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Preflight Checklist: “There is something magical about a seed planted in our younger years. So many passions are born during this time, and the seed that gets the best water and sun is the one that grows the strongest. In aviation, it’s not hard to find people completely addicted. The bug bites hard. ClayViation is about growing that passion.” – Clay Aviation Sponsor: Aviation Careers Podcas...

Preflight Checklist In this episode we interview Ben Sclair, publisher of General Aviation News and Living With Your Plane . We also review the movie “Sully” and discuss lessons learned. Visit Our Sponsor: Aviation Careers Podcast inspires future aerospace professionals by providing an inside look into aviation and aerospace careers. Aviation Careers Podcast publishes the largest scholarships dire...

Preflight Checklist: Interview with pilot and renowned author, Owen Zupp.  Owen has written 7 books and has a Masters Degree in Aviation. He has literally flown around Australia, which is a subject of another one of his books. He has recently written about the history of aviation in Australia. You can check out all his writing and work at StuckMicAvCast.com/owenzupp . Cruise Flight: Why this book...

Preflight Checklist: We have exciting interviews and analysis from AirVenture 2016 in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Larry Overstreet, Russ Roslewski, and Tom Frick attended  AirVenture, while Rick Felty and Carl Valeri virtually attended through social media.  Listen to the crew of Stuck Mic AvCast as they discuss the greatest air show on earth! Please send you questions or comments to  contact@stuckmicavca...

Preflight Checklist: We are at Lakeland Linder Airport at Polk State College with Dr. Ryan Wallace to discuss the new Remote Pilot Certificate. Cruise Flight: FAA estimates that there will be 7 million UAS by 2020, including commercial and recreational use. The FAA estimates about 100 incidents per month involving a visual sighting of unmanned aircraft systems by pilots. These are not necessarily...

Preflight Checklist: Do you ever wonder what happens when you are handed off to another air traffic controller? In this episode we will explain. Joining us today is Chris Pezalla who discusses his article he posted on ExpertAviator .  We also have some other special guests from our mobile reporting studio at Air Venture.  Listen to find out who our surprise guest was on the show! Announcements: Ai...

Pre-Flight: Welcome to another edition of the Stuck Mic AVCast! Carl, Larry, Eric, Rick, Tom, and Victoria are all here. We have a special interview tonight with Chris Pezalla, who literally wrote the book on advanced holding patterns! But first, some announcements: AirVenture is coming up July 25-31. You can get more information at their website . Larry and Tom are going and Carl is hoping to be...

Preflight: Welcome to Episode 122 of Stuck Mic AvCast. We have a great discussion today about the new Airmen Certification Standards. Also, we have been receiving feedback on climb gradients so we will explain how to calculate the required rate of climb. Before we take off there are a few things to go over on our preflight check list. Announcements: EAA AirVenture Oshkosh July 25-31. Blue Angels R...

Pre-Flight Checklist: Carl, Rick, Russ, and Tom are here tonight to talk about the passion of aviation and electronic devices. Tonight’s sponsor is Aviation Careers Podcast , which provides aviation scholarships, career coaching, and interview prep. If you are looking to get a new rating come check us out! Cruise Flight: Tonight Carl is going to play an interview he did with Senne from hanga...

Pre-Flight Checklist: Welcome to the show, we have a very special guest with us along with Carl, Rick and Victoria. Carl suggested you checkout the June issue of Flight Training magazine, has a cover article on cross wind landings, which ties right in to the recent episode we did on this same topic. Also please continue to contact us on the site with your comments and questions. Victoria reminded...

Pre-Flight Checklist: Welcome aviators and avgeeks. We have a special show for you today focusing on a very important topic you will discuss during your entire flying life. The topic is an idea from our co host Russ Roslewski. Cruise Flight: Russ asked why don’t we talk about about flight reviews? Specifically, as the pilot, how to make sure you’re getting something out of it, it’s eff...

Pre-Flight Checklist: This is a special, LIVE episode of Stuck Mic from the Sun N Fun Air Show! Carl is joined by special c0-hosts Russ Roslewski , Larry Overstreet , Robert Cigliano , Tom Frick , Eric Crump , and Derek Lagasse. Carl is meeting Russ Roslewski in person for the first time. Russ has his own CFI blog and accepts user submissions. Eric Crump announced that he missed announcing some pe...

Welcome aviators and airplane geeks to the show where we talk about learning to fly, living to fly, and loving to fly. Spring is upon us and for many this is the season where we start flying again from a winter break. It also is the season of dynamic changes in weather and strong winds. Tonight we are going to discuss one of the most important topics and one that can prevent most landing accidents...

