Steve, Grant and Maikha were on-site at Avalon recording plenty of content and this episode is our first collection of audio content covering some of the companies, people and aircraft we encountered while there. Steve &amp; Grant have already started editing the next batch of content for Episode 131 and Maikha’s starting to wade through […]

PCDU Episode 130: Avalon 2017 – Alpha

Steve &amp; Grant have both been back to school in the past week with Steve revisiting his old high school (Brentwood Secondary College and yes, it’s still standing) where they have a great aviation curriculum. Meanwhile, Grant’s been out to Bacchus Marsh airport to the TVSA flying school’s open day. This one’s a short episode […]

PCDU Episode 129: Going Back to School

From Grant’s collection of ballooning interviews to a chat with Owen Zupp about his latest book and our tribute to Hannes Arch, this episode is our biggest yet (yes, even bigger than Episode 51, our tribute to the RAAF’s F-111s!). We’ve even captured Anthony “The Infrequent Flyer” Simmons’ first ever viewing of the movie TopGun […]

PCDU Episode 128: Unprecedented

We’ve gone back into our archives to pull out some great content that we never got around to releasing before. We have some more interviews from Avalon 2015 (yes, we recorded lots didn’t we? :) ) and we also have WGCDR Tim Alsop (now a GPCAPT :) ) walking us through planning &amp; implementing an […]

PCDU Episode 127: From the Vault

They say patience is a virtue and hopefully our audience has plenty of it because it’s been a while since our last episode was released. Fortunately we’ve been able to make some time available to record content, edit it and get this episode into the feed. For this one Steve &amp; Grant are joined by […]

PCDU Episode 126: Emirates Wants You!

Avalon Charlie

Welcome back to our coverage of the 2015 Australian International Air Show (aka Avalon Airshow) with our third release of content recorded at show. It’s been a while since the last episode and we’re sorry for that but as with many labours of love &amp; fun, life gets in the way and paying the rent, […]

PCDU Episode 125: Avalon Charlie (The Avalon Airshow Goodness Continues)

Avalon15 Bravo

The Australian International Airshow (aka Avalon Airshow) may well be over for 2015 but our collection of content recorded at the show is still being worked on. Here’s another hour of interviews &amp; discussions and we suspect there may be another two episodes before we’re through with all of it. This is what happens when […]

PCDU Episode 124: Avalon15 Bravo (Yet more Avalon Airshow Goodness)

The Australian International Airshow (aka Avalon Airshow) is held every two years and runs for 6 days with the first 3 being trade-only. The 4th day of the show is always on a Friday and the public start coming in around midday then stay for the night show, a feature of Avalon for well over […]

PCDU Episode 123: Avalon15 Alpha (It’s Avalon Airshow Time :) )

As the final hours of 2014 draw to a close, we’re getting our last episode for 2014 out the door. The boys have been kept pretty busy with their day jobs lately but, despite this, they’ve managed to do some flying: Grantâ€™s been taking friends on their first balloon flights including Evan Schoo and Darren […]

PCDU Episode 122: Farewell 2014

During August, Grant spent a week in Darwin covering Exercise Pitch Black 2014, a major multinational “war game” exercise hosted by the Royal Australian Air Force. Held every two years, Pitch Black is Australia’s version of the Red Flag training exercises held in the USA and in 2014 the RAAF was joined by forces from […]

PCDU Episode 121: Exercise Pitch Black 2014

Looking at the world of aviation from an Australia / Pacific point of view

I&#39;ve been listening to Grant and Steven for almost two years and enjoy their reporting and very strange Aussie humor.  They cover Pacific air routes as well as &#34;Down Under&#34; aviation. They are a hoot to follow and have a segment on another great podcast, Aviation Geeks.  Even if you aren&#39;t a pilot, you&#39;ll enjoy this mad cap romp through the Aussie world of aviation. Cheers! Jamie

Fun Aussie Podcast!

These guys are informative, funny and well produced. They really love flying, are committed to providing content on nearly all sectors of the industry and provide a unique perspective with the Aussie point of view. Would highly recommend.

An alternative perspective

Plane Crazy Down Under

PAPER

In our third &amp; final Election QuickCast, we take a look at the published transportation policies from the The Greens and the Labor Party’s “Aviation White Paper.” Sadly, Christine Milne from the Greens and Anthony Albanese from Labor were unable to accommodate us in their busy schedules. Both groups have indicated that they’ll be happy […]

PCDU Episode 41: Australian Federal Election QuickCast #3: Comments on the Greens & Labor’s White Paper

We recorded a lecture presented by Lang Kidby at the Australian National Aviation Museum (Moorabbin Air Museum) about flying a Vickers Vimy replica aircraft from England to Australia to re-enact the 1919 flight by Keith &amp; Ross Macpherson Smith and an Avro Avian from England to Australia to re-enact Bert Hinkler's completion of the first solo flight from England to Australia in 1928.

