Some in-cockpit audio provided by a listener triggered a discussion on the differences in pre-landing checklists (GUMPS vs BUMFTH vs BUMFOH vs whatever). All of Grant’s aviation books & manuals are still in boxes after moving house so he had to rely on his memory with predictable results. Talk about incentive to go out and get current again…

Given we couldn’t do a whole episode around the concept of “gas” in different countries, we also discuss recent aviation news items (so many to chose from lately) and have a collection of interviews we recorded at the RAAF’s Air Pageant at Point Cook.

Here’s how the episode hangs together this time:

• We have yet another opinionated discussion on recent news items:
• QANTAS are very much in the news due to an engineering dispute and maintenance woes
• Qantas jumbo with damaged engine lands safely at Sydney airport (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
• Tyres burst on Qantas A380 (Australian Aviation)
• Qantas denies industrial action could delay flights (ABC News)
• Engineer strike compounds Qantas woe (ABC News)
• Qantas engineers in overtime bans for Easter (Australian Aviation)
• Qantas bosses accused of breaches on safety (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
• Engineers demand watchdog investigate Qantas (ABC News)
• Virgin Blue has signed up with Boeing for new 737s
• Virgin Blue signs order for 50 new Boeing 737 jets (Bill Lindsay @ The Australian)
• The Blue's big Boeing buy (Australian Aviation)
• New boss to aim for bigger Tiger (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
• Tower, ILS upgrades for Melbourne (Australian Aviation)
• Sydney Airport flags huge rise for plane berths (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
• Last boarding calls for Sydney's tarmac tours (Ben Sandilands @ Crikey)
• Brindabella closes flying school (Australian Aviation)
• Rhinos arrive (Australian Aviation) (First 5 RAAF Super Hornets land in Australia)
• CASA are converting our GAAP airports to Class D in June. Have you booked in to attend one of their workshop seminars on the transition? You’d better. Check out the CASA web page about the transition.
• We shamelessly rip off UCAP’s “Off field landing of the week” segment
• Plane lands on Hobart highway (Yahoo! 7 News)
• Pilot praised over highway crash landing (ABC News)
• We recorded a few interviews with pilots at the RAAF’s Air Pageant at Point Cook airbase
• Jim & Jenny Wickham (Yak9 & Robinson R22)
• Jim Whalley (CA-13 Boomerang)
• Murray Colquhoun (chief experimental test pilot with Pilatus & the PC21)
• Anthony Simmons returns with his “View from the Lounge” segment
• What’s in our mailbag for this episode?
• Luke Harris raises the issue of laser pointers being used to tag aircraft
• Bob Livingstone makes some comments about the B24
• Damien Rose provides some in-cockpit audio (we play his intro but the cockpit audio is at the end of the episode)
• We definitely have some shout outs this episode
• Marty at Flight.org has been of great assistance to us, helping to promote the podcast & much more
• Thanks to those folks mentioning @pcdu in their Follow Friday tweets
• Check out errolwi on Twitter for his tweets while at the Warbirds over Wanaka air show in New Zealand (and yes, you’re welcome for the F-18s :)
• Good luck to Zyola from the Mile High Flyers podcast as she’s going through the “joys” of losing her job recently. We also want to know if our photos on our About us page scared off her friends who thought our accents were cool/hot/sexy :)
• Thanks to Stuart Stevenson of the Pilots Journey podcast for setting up the Aviation Podcasts Network aggregator site

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