Maxwell's House 59

Maxwell's House Episode 59

Hosts: Leo Laporte and Ray Maxwell Topic: Midair Collisions of Aircraft Recorded: February 11, 2010 Published: February 16, 2010 Duration: 54:25 Transcript Previous episode – Next episode

Contents 1 Guests 2 Topics 3 Websites 4 Sponsors 5 Production Information

Guests

Topics

1. Capturing Color with a Digital Camera…next week.

2. Etymotic…hf2

3. Toyota Recall…I hope we avoid mass hysteria.

4. “Ice Pilots NWT”… http://www.icepilots.com/

1. Go to Epsodes…scroll down to “Full Episodes Online”
2. http://www.buffaloairways.com/

5. Glider, Piper Pawnee, and Cirrus SR20 mid-air in Colorado

1. Schweizer 2-32…a three-place glider being towed by a Piper Pawnee…a single seat plane used for towing and crop dusting. The towplane and glider were proceeding on a westerly heading…traveling at about 70 mph. Glider had orange and yellow high visibility stripes.
2. A Cirrus SR20 four place composite airplane with two people in it were flying on a Southern heading. Cruise is approximately 160 mph.
3. The Glider had taken off from the Bolder Municipal airport.
4. Visibility was 9 miles…Cirrus would take more than 3 minutes to cover that distance.
5. It was planning a climb to 10,500 ft. The Airport is 5,200 ft.
6. The Cirrus impacted the right side of the Pawnee towplane at approximately 8,000 ft. ASL…3,000 ft. AGL
7. Glider pilot reported that both airplanes were in S&L flight and made no turns or pull ups.
8. Glider pilot released and pull up and right and flew through the fire ball. Passenger said she felt heat on face.
9. Glider called MayDay and returned safely to the airport.
10. Accident data base…www.ntsb.gov
    1. “Aviation”… Accident Database & Synopses
11. Aircraft towing a banner or glider has right of way over other aircraft.
12. Cirrus would be more than 45 degrees behind straight ahead.
13. Pawnee and Glider would be less than 30 degrees off straight ahead for the Cirrus.
14. The Cirrus has a glass cockpit.
    1. Easier to fly in IFR
15. The Cirrus had a airframe parachute.
    1. 20 deployments
    2. cirruspilots.org
    3. Cirrus Aircraft Safety
    4. Cirrus Airframe Parachute system CAPS History
    5. http://www.cirruspilots.org/content/CAPSHistory.aspx

6. Airspace

1. Positive control airspace
   1. Radio required
   2. Altitude encoding transponder
   3. TCAS…Traffic collision Avoidance System
   4. Future systems will have GPS
2. Areas around large airports
3. Inverted wedding cake
4. Areas around medium airports
5. All aircraft above 18,000 ft. are under positive control
6. Uncontrolled airspace…see and avoid
7. Notams for areas
8. Frequencies to broadcast on
9. Right of way…approaching…on right…overtaken aircraft
10. Balloons have right of way
11. Gliders have right of way
12. Airplanes towing gliders or banners
13. Airplanes and helicopters have equal rights

7. Capturing Color with a Digital Camera.

1. Bayer pattern
2. Linear with regard to energy
3. Raw vs. JPEG
4. Controls that effect RAW

Websites

Sponsors

• AudiblePodcast.com/house
• ad times: 00:00:35-00:00:47 and 00:35:14-00:38:16

Production Information

• Edited by: Erik
• Notes:

This area is for use by TWiT staff only. Please do not add or edit any content within this section.