UltraFlight Radio - Archives for August 2004

August 31, 2004

Dann Karlson, NOAA
NOAA is the government agency that receives and processes the signals from Emergency Locater Transponders (ELT)s and Personal Locator Beacons (PLB)s. Dann Karlson tells us how the system works to locate you when one trouble looms its ugly head and you have and one of the these beacons transmits a distress signal. www.sarsat.noaa.gov/ (8/31/04)

Reggie Caudle, Powrachute
Reggie Caudle helped build and test the world's first jet powered parachute. He joins us to talk about how that project came to be and whether or not it will be able to fly at this year's Powrachute Extravaganza. www.powrachute.com (8/31/04)

Ray Johnson, Fly/In Cruise/In
The Fly/In Cruise/In event is back for its 14th year. Ray Johnson joins us to talk about how this event combines aviation with classic cars, trucks, motorcycles and even tractors to support the community. www.flyincruisein.com/ (8/31/04)

Tom Olenik, Olenik Aviation
Tom Olenik is ready to answer your four stroke and two stroke ultralight aircraft engine questions. Call them in at (888) 514-2100 or IM them in on AOL or Yahoo Instant Messenger to UFRadio. www.buyitsellitfixit.com (8/31/04)

Martin Weaver, FAA Branch Manager, Sport Pilot
There are a lot of things going on with Sport Pilot and Marty Weaver catches us up with the news. Sport Pilot takes effect on 1 September and he tells us what that means to ultralight pilots that are and are not involved in one of the ultralight programs. Lots of listener questions are answered. afs600.faa.gov/AFS610.htm (8/31/04)

Martin Weaver, FAA Branch Manager, Sport Pilot
There are a lot of things going on with Sport Pilot and Marty Weaver catches us up with the news. Marty tells us about a Sport Pilot Implementation Meeting is going to take place next week. We talk about the things that need to be accomplished. afs600.faa.gov/AFS610.htm (8/31/04)

August 24, 2004

Clyde Poser, World Powered Parachute Champion
Clyde Poser has retaken the title of WPPC Champion. He joins us from on the road back to Washington State and an event that he is helping to organize, the 1rst Annual Powered Parachute Championship. www.westernppa.org/ (8/24/04)

John Conte, Aerochute International
John Conte is one of the designers of the Australian Aerochute. The Aerochute has been around for quite a while and incorporates a lot of features that are unique to their machine. John tells us about the history of the company and the machine. www.aerochute.com.au/ (8/24/04)

Trevor Wills, Australian Powered Parachute Team
Trevor Wills is back in the states to compete in the World Powered Parachute Championship. He visits with us about the powered parachuting movement in Australia. www.2004worldsballoons.com/ (8/24/04)

Mike Stratman, California Power Systems, Inc.
Mike Stratman visits with us about some of the history behind ultralight engines and engine manufacturers. www.800-airwolf.com/ (8/24/04)

Mike Stratman, California Power Systems, Inc.
Mike Stratman has been receiving a lot of used engines as a result of the Rotax engine exchange program. Many of the engines have serviceable parts that CPS is now making available to customers. Mike tells us about what kind of used parts are OK, what kind of parts are available, which parts are not available, and what kind of savings you can expect when getting a used part. www.800-airwolf.com/cpsnews.htm (8/24/04)

August 17, 2004

Arlene Thomas, Fostaire Helicopters
On August 11, two NBC reporters posing as foreign businessmen attempted to charter a helicopter at Fostaire Helicopters. Of course most foreign businessmen don't travel with backpacks concealing box cutters and knives. The folks at Fostaire did the right thing by contacting the FBI and the local police, but what was NBC thinking? www.fostaire.com/ (8/17/04)

Olivier Aubert, Trike Expeditions
Olivier Aubert and Mike Blyth have completed their African Coast to Coast Expedition. Olivier takes a break from compiling and organizing the 50 one-hour tapes of digital video taken to talk with us about the trip. www.trike-expeditions.com/CoasttoCoast/coasttocoast.html (8/17/04)

Kevin Byrne, SportplaneVM.com
Evolving from SportplaneTV, Sportplane Video Magazine is offering a service that will deliver a DVD onto your doorstep monthly that shows what we all want to see, a video source of news for sport aircraft. Kevin joins us to talk about how the project came to be, the format, the progress so far, and what we can expect in the near future. www.sportplanetv.com/ (8/17/04)

