC-10 Crash Mike - Deadhead Flying- Do You Get Paid for That? Tony Kennedy - Defending RyanAir Mikell - Bad Pilot Experience! Aviation Safety Hotline Derek - UK Landmarks Justin - Atlanta Meet-ups? Stewart - ATP? Dominic - Personal Support Animals Brendan - Languages, Google Translate Scott - Pilot Shortage? I'm Not Seeing It! Mike - Holding Patterns Capt. Kool - CAP Joins Search for MH 370 CAP JOINS SEARCH FOR MISSING MALAYSIAN AIRLINER Liz - Gate Assignments? Derek - BWI Runways, Go-Arounds Tom - Runway Widths from Episode 108 Lee - Crews Darren - Fuel Policy Mechanic Bob - Maintenance records Chuck - Plane Overweight? Ray - Airport ice removal Snow and Ice Control Chemicals For Airports Operations Private Pilot Tilman - great example of good communication Jesse - College Degree? Mike - Passenger Weights Sergio - I made him lose a goal! Josh in Tulsa - A332 side stick oops! A332 Side Stick Interference Incident VIDEO Audible.com Trial Membership Offer - Get your free audio book today! Give me your review in iTunes! I'm "airlinepilotguy" on Facebook, and "airlinepilotguy" on Twitter. feedback@airlinepilotguy.com (304) 99-PILOT (304) 997-4568 airlinepilotguy.com ATC audio from http://LiveATC.net Intro/Outro music by Tim Brown, BrownHouseMedia, iStockphoto.com Copyright © AirlinePilotGuy 2013, All Rights Reserved