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Aviation Podcast #167 - Expect More
Hello Aviators!  Jess and I are expecting the arrival of a baby girl in March!  So ... we are taking the winter off.  For more information about TFP and our 09 winter publication schedule please listen to this episode.  Until next time ... 

Be Safe and Fly Your Best!
Jason
11/25/2009 7:00:00 PM
The Finer Points
Aviation Podcast #166 - Questions To The Max - Part II
This week we wrap up our 2 part question and answer series with Max Trescott.  Please enjoy The Finer Points!

Fly Your Best,
Jason
11/24/2009 7:00:00 PM
The Finer Points
Questions To The Max - Aviation Podcast #165
This week we begin a two part 'Question and Answer' series with Max Trescott.  Write to us with your GPS related questions and hear Max answer those questions on an episode.  All submissions due by September 16th, 2009.  Please enjoy The Finer Points!

Fly Your Best,
Jason
9/9/2009 2:10:00 PM
The Finer Points
Don't Bank On Your Stall Speed - Aviation Podcast #164
Stall Speed often varies with bank angle.  Understanding this variation will help us be safer pilots.  This week on TFP we discuss load factor and how stall speed varies with bank angle. Fly Your Best!

Jason
8/19/2009 8:00:00 PM
The Finer Points
Review of the OSH Arrival - Aviation Podcast #163
This week on TFP we review the highlights of the arrival procedure to the greatest celebration in aviation, the EAA's AirVenture at Oshkosh, Wisconsin. Use this file as a last minute audio review as you prepare to fly into the show ... or couch fly the procedure from the comfort of your own home, if you can't make it this year. Please remember to keep your eyes out for other traffic and as always, be safe and fly your best!

Normal Podcasting will resume on August 7th upon our return to California.

Jason
7/25/2009 9:38:00 AM
The Finer Points
Cross Winds Are Painless - Aviation Podcast #162
This week on TFP we look at how crosswinds will effect the pattern circuit from takeoff, all the way through landing. Please enjoy The Finer Points! Fly Your Best, Jason
6/19/2009 10:10:52 AM
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McGhee Tyson News
Knoxville wins grant for airport - Knoxville News Sentinel

Knoxville wins grant for airport
Knoxville News Sentinel
In June, low-fare carrier AirTran Airways began flights from McGhee Tyson Airport to its hub in Orlando. Danni Varlan, president of East Tennesseans for ...

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3/10/2010 10:46:31 AM
McGhee Tyson News
Moon: Financial rules a lot like airport security - Knoxville News Sentinel

Moon: Financial rules a lot like airport security
Knoxville News Sentinel
A couple of weeks ago, my family was passing through security at Knoxville's McGhee Tyson Airport. We looked like the Griswolds on vacation, ...

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3/10/2010 10:46:31 AM
McGhee Tyson News
11 Blount County puppies flown to new homes in Rochester, NY - Maryville Daily Times

11 Blount County puppies flown to new homes in Rochester, NY
Maryville Daily Times
Pilot Paul Schechter and veterinarian Jim Fingeroth flew from Rochester, NY, into Tac Air at McGhee Tyson Airport a little after 2 pm Saturday to pick up ...

3/10/2010 10:46:31 AM
Local Flying School
Graduate of South-Doyle and Carson Newman killed in Iraq crash - WBIR-TV

Graduate of South-Doyle and Carson Newman killed in Iraq crash
WBIR-TV
"He had a rough time in flight school. He had to keep going, keep going," Hartwell said. Marcus Alford earned an ROTC scholarship to Carson Newman College, ...

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3/10/2010 10:46:31 AM
Local Flying School
Hero's death doesn't sway friends opinions on war - WVLT

Hero's death doesn't sway friends opinions on war
WVLT
The incident shocked fellow pilots from his flight school class. "My heart sank,” said CW2 Tellys Hunter. “I was speechless, I couldn't believe it. ...

