• Gaston's Fly In
• Gaston's White River Resort
• AOPA Web Forums
• Pilots of America
• Flippen Marion County Airport
• Ozark Regional Airport
• Previous Pilotcast with CFI Dr. Bruce Chien
• Previous Pilotcast with Pilot Lance Flynn
• The IAR-823 aircraft

Pilotcast show notes are at http://www.pilotcast.com

Song: "Fly, Fly, Fly" by Adrina Thorpe.
Music on the Pilotcast is from the Podshow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at http://music.podshow.com

• Teaching flight students about making off-airport landings.
• Tony: Every glider landing is off-airport
• Considerations when selecting a field for landing
• The crop? Beans vs. Corn vs. Wheat
• Land near a road or the house.
• Should you land on a road?
• How to spot obstructions
• Can you spot telephone poles?
• Power lines
• Trees
• Tony on landing considerations for glider pilots
• Plan your approach to clear the obstructions
• Glider pilots will choose to land at an airport rather than fly over dense wooded areas.
• Gliders will never land on a road.
• What spot in a field is the best to aim for?
• How about a river?
• Rick as a former crop duster...how to spot power lines
• How low can you be and change landing fields?
• What if you see power lines?
• DON'T STALL THE AIRPLANE
• Who owns the airplane once you light off?
• Doing an intentional ground loop
• The precautionary landing
• Don't make a power-off choice when you have power
• How to land in a field
• Use flaps or not?
• Fly a tight pattern
• Richard Bach's "A Gift of Wings" story "The School for Perfection"

Theme Song: "Learn to Fly" by Josh Woodward Music on the CFIcast is from the Podshow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at http://music.podshow.com

Song: My Surname's An Airplane by Miranda Sound. Music on the Pilotcast is from the Podshow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at http://music.podshow.com

• Teaching flight instruction to challenged student pilots and students who are a challenge to teach.
• Flying airplanes with hand controls
• Should the CFI become familiar with operating with hand controls?
• How hard is it to learn flying with and controls?
• How many hours can it take for an experienced pilot or instructor to re-learn to fly with hand controls?
• Obtaining an airmen's medical certificate for challenged private pilots
• The S.O.D.A. - Statement Of Demonstrated Ability
• The CFI's responsibily in regards to the medical requirements
• The medical with "Limited to student pilot privileges only"
• What the Aviation Medical Examiner has to decide before issuing a certificate
• Scheduling the S.O.D.A. check with an examiner from the local FSDO (Flight District Standards Office) before the pilot checkride
• Some examples of medical issues discussed and how they can dealt with
• Paraplegic and quadroplegic students
• Visually impaired
• Dyslexia
• ADD
• Other learning disabilities
• Sending the student on the Sport Pilot checkride
• What kind of help can the challenged student get?
• Will the FAA want the student demonstrate any special tasks (like escaping the airpla ne) or have specific requiremets?
• How should the CFI evaluate a challenged student?
• A challenged student is much more motivated.
• Should the CFI can try to simulate the disability?
• An active WW II pilot ace who had lost both legs

• Has a CFI ever had a student who the CFI thought should give it up?
• Other issues with flight students
• A student not fluent in English
• A student with poor judgement
• A student who had a way higher opinion of his abilities than his instructors did
• Students who can't meet performance standards and always have excuses.
• How the CFI could avoid such students
• How can the CFI deal with such students

The CFIs and the Pilotcast pilots send sincere thanks to Pilot Will of the Pilot's Flight Podlog for the production of CFIcast #009.

Theme Song: "Learn to Fly" by Josh Woodward Music on the CFIcast is from the Podshow Podsafe Music Network. Check it out at http://music.podshow.com

• From Airventure Oshkosh 2007 Pilot Kent talks to Johnny Vermillion in the WW II Devil Dog North American B-25
  • The The Devil Dog Squadron
  • The Commemorative Air Force.

• The FAA has AD deals
• Winter flying
• Make sure you're prepared to survive in the cold.
Make sure you pack some survival gear
• Cellphone
• Extra blankets
• First Aid Kit
• Credit Card
• Personal Locator Beacon
• Handling the winter doldrums
• What to do during the winter when you can't fly
• Getting started in learning to fly.

The Pilotcast pilots send sincere thanks to Pilot Will of the Pilot's Flight Podlog for production of Pilotcast #61.

• Scott Dennstaedt on The Skew-T diagram to predict icing conditions
• Do CFIs teach flight in actual ice?
• Tools to evaluate icing conditions
• Should CFIs give student an exposure to actual ice?
• Should the CFI share a healthy respect and avoid ice with students?
• If the CFI demonstrates an ice encounter is the student likely to think an ice encounter is tolerable on try it on their own?
• If the student gets a scare from ice on a dual session
• Teaching a known ice capable aircraft.
• Appreciating students who do proper preparation.
• Teaching how to evaluate where the ice would be.
• Using weather products tools to find the ice.
• ADDS
• Recognize that the tools only give snapshots.
• The Skew-T diagram
• http://rucsoundings.noaa.gov
• What the CFI's ethical obligation to give students an exposure to ice?
• How do pilots evaluate their own competence?
• Teaching instrument students that they can't always expect to be able to fly.
• Can you teach the discipline and judgment required.
• Teaching the student what to do if they have an ice encounter.
• Can the CFI just brief the student on what to do in an ice encounter without giving an actual experience?<
• Will the simulator work to simulate ice?
• The aircraft's performance in ice is hard to predict. They aren't required to tested in ice.