Sat, 25 December 2010
Holiday Wishes from the Mile High Flyers to you, and a little modification of the age-old Night Before Christmas Story. Thank you for a great 2010, as we go to air this episode is being released one day after our ONE YEAR ANNIVERSARY of Mile High Flyers! We've enjoyed every minute of this first year, and look forward to more in 2011! Comments[0]
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Wed, 15 December 2010
On Sunday, December 5th 2010 - in conjunction with the Centennial of Women in Aviation organization, and because of the Fly It Forward campaign started by the amazingly talented Karlene Petitt of the Flight to Success blog, Nate & Zyola were honored to introduce Jackie from KOSI Radio in Denver to General Aviation. Some links for more information: Centennial of Women in Aviation - 100 Years of Women Licensed Women Pilots Karlene's blog, Flight to Success - Karlene put out a challenge and backed it with her own funds for prizes, but more importantly, helped with a HUGE event at her home airport near Seattle, WA. Jackie's blog at KOSI Radio's Website - "I flew, I FLEW!" Photo Album of the flight on the Mile High Flyers Facebook Page The current tally as of the release of this podcast is 852 introductory flights for girls and women in 11 countries on 4 continents made by volunteer pilots worldwide. Editor's Note: I *really* wanted to share this audio and this story with you all, and put in some crazy hours getting Episode 26 out of the can and on the site so I could get to this audio. This is by FAR the best thing I've done in Aviation all year, and I want to thank Jackie and her friend for coming out and taking a flight in good old N1279M, and Zyola, Karlene and all the volunteers at Centennial of Women in Aviation for their efforts to get the word out and organize events. Take a girl or woman up flying, and show them the love and passion we all have for Aviation today. Don't wait! -Nate Direct download: CentennialofWomeninAviationandJackie-Episode27.mp3 Category: -- posted at: 11:12 AM Comments[0]
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Tue, 14 December 2010
MHF Hosts: Nate, Zyola, Doug, Mike Recorded: November 7, 2010 Editor's Note: Yes, once again Nate's audio is low so when I leveled it, it brings in some white noise because it's just so dang low... and if you listen closely during David's portion of the show, you'll hear one of his family members practicing a little piano! (Which is just proof that we're just normal folks, talking about aviation!) And... yeah, note the recording date. Nate's trying to catch up on podcast releases! We'll get there! Maybe by our 1-year anniversary in December? • CH-21 "Flying Banana" Link from our discussion... Who's been or is going flying? What have we been up to? Zyola • Accepted into the Aviation Systems Engineering Program with a Flight minor at Metropolitan State College for Spring 2011 • Attended the last flight of Wings B-52: My blog post & pics of Shamu's last flight BUFF’s Final Flight, A B-52′s Final Duty Station • Mattel has added aviation back into the Barbie Pool: My blog about the new direction of Barbie & an intro to Desiree Horton Helicopter Barbie • Gave a tour for third graders at the Wings Over the Rockies Air and Space Museum • Shooting foam, rubber band rockets into the sky at the park with my daughter and drawing the interest of other parents. Doug • Flying I won a beer from one of my CFI's • YE Eagles 301 - 24 flown, 508 for the year, 14 rallies. http://www.eaa301.org/ • http://www.reporterherald.com/news_story.asp?id=28723 • The flying banana - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piasecki_H-21 • http://www.vintageflying.com/page24.html Mike • Had a 2 day job in Kingman AZ so instead of driving I flew Gregs Tomahawk N9916T there monday am then back Tuesday late afternoon, Used iPad with foreflight and Air Nav Pro for flight, and MotionX with Satellite to Navigate around the Taxi ways at KIGM. • Thursday I met with Bob and we went up in his Piper Cherokee N779LK to get me checked out in it so I can start flying it when I want and it's available. We flew some maneuvers, slow flight, and pattern work, Bob said he was very comfortable with me flying his plane. At $35 hr dry it is slight cheaper than the Tomahawk which is $50 hr dry but only burns about 5gal hour. Bob and I had so much fun flying together that we went up again on Friday to do some pattern work.I had some issues with my Lightspeed headset in the Cherokee. Bought an adapter for Stero to Mono at Radio Shack and .... • Elisabeth and I flew to Sky Ranch • Sent deposit to Rainbow Aviation and started buying some more tools Nate • 79M fixed after fuel leak. Flew a little bit. • Visited Seattle and the Boeing widebody plant at Everitt, WA - Way cool! • Joined the iPad Aviation Air Force • CAP Promotion or back to old rank or... whatever. Helping out where needed. Special Topic • David Crawford (@CrawfordDavidE) joined us. He's the Wing Director of Operations for the Civil Air Patrol North Carolina Wing and an aviation enthusiast. We talk about:
Shoutouts & Thank You's • MHF Mention in Uncontrolled Airspace podcast episode with DIA/Gun Club news. (Thanks @jackhodgson !) • Steve Tupper (@StevenForce) - Good job on taking the initiative to take aviation podcast information to a conference out in the real world in January! • Jack Rumple (@Skyjack) - Making presentation on Podcasts for the Wings Museum • Bob from VGT for letting me fly N779LK • Robert Cigliano (@robertcigliano) new iPad owner! Our Special Guest, David Crawford (@CrawfordDavidE)! And... Nate's wife's Barbershop chorus, Skyline Chorus! Who won 5th Place at Internationals in Seattle, WA earlier this year! Congratulations Skyline! Reaching Across the Fence • Karlene Petitt (@karlenepetitt) - Centennial of Women Pilots Airshow/Conference News AOPA Summit in Long Beach, California, November 11-13, 2010 (OKAY - We missed this by our release date, sorry!) Women in Aviation, International 2011 Conference in Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada, February 24-26, 2011 Cleared to Taxi to Parking Doug @dhindmanjr on Twitter www.twitter.com/dhindmanjr Zyola @Supovadea, on Twitter, My Blogosphere, MyTransponder, Girls With Wings, just Google Supovadea Mike @Mike_Flys on Twitter, http://mike-daniels.blogspot.com, MJD on MyTransponder Nate @denverpilot on Twitter, MyTransponder, Facebook and the world @MileHighFlyers on Twitter or email the crew at MHF@milehighflyers.com Avionics Off Always Check Density Altitude! Comments[0]
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Thu, 2 December 2010
We continue where we left off in Episode 24 with Daren @shotgun15e, Robert @robertcigliano, and the MHF gang, Zyola (@supovadea), Mike (@Mike_Flys) minus @dhindmanjr... 'cause he's busy gettin' his Private Pilot's license! Topics:
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Tech notes: Something was wrong with Nate's mic level, and it added white noise whenever it was live. I've fixed it. Apologies. Also we experienced a very strange phenomenon on Skype that you can hear in Episodes 24 and 25... Zyola's audio was delayed both directions. If it sounds like we're talking over each other sometimes, we are, but Zyola couldn't hear us until about 10 seconds later. It creates some awkward-sounding back and forth at times. The pauses aren't Z's fault. It's Skype. And it's strange. - Nate Comments[0]
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