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3/10/2010 10:46:31 AM
AOPA News
AOPA, Calif. pilots speak up for Oceano airport
AOPA and California pilots are speaking out against a developer’s unsolicited plan to close the Oceano County Airport in Grover Beach so that it could be converted into residential and commercial uses.
3/9/2010 1:00:00 AM
AOPA News
Boeing Field: Raising rents in a downturn?
King County, Wash., plans to raise land lease rental rates for tenants at Boeing Field. AOPA has emphasized that the increase does not reflect the economic hardships imposed by the recession.
3/9/2010 1:00:00 AM
AOPA News
Record-setting pilot receives additional honors
Barrington Irving, who in 2007 became the first African-American to fly around the world, received additional recognition of his achievements in February, which is designated Black History Month.
3/9/2010 1:00:00 AM
AOPA News
Obama to nominate retired Army general to head TSA
The White House will nominate Robert A. Harding, a retired major general with 33 years of Army experience, as head of the Transportation Security Administration, Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced March 8.
3/8/2010 1:00:00 AM
AOPA News
AOPA praises pilots willing to 'drop everything and fly'
AOPA Foundation President Karen Gebhart traveled the Southeast this week to connect with pilots about helping general aviation serve their communities.
3/4/2010 1:00:00 AM
Cessna 172
Two hundred consecutive months! - Cornwall Seaway News

Two hundred consecutive months!
Cornwall Seaway News
MONDAY FEBRUARY 1, 2010 – It was a Cessna 172 and pilot Stephen Small of Cornwall Aviation that made it possible for me to get the flight that became ...

3/10/2010 10:46:35 AM
Cessna 172
Garfield County airport to shut down April 5 through November 18 - Glenwood Springs Post Independent

Garfield County airport to shut down April 5 through November 18
Glenwood Springs Post Independent
But there are two, he said — a Cessna 172 and an experimental Dragonfly — that are not paid up and may be declared abandoned. If that happens, he said, ...

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3/10/2010 10:46:35 AM
Cessna 172
Airport Authority may sell older training plane - Polk County Democrat

Airport Authority may sell older training plane
Polk County Democrat
Two Cessna 172, four-seater training aircraft will remain in service at the flight school attended by about a dozen student pilots. ...

3/10/2010 10:46:35 AM
Cessna 172
Air Traffic Controller Lets his Kid Talk to Pilots - Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)

Air Traffic Controller Lets his Kid Talk to Pilots
Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog)
Sure, this might have been a little more "fun" at a smaller airport directing Cessna 172's, not at JFK, directing large Boeing 747's. ...

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3/10/2010 10:46:35 AM
Cessna 150
Sabotageakt möglich - Notlandung eines Kleinflugzeus nach Motor-Ausfall - Krone.at

Sabotageakt möglich - Notlandung eines Kleinflugzeus nach Motor-Ausfall
Krone.at
Schrecksekunden haben der Pilot und ein Passagier einer Cessna 150 am Dienstag über dem Nordburgenland erlebt: Das Kleinflugzeug war in Wiener Neustadt ...

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3/10/2010 10:46:34 AM
Cessna 150
Cessna 150 in Oberösterreich abgestürzt – 2 Tote - Austrian Wings - Österreichs Luftfahrtmagazin

Austrian Wings - Österreichs Luftfahrtmagazin

Cessna 150 in Oberösterreich abgestürzt – 2 Tote
Austrian Wings - Österreichs Luftfahrtmagazin
Die Cessna 150 gilt als gutmütiges Schulflugzeug; Generationen von Piloten lernten auf ihr fliegen – Foto: M. Fesl / Picturenews.at Die Maschine, ...

3/10/2010 10:46:34 AM
Cessna 150
Arrastran fuertes vientos avioneta en NL - El Financiero (México)

SDP Noticias

Arrastran fuertes vientos avioneta en NL
El Financiero (México)
El aparato, una avioneta Cessna 150 de dos plazas, matrícula XB-BNE quedó con las llantas hacia arriba y sobre la malla ciclónica de la terminal áerea ...
Fuertes vientos vuelcan avionetaMilenio
Nueve estados del país registrarán rachas de vientos superiores a los 40 ...CNNMéxico.com

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3/10/2010 10:46:34 AM
Cessna 150
Teenager's high-flying ambition - East Anglian Daily Times

Teenager's high-flying ambition
East Anglian Daily Times
But he admitted to being a little apprehensive about his trip up in a Cessna 150. “At the start when we were lining up on the runway my dad was going ...

3/10/2010 10:46:34 AM
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