"Rocket Surgeons" UCAP1104-echo

"Rocket Surgeons" UCAP1104-echo

Author: Jack Hodgson & Jeb Burnside April 9, 2025 Duration: 6:10
Jeb and Jack chat on Monday after Sun n Fun 2025, wrapping up the week's activities, and planning for the future. On the Uncontrolled Airspace Podcast. Recorded April 7, 2025. (15:06) [#755] {1}

There’s a particular sound that defines Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast, and it’s not just the hum of a Lycoming engine. It’s the sound of relaxed, informed conversation between friends who happen to know a tremendous amount about flying. Hosts Jack Hodgson and Jeb Burnside gather the UCAP crew three times each month, turning microphones into a virtual pilots’ lounge where everything related to GA is fair game for discussion. What you’ll hear in this podcast isn’t a stiff, procedural briefing but the kind of direct, opinionated, and often humorous hangar-flying that happens after the aircraft is put away. The topics naturally wander wherever the winds of aviation news, safety, regulations, and personal experience take them, all delivered with a plain-spoken clarity that both new students and seasoned pilots can appreciate. Tuning in feels less like attending a seminar and more like pulling up a chair to listen in on some of general aviation’s most knowledgeable characters swapping stories and insights. It’s that regular, grounded conversation, free from pretense, that has made this podcast a longstanding favorite for anyone who finds their peace-and their passion-somewhere between the runway and the sky.
Author: Language: English Episodes: 773

Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
Podcast Episodes
"Down By the River" UCAP #369 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:24:02
Guest: Amy Laboda. Sky surfing... More on the Chi Center fire... Flying the Canadian loop... Barn Find Messerschmitt...Jeb's visit to the final 2014 AOPA fly-in... All this and more on the Uncontrolled Airspace General A…
"Look It's Me!" UCAP #367 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:24:17
"Thunderbirds Are Go"... Tethered Aerostats... Something that scares Ag Pilots... Airbus Bomb-burst... OK, Jeb was right... Thoughts on the ADS-B mandate... "Huge" drone crashes... Centennial of Air Warfare Fatalities...…
"Legendary Sigh" UCAP #366 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:13:41
Weird stuff on the bottom of the southern ocean... Remembering Jerrie Mock ... Mishap at Chicago Center.. ADS-B Summit... Who investigates UL crashes?... All this and more on the Uncontrolled Airspace General Aviation Po…
"Davy, can you hear me?" UCAP #365 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:17:02
Weaponized Cessnas... Jack and Dave visit Stearman Field... Wearables in the cockpit?... A cool and big amphib... Game of Drones... All this and more on the Uncontrolled Airspace General Aviation Podcast. Recorded Septem…
"Replicant" UCAP #364 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:17:02
Welcoming back Dave Higdon who missed Oshkosh... A sorta-replica Wright Flyer is being built... One last look back at OSH14... An OFLOTW on a narrow street... FAA Shenanigans... A mysterious F-15 crash... All this and mo…
"Bittersweet" UCAP #363 [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 1:18:43
It's closing morning of AirVenture 2014. Jeb and Jack are joined by Amy Laboda, Jeff Ward, James Wynbrandt, and Ric Reynolds to review the activities of this bitter-sweet year in Oshkosh. All this and more on the Uncontr…
"East Wind" UCAP #361-india [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 5:31
In this final UCAP Daily from OSH14, Jack and Jeb spend a few final minutes out on the grass beside Jeb's plane, recalling the events of this (mostly) great year at AirVenture 2014. All this and more on the Uncontrolled…
"Pulling Rivets" UCAP #361-hotel [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:13
Jeb and Jack return to the One Week Wonder tent to talk with UCAP pal and OWW chief cook and coffee getter, Charlie Becker. Update on OWW and what's in the future... Jack say the Osprey... Big crowds... Balloons... All t…
"Dogbag & FOD" UCAP #361-golf [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 20:10
Jack and Jeb are joined by the Airspeed podcast's Steve Tupper and his son Nick (aka Dogbag and FOD) to review Friday at AirVenture 2014. Thunderbirds... Don Weaver's Acro forum session... Jeb's meetup with Senator Inhof…
"A Reddish Herring" UCAP #361-foxtrot [not-audio_url] [/not-audio_url]

Duration: 19:16
Jeff Ward joins us to review Thursday at AirVenture 2014. The Thuderbirds arrive... The FAA Admininstrator talks about 3rd Class Medicals... And we review the UCAP Tiedown Party. All this and more on the Uncontrolled Air…