Ben Morrow, EAA Ultralight Council
Most people don't know where a lot of the training material comes from that we use in ultralight training. Ben Morrow has spent a lot of time creating those materials. Ben has also made those materials easy to get from the internet. From the EAA Ultralights page, you can visit pages where you can take refresher courses on line and can get copies of training manuals on line. Ben walks us through the process. www.safetydata.com/ufirc/ufirc.htm www.safetydata.com/manual/cover.htm (8/17/04)

Roy Beisswenger, World Powered Parachute Championship
The WPPC is coming up this weekend and last minute preparations for the event are underway. Roy talks about some of the last minute news and about some of the things you can expect this coming weekend. www.chute-out.com (8/17/04)

August 10, 2004

Martin Weaver, FAA Branch Manager, Sport Pilot
Marty Weaver just got back from AirVenture in Oshkosh where he met a lot of pilots and answered a lot of questions about Sport Pilot and Light Sport Aircraft. He answers those questions (and some of our own) for us here. afs600.faa.gov/AFS610.htm (8/10/04)

Tim McCord, Performance Designs
Never mind the introduction (which is wrong), this interview is with Tim McCord has been traveling to a lot of fly-ins this year as the factory representative for Performance Designs. We talk about the things he has seen, the places he's been, and the concerns of pilots in the powered parachuting world. www.pdpowered.com/powered.asp (8/10/04)

Rod Cowgill, Biplanes of Yesteryear
Rod just got back from Oshkosh where he was showing off the Mifyter II. This is a side-by-side seating biplane. Rod put a lot of work into the design and he tells us all about it. www.mifyter.com (8/10/04)

Roy Beisswenger, Impressions of Oshkosh
AirVenture had a different feel this year. With the publishing of the Sport Pilot initiative, the sport aviation industry now has a direction. Manufacturers saw sales because consumers felt more confident that they could fly the aircraft under the new rule. (8/10/04)

John Yonkin, WhisperHawk Aviation
When Sport Pilot was announced at FAA headquarters in Washington, D.C. last month, three aircraft fitting the Light Sport Aircraft classification were on display. As the owner of one of the aircraft, John Yonkin was one of the very few people at the press event that was not a member of the FAA person, in the leadership of an aviation organization, or a member of the press. We get a "regular pilot's" few of the FAA HQ's from John. www.whisperhawk.com/ (8/10/04)

August 3, 2004

Jon Thornburgh
Jon Thornburgh has spent a lot of time reviewing the new Sport Pilot Initiative, as he refers to it. Jon provides us with a review of the rule. www.jonthornburgh.com (8/3/04)

Jon Thornburgh
Jon Thornburgh has spent a lot of time reviewing the new Sport Pilot Initiative, as he refers to it. One of the things he has condensed out of his review is a time line of when things will happen and what the deadlines are in the new rule. He shares this critical information with us here. www.jonthornburgh.com (8/3/04)

John Ballantyne
John Ballantyne is someone else that has been researching Sport Pilot. He has read the rule and attended as many briefings on the subject as possible at AirVenture. He joins us to talk about some of the less discussed aspects of Sport Pilot. (8/3/04)

Tom Olenik, Olenik Aviation
Tom talks about how to work on the needle jet for a Rotax 447 that is running lean. Also a similar problem on a Rotax 582. When the show is live, Tom Olenik is ready to answer your four stroke and two stroke ultralight aircraft engine questions. Call them in at (888) 514-2100 or IM them in on AOL or Yahoo Instant Messenger to UFRadio. www.buyitsellitfixit.com (8/3/04)

Doug Ritter, Equipped to Survive
Doug Ritter has kept an eye on the advances in ELTs in the last year. We talk about those and compare them to another device becoming popular on the market, the PLB or Personal Locator Beacon. If you have an unscheduled stop over harsh terrain, both of these devices can help others find and help you. www.equipped.org (8/3/04)

Mike Watson, EAA Chapter 736
Chapter 736 is getting ready for their 8th Annual Everything That Flys fly-in held at the Central Maine Regional Airport in Norridgewock, Maine. Mike Watson joins us to talk about the event. pivot.net/~psi/eaa.htm (8/3/04)