The New Pilot PodBlog Ep #13 - The World's Greatest Aviation Adventure

Hello Everybody. This episode is my recollections and imperessions of my first trip to Oshkosh.

We spent 3 days at AirVenture, camping at Camp Scholler. I participated in Podapalooza on Friday night along with other aviation podcasters. This trip was very special for me since I was able to share my passion of aviation and my first trip to AirVenture with my sons. This was our first "boys" trip together and what a trip it was.

The one thing that I will take from this trip is how social media is helping to bring people together, especially the aviation community. I met many of my "social media" friends for the first time in person at Oshkosh. We have all become friendly through Twitter, forums and listening to each other's podcasts. Even before I arrived at Oshkosh I already had meetups scheduled with my friends. So instead of not knowing anyone there, I had parties and meetups to go to. This is what our small community is all about. Strangers coming together with a single, common interest and hanging out like we knew each other for years.

You can see my pictures from Oshkosh at http://www.flickr.com/photos/robertcigliano/sets/72157624676352535/

Some housekeeping,

• The URL for the web site has changed to be less of a mouthful, TheNewPilotPodBlog.com (removing blogspot from the name). The old URL will still work.
• I am using new equipment, a Behringer XM8500 microphone and Behringer Xenyx802 mixer. I hope the audio quality has improved. I plan to make some more equipment purchases. Please let me know if you hear any improvements.
• I also have finally created a logo. Please let me know what you think of it.

Shutouts:

Uncontrolled Airspace (uncontrolledairspace.com)

Jeb Burnside @burnsidej

Jack Hodgson @jackhodgson

Dave Higdon (twitterless)

Steve Tupper @StephenForce

Monika Petrillo @Flyabout

Twitter Friends

@juliewillfly
@adamcanfly
@PilotRob950
@TwiliteFlyer
@pilot2b
@PilotConway
@scofreyjet
@JHWellington
@rfelty

Pilot Tony from UCAP forums and myTransponder.

Podapalooza Participants

Pilots Journey Podcast (pilotjourneypodcast.com) @pilotsjourney

Stewart Stoll @CFIStew

Stuart Stevenson @PilotStu

Mike Hart @IDMike

Airplane Geeks (airplanegeeks.com)  @airplanegeeks

Rob Mark  @JetWhine

Pilotcast (pilotcast.com) @pilotcast

Ken Shook  @flyingcheezhead

Tiffany Wolf  @tiffanykwolf

Bill Williams  @billwil

AirPigz (airpigz.com)

Martt Clupper @AirPigz

Mile High Flyers (milehighflyers.com)

Nate Duehr @denverpilot

Mike Daniels @Mike_Flys

Elisabeth Daniels @LVMoxieGirl

Doug Hindman, Jr. @dhindmanjr

Special Shoutout to Zyola @Supovadea

Plane Crazy Down Under (planecrazydownunder.com) @pcdu (via recording)

Steve Visscher @stevevisscher

Grant McHerron @falcon124

myTransponder Team

Mike Miley @mike_miley

Rod Rakic @rodrakic

Jason Miller @OnTheFlightLine

Special Shoutout to my sons, Robert and Joey.

Thanks for listening.

Blues skies everyone!

You can reach me at TheNewPilotPodBlog@gmail.com
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The intro and closing song is John Mellencamp's My Aeroplane.

Direct access to the mp3 is here