Pre-Flight Checklist: Welcome to another informative episode of the Stuck Mic AvCast. Joining me today are my favorite scholarly aviators: Tom Frick , Larry Overstreet , Paul Grieco , Russ Roslewski , and Sean Moody . As with most scholarly aviators our hosts are continually trying to improve their aviation skills and knowledge. Today we will be discussing the new standards the FAA is implementing...

Pre-Flight Checklist: Welcome To The Stuck Mic AvCast. Tonight I am joined by my favorite aviation advocates. We have a special episode which is a continuation of our discussion from the last episode. Announcements: One of Russ’ private pilot students (mentioned in a previous episode) completed his Private Pilot checkride after having some engine problems on a previous flight. Carl and the o...

Pre-Flight Checklist: Carl, Tom, Paul, the other Tom, Russ, and Eric are all on this episode to discuss how to be prepared for an in-flight fire. Eric announced that Polk State University recently had their first hiring visit from Express Jet, which gave conditional offers to seven of his students. Eric also announced that he actually got to get in an airplane today for some observation in a 172....

Pre-Flight Checklist: We have a special show tonight with a big cast of characters: Rick Felty, Victoria Zajko, Tom Frick, Larry Overstreet and Sean Moody. Paul Grieco also joins us tonight as a special guest. Cruise Flight: Tonight’s topic is the NTSB Most Wanted List Reducing fatigue-related accidents and FAR 117 Stories from the crew about flying fatigued Implementing fatigue management t...

Pre-Flight:  Carl, Eric, Larry, Tom and Russ are here for this episode to warm your heart for aviation in this cold weather. Eric is currently in Washington, D.C. working on the new Airman Certification Standards with an FAA working group, and he’s not used to it being this cold! Larry is even colder weather where it is 1 degree! Russ announced new rules for Student Pilot Certificates beginn...

Happy New Year and welcome to the  New Years 2016 episode of The Stuck Mic AvCast. We start the year by honoring a special group of  veterans, the Woman Air Force Service Pilots with one of our most requested interviews. At Sun N Fun 2012, Carl interviewed World War II pilots Dora Dougherty McKeown and Barry Smith . One of the pilots, Dora, is one of only 2 women to ever fly a Boeing B29. Their in...

Pre-Flight: Rick, Larry, Tom, Victoria, and Carl are all here for this episode! Russ will be joining in a bit later in the show. Announcements: The Affordable Aircraft Expo  (also knows as the Sebring US Sport Aviation Expo) is January 20-23 2016 and Carl is trying to make it there with SMAC. and Sun N Fun Radio. Tom is trying to get there, and some of Victoria’s colleagues will be there. Cr...

Preflight: Welcome to Episode 109 and Happy Thanksgiving! In this episode, we discuss reinstating your CFI and Flying Drones. Carl, Rick, Tom, Larry and Eric are here on a warm November day. Carl just finished his annual recurrent training. If you have recently finished some training or rating please let us know so we can give you a shout out! Cruise Flight: Tonight we have a special interview wit...

Carl At Wyoming Valley Airport , PA Preflight: Welcome to Episode 108. In this episode we discuss  the proposed drone registration and airplane parachutes. The Cirrus Ballistic Recovery system saves another life and we discuss this incident.  We also have some cool flying videos to discuss. Drone registration is proposed to increase safety and promote education on the safe use of drones. This epis...

Pre-flight Checklist: Welcome to Episode 107 of The Stuck Mic AvCast,  an aviation podcast about Learning To Fly, Living to Fly, and Loving to Fly! Sharing the magic of aviation is a joy flight instructors experience every day. Occasionally, instructors have a student which changes our lives and perspective on life. Today we discuss flying with ALS (Lou Gehrig’s Disease) and how the lessons...

Pre-Flight Checklist: Carl, Sean, and Tom are here to interview Jason Schappert of MZeroA , which is an online training site for pilots which includes online ground school, books, videos and more. They work with pilots of all levels from brand new pilots in training, to current pilots, and even “rusty” pilots that have not flown for a while and need to resharpen their skills. Cruise Fl...

Pre-Flight Checklist Photograph: Jacob Steinberg for the Guardian Carl, Rick, Larry, Eric, and Sean are here, as well as a special guest Tom Frick. Carl realized recently that he is an “AV Geek,” or Aviation Geek. Announcements Eric had a big signing ceremony today with ExpressJet , as Polk State’s Aerospace program entered into Expressjet’s Airline Pilot Pathway Program, w...