The Pilot's Flight PodLog

Tue, 20 October 2009

This week we talk to Rick Felty, a newly-minted private pilot who likes to film his flights from multiple angles with multiple cameras, thus giving us lucky viewers a really great perpective on the flight. Rick talks about some of the hurdles he had to overcome in his flight training, lists some of the podcasting resourced he used in his flight training, and discusses some a couple of emergencies that he overheard on the frequency during his flights.

Stay tuned for some more exiting episodes. Also, Will and David have tentative plans to attend the 2009 AOPA Aviation Summit in Tampa, FL from November 5th through the 7th. If all goes well, we plan to bring some great coverage of the event to you in the form of several QuickCasts, a full-length podcast episode, and an abundance of Tweets.

As always, we'd like to thank Steve Tupper and Scott Cannizzaro for the music for this podcast. If you'd like to email us to leave us feedback or be a guest, please drop us a line at pilotsflightpodlog@gmail.com.

Shownotes:

Why start at age 48?
Sticking points in flight training
Rick's YouTube Page http://www.youtube.com/rdfelty
Video Podcasters

Ed Stoffel - Flying Reports Podcast
Blog post on colorblindness and a class 3 medical
Primary flight training in a glass cockpit
Capturing some emergency calls
The value of recording flying lessons
ATC: The Aviation Trivia Challenge

Question 1: What was the name of the first artificial satellite to orbit the Earth?

Answer: Sputnik-1
First correct answer: @pilot2b

Question 2: Precipitation that falls from a cloud and evaporates before reaching the ground is called what?

Answer: Virga
First correct answer: @s_crawford

Question 3: During which northern hemisphere season is the earth closest to the sun?

Answer: Winter
First correct answer: @Mike_Flys

Sponsors:

Will on Twitter: http://twitter.com/pilotwill
David on Twitter: http://twitter.com/DaveFlys
Email address: pilotsflightpodlog@gmail.com
Rick's email: rickfelty@mac.com
Rick on Twitter: http://twitter.com/rfelty

Direct download: PFP__52_Rick_Felty.mp3
Category: podcasts -- posted at: 4:10 PM

Comments[3]

I am a pilot in Iowa. I liked your comment about learning to fly and doing a cross country in Iowa. It is true that it is mostly corn (or at least fields with corn or soy beans). And in the winter it is white. One of the tricks that one of my instructors told me if I got lost was to look at the water towers. Many of the small Iowa towns have water towers with the town name written on the tower. :-)

posted by: Jesse Peterson on Wed, 10/21 05:43 PM EDT

Thanks for the mention.

posted by: Ed Stoffel on Thu, 10/22 04:46 PM EDT

Great show - where else will you hear about how a color blind pilots can pass his medical. Great way to "meet" others infected with the aviation bug - keep it up!

posted by: Brendan Fitzpatrick on Sat, 11/28 11:25 PM EST

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