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Welcome back it’s PlaneMadness Episode 42. As usual I’ve got some great content for you to play in the car, on your iPod, while you’re at work, or when you’re out taking a walk. In this episode I continue our discussion about adventurer Steve Fossett, another TSA screener has been caught steeling, the FAA is going to watch crew members who are repeat drug offenders drop their underwear, meaningful new media having to do with aviation, positive aircraft control, and live ATC on your iPhone… All sprinkled with Arthur Yoria’s hypnotic tune entitled ‘Rim Job’ off the Podsafe Music Network.

• More on Steve Fossett - 8:40
  Update: Remains found, identified as Fossett’s
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• Another TSA Screener Caught Steeling Your Stuff - 10:39
  TSA Agent Pythias Brown was steeling all kinds of electronics from passenger’s bags, and then posting them for sale on eBay.
  Click here for more info…
• FAA Makes Repeat Drug Offenders Bear All - 12:49
  The Feds are planning to carefully watch crew members who are repetitive drug offenders while they give urine samples now.
  Click here for more info…
• Meaningful Aviation Media - 14:38
  I discuss ‘Sometimes Alternates Fly - My Ride with the USAF Thunderbirds‘ by Stephen Force and ‘Flying Full Circle‘ by Brian J. Terwilliger, two incredibly special pieces of aviation media.
  Sometimes Alternates Fly - Stephen Force
  Flying Full Circle - Brian J. Terwilliger
• Positive Aircraft Control - 20:12
  After 9/11 there was a lot of talk about Positive Aircraft Control - Where the controls of a hijacked airliner could be taken from the ground through modern technological innovations that originated in the world of UAV’s. My thoughts on it.
  Click here for more info…
  Fast-thinking pilot fools hijacker - MSNBC.Com
• Live ATC on your iPhone - 23:17
  Wouldn’t it be cool if there was an app that streamed live ATC! What better then to sit at Starbucks or the airport and listen to the tower… on your iPhone, no less?
  Click here for more info…

Music in this Episode:
Arthur Yoria - Rim job

PlaneMadness Episode 42 Show Notes:
http://www.planemadness.com/2008/11/04/planemadness-episode-42/

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President Bush nominated former UAL Captain Bobby Sturgell to a five-year term as the head of the FAA. Before United, Mr. Sturgell was an instructor at the Navy Fighter Weapons School (Topgun). He is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and the University of Virginia School of Law.

Although Mr. Sturgell supports users fees- “A cost-based funding structure is essential to transforming the aviation system” he’s quoted as saying, the AOPA and the EAA said they both supported his nomination. AOPA President Phil Boyer says he’s found that Sturgell “understands aviation from the pilot’s perspective.” The National Business Aviation Association (NBAA) the General Aviation Manufacturers Association (GAMA) also support his nomination.

The only dissenter among the wave of positive support by the alphabet groups is the National Air Traffic Controllers Association (NATCA). “The President’s nomination for FAA Administrator has been an integral part of [the] systematic demise of controller staffing and abysmal labor-management relations,” said NATCA president Patrick Forrey. “Therefore, NATCA will not support a nominee who will continue to exhibit a management philosophy that demoralizes its valuable workforce to the point of leaving.”

Personally, I’d prefer someone with real world experience in that position myself.
~Capt’n Chris

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