AVIATION
SAFETY WALKS YOU THROUGH LANDING ON A ROAD IN AN
EMERGENCY Aviation
Safety magazine's Editor-in-Chief Jeb Burnside discusses these
and other questions with Mike Friedman, a Bonanza owner and CFI-I
who was forced to put down a single-engine Comanche on a Pennsylvania
Interstate several years ago. Listen to the actual ATC audio as they
discuss the event, the decision process, whether to declare an
emergency, and the many other aspects of handling this kind of
emergency.
Click here to listen. (26.1 MB,
19:03)
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A HEAVENLY
AIRLINE EXPERIENCE From broken guitars to missed destinations
to drunk pilots, airlines have been taking it on the chin recently. A
little humor goes a long way to putting it all in perspective, and the
following clip, which seems to have originated in a church humor blog,
looks at how Lutheran Airlines makes flying a down-to-earth
experience.
Click here to listen. (4.0 MB,
4:20)
FROZEN IN
TIME Like a lot of kids, Mikey McBryan grew up around
airplanes but he thought it was normal to coax DC-3 engines to life at
-40°. A Vancouver TV producer thought those kinds of experiences
would make a cool reality series and Ice Pilots NWT premieres on Canada's History
Television Wednesday night. AVweb's Russ Niles spoke with Mikey
about growing up with one of the largest round-engine fleets still
flying and in some of the harshest conditions on earth.
Click here to listen. (5.8 MB,
6:20)
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