Even down here in Australia we’re being impacted by the out-of-control antics of the TSA, so what the heck, we’ll have a bit of a c’est la vent moment about it. We also have our usual opinionated discussion on some other news items and chat with Shashank Nigam from SimpliFlying.

Here’s how the show proceeds:

• Prosecutors want Garuda pilot back in jail (ABC News)
• Farmer’s flight path message for charity (ABC News)
• The first aircraft taken to Antarctica has been found again:
• Remains of Antarctica’s first plane found (ABC News)
• Future of Antarctic plane undecided (ABC News)
• David Vanderhoof gives us an Aviation History segment
• Guy Menzies with his crashed Avian (image)
• Image of an Avian in a pprune.org story
• QANTAS Super Constellation
• Air NZ’s new cabin crew outfits like ‘drag queens’ (Greer McDonald & Kiran Chug @ Sydney Morning Herald)
• Phrase “elephant in the room” is most popular cliche of 2009 (The Mirror) (AirNZ’s use of the phrase “disestablished”)
• Tiger Airways carries 3 millionth passenger (Travel Daily News)
• Tiger’s flight delayed 10-hours (The Morning Bulletin)
• Tiger Airways advances aircraft delivery (Yahoo! Singapore)
• Discussion about Tiger’s callsign on our forum @ Downwind
• Jetstar and AirAsia form a Joint Venture:
• http://au.biz.yahoo.com/100105/2/2am5y.html (Yahoo! FInance)
• Analyst tips fruitful Jetstar-AirAsia alliance (ABC News)
• Two-for-one budget airlines (Stephen Bartholomeusz @ Business Spectator)
• Jetstar maintenance stays onshore (Geoff Easdown @ HeraldSun)
• Australian executives at Jetstar Pacific not allowed to leave Vietnam:
• Jetstar Pacific executives questioned in Vietnam (ABC News)
• Jetstar Pacific probe set to last months (ABC News)
• QANTAS are impacted by another Amadeus crash:
• Flights delayed after Qantas glitches (ABC News)
• Another computer glitch for Qantas (Australian Aviation)
• Qantas may be just another eyes wide victim of IT "lies" (Ben Sandilands @ Plane Talking on Crikey)
• Passengers suffer as Qantas check-in fails (Lanai Vasek @ The Australian)
• We chat with Shashank Nigam from SimpliFlying
• We have a c’est la vie moment about the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)
• Technical glitch strands Qantas passengers (ABC News)
• Listener Mail:
• Jack Seymour’s got a blog up about his learning to fly (Student Flight)
• Mark mentions Coronal Mass Ejections and their potential impacts on GPS systems
• Shout Outs:
• The new Mile High Flyers podcast is well worth listening to (and they refer to our show in their second episode – w00t :)
• Will & Dave at The Pilot’s Flight Podlog podcast have provided us with a promo piece and are joining in the fun of cross-promoting other podcasts

As usual, our theme music track is “YouNameIt5” by Brian Simpson (aka t3cat5) and our sound effects come from SoundSnap.com.