The Student Pilot Cast (mp3)

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SPC #016-Oshkosh Update Aug 04, 2008

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Hello everyone. I’m reposting this as I just discovered that it was lost somehow. My episode 16 from Oshkosh 2008 where I announced that I had achieved my private pilot.

SPC #015-On Par with the VOR Jul 08, 2008

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Shooting ’em out rapid-fire, now, folks. Here’s another episode of the Student Pilot Cast, number 15, about a flight in which we focused on VORs and Simulated Instrument Conditions (The Hood). I had passed my Phase II Check, and I was starting on Phase III. I hope you enjoy.

SPC #014-Stage II, That’s Who! Jul 06, 2008

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Episode 14 is here! Today we’ll follow a dual lesson that I had to prep for the Stage II Stage Check. Now that I had been introduced to shorts and softs, and had some time to practice, it was time to finish stage II. Before I could do this stage check, though, I had to prep with my instructor. That’s what this lesson and episode is about. We practiced steep turns, minimum controllable airspeed, power on and power off stalls, emergency procedures, and a couple more short and soft landings.

Thanks for listening. I hope you enjoy episode 14.

SPC #013-Ground Reference Revisited Jul 02, 2008

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This is an episode about a solo flight I took to practice ground reference maneuvers. I also take the opportunity to share portions of an email I received from David Allen, a future pilot who’s email summarized in an eloquent way what several people have said to me since I started this. I asked David for permission to share his email, and he graciously allowed me to. Thanks, David, for the kind words, the motivation to keep producing more episodes, and allowing me to share it. Like I say in the episode itself, contact and notes from people like David are the only compensation that podcasters like me get for the hours put into production and planning. Letters from David and others like him make it well worth it.

So, if you would like to contact me, feel free to do so at the email address mentioned in the episode, or simply click on the contact link on this website and let me know what you think. Up next I’ll be finishing up Stage II, and it will be on to the cross country work in stage III. I hope you hang with me…there’s a lot more to come.

SPC #012-Who Said Anything About Short and Soft? Jun 25, 2008

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Okay, we’re back to the lessons. As you can see from the title, at this point in my training I have started learning the performance takeoffs and landings sometimes referred to as “Shorts” and “Softs”. Within 4 day’s time I had three dual lessons on these performance landings and takeoffs. I also take a moment in this episode to comment on a strategic mistake that I made in this part of my training. Let this be a lesson for you all!

Enjoy the episode. Please leave feedback or comments.

SPC #011-Who Would Produce a Podcast, Anyway? Jun 21, 2008

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We have a very special episode of the audio cast today. Yesterday, Jerry O’Sullivan from the Virginia Student Pilot podcast completed his first solo flight! Well, we had a chance to talk today while it was fresh in his mind, and that’s the cast we have today.

The second big news of the day is that Jerry has finally released episode 5 (he was stuck on episode 4 for a while) of his cast. He’s got a big backlog of stories, too, so we’re looking for more episodes from him over the coming weeks. So I’m sure he will relate his first solo flight through his feed when he gets there in his podcast, you get to listen to some of that reflection today, along with other topics as well.

I really enjoyed speaking with Jerry, and I’m sure you all will enjoy this as well. Thanks, Jerry, for spending this time with all of us. If you aren’t subscribed to the Virginia Student Pilot podcast, check it out. You’ll love it. You can do so through iTunes…but if you don’t use iTunes, here is the proper feed to use: RSS for VA Student Pilot feed.

Enjoy.

SPC #010-Sometimes You Just Feel Like a Pilot Jun 16, 2008

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Hello, everyone. I’ve just returned from my little vacation Scuba Diving with my buddies in the Channel Islands, and I’m releasing episode 10. This episode documents a very memorable flight for me; a flight that helped me remember why I’m doing this. This flight may end up being even more important to me than my first solo. Listen to this episode to understand why.

Also, The Student Pilot Cast got mentioned in AOPA’s Flight Training Magazine! Jill from AOPA contacted me a while back and asked me some questions about my podcast and some of my motivations for creating and producing it. In the July issue on page 14 they outline some of this in the feature, “Training Notes and News”. Very humbling to be mentioned in a publication that I’ve been reading for a long time, and which I respect a lot.

Also, because of that exposure, I’ve gotten a significant number of new listeners, so I want to welcome these newcomers to my exhibitionism around learning to fly. More and more I’m doing this for all the world to hear and see…mistakes and all.

In this episode, I document my first ever flight away from the airport by myself where I am PIC from start to finish.

SPC #009-What’s it Like to be a New Pilot? Jun 10, 2008

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Episode 9 is completely different. We’ll get back to the regular podcasts momentarily, but for this episode, we have the pleasure of hearing from Pilot PJ, a relatively new pilot who shares his wisdom with us. PJ and I talk about everything from multiple “discovery flights” to finally taking passengers for rides. Some of the stuff in between includes landings, instructors, the Internet, and an aviation museum that PJ volunteers for in Texas.

Enjoy the episode, and a big “Thank you” goes out to PJ for helping out with this one. Excuse the audio quality…I’m still learning how to properly record interviews.

SPC #008-Movin’ on Up Jun 03, 2008

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Here is Episode 8 of the Student Pilot Cast, “Movin’ on Up”. Join me as I document a dual flight I had where we worked on partial panel instrument flying, ground reference maneuvers, and crosswind landing. I’ve got a lot of good stuff coming up, and I’m going to start releasing more episodes to relieve the burden of documenting many flights in one episode…it starts to get daunting when I’ve got 6 or 7 flights backlogged. In addition, I’m hoping this makes it easier to listen and follow it as well. It should give me more opportunities to do other topics rather than just doing flights every time. But because I’m flying on average three times a week, it’s easy to fall behind. We’ll see how it goes.

In any case, enjoy episode 8 of the audio cast. Let me know what you think by contacting me through the contact link above, leaving a comment on this episode, or emailing me at the email address mentioned in the audio cast.

SPC #007-Alone Again May 26, 2008

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Another episode. This week I get to finish up recounting the story of my first solo, and then the very next day, my second solo. There was a lot of good experience to be had, and I try to sum it up in this episode.

Enjoy, and let me know if you have any suggestions for the audio cast. I’m hoping to get some video up soon, but I’m experimenting with the capture of video. Well see how it all works out.

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