PCDU Episode 14: Lang’s Great Journeys

Steve &amp; Grant go north of Melbourne thanks to the aid of some members of Team PCDU, both current &amp; new. First up we tag along with ATC_Ben on his visit to Oshkosh 2012, discussing his journey there &amp; listening to a few of the interviews he recorded (yes, we're still jealous we couldn't get there!). We then introduce long-time listener Damien Rose who's joining us as our Queensland correspondent &amp; lives about 2,000km north of PCDU HQ. Finally, we play a few of the interviews Steve &amp; Grant recorded at Oshkosh 2011 to help us feel a bit better about not being there this year (nope, still jealous! :)

PCDU Episode 95: Northern Exposure

We still have some Avalon 2013 coverage not yet released so we decided to produce a single episode dedicated to the C17 as there were multiple RAAF C17s and a USAF C17 present on the final day. In keeping with our previous Avalon 2013 episodes, this one is under an hour and gathers the following […]

PCDU Episode 107: Avalon 2013 – Globemaster Central

A few episodes ago we introduced Kathy Mexted as a new member our group of occasional PCDU contributors and this episode she’s back with some great content. She recently took a few friends in a Bonanza out to Wilpena Pound in South Australia, a trip that would usually take many days to achieve by road […]

PCDU Episode 76: Air Wilpena

Helene Young

[Kathy Mexted joins Steve &amp; Grant to interview Helene Young, a Dash-8 pilot who's written three great books based around pilots flying for Australia's border patrol in the far north of Queensland. In addition to being a captain with the regionals, Helene has managed to juggle her home &amp; social life with work and writing, producing three great books in a relatively short period of time.We also have interviews with Peter Sobey (Chief Flying Instructor at Sharp Airlines) and Chris Dewhirst (first man to fly a balloon over Mt Everest) along with a brand new View From the Lounge segment (also about balloons).

[Kathy Mexted joins Steve &amp; Grant to interview Helene Young, a Dash-8 pilot who's written three great books based around pilots flying for Australia's border patrol in the far north of Queensland. In addition to being a captain with the regionals, Helene has managed to juggle her home &amp; social life with work and writing, producing three great books in a relatively short period of time. We also have interviews with Peter Sobey (Chief Flying Instructor at Sharp Airlines) and Chris Dewhirst (first man to fly a balloon over Mt Everest) along with a brand new View From the Lounge segment (also about balloons).

PCDU Episode 92: Helene Young – A Novel Approach to Flying

We open this episode having a chat with James Williams of the LifeStyle PodNetwork, Australia’s global podcast network. We are very happy to announce that we’ve been invited to join and we talk with James about the network, why they invited us to join and what it means to be a part of their community […]

PCDU Episode 68: Flyabout to Memory Lane

The first aircraft to be used in Antarctica was Henry Mawson’s Vickers REP monoplane. Sadly, it had been damaged in Australia before arriving in Antarctica and was used as an “air tractor” to pull sleds. Even that didn’t work out and it was dumped, eventually being found again only recently. Given that inauspicious start, it’s […]

PCDU Episode 30: Antarctica: The Last True Wilderness

Despite the annoying habit of our “day jobs” and families encroaching into our PCDU time, we’ve finally managed to get some time to record an episode. Steve even managed a marathon effort of post production to edit a coherent episode from our opinionated news discussion and an interview with Saj Ahmad. Go Steve! :) Despite […]

PCDU Episode 24: Misuse of Accents

Bill Hamilton

While the technology behind ADS-B is nothing new, it is becoming the centerpiece of modern Air Traffic Management systems around the world. Unfortunately, CASA is once again taking a global concept and creating an entirely unique Australian implementation of it. According to CASA’s Discussion Paper (DP) 1006AS Proposed Strategy and Regulatory Plan in support of […]

PCDU Episode 48: ADS-B: C’est un petard! – with Bill Hamilton

In November of 2012 the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) decommissioned their C-130H fleet, transitioning to the C-130J and reaching the end of an era for flight engineers &amp; navigators in the Air Lift Group (ALG). We were fortunate enough to be invited to partake in some of the decommissioning events including a final media flight over Sydney Harbour, watching a formation flyby practice from RAAF Base Richmond's control tower and the delivery of C-130H A97-011 to the RAAF Museum at Point Cook.In the course of these events we obtained a number of great interviews with past &amp; present air crew which are gathered here in our tribute episode to the C-130H in RAAF service.

In November of 2012 the Royal Australian Air Force (RAAF) decommissioned their C-130H fleet, transitioning to the C-130J and reaching the end of an era for flight engineers &amp; navigators in the Air Lift Group (ALG). We were fortunate enough to be invited to partake in some of the decommissioning events including a final media flight over Sydney Harbour, watching a formation flyby practice from RAAF Base Richmond's control tower and the delivery of C-130H A97-011 to the RAAF Museum at Point Cook. In the course of these events we obtained a number of great interviews with past &amp; present air crew which are gathered here in our tribute episode to the C-130H in RAAF service.

PCDU Episode 99: RAAF C-130H – Into History

It’s time once again for the Australian International Airshow and Aerospace &amp; Defence Exposition (aka Avalon 2011) and Team PCDU are there to arrange interviews with people &amp; organisations that catch our eye. On the third day of the show we have been particularly busy interviewing aircrew, maintainers and other folks on site, frequently while […]

PCDU Episode 56: Avalon Quick Cast #3

These days it’s quite common to find ladies in command of commercial airliners, bizjets and combat aircraft. Thirty years ago, however, this was certainly not the case here in Australia and a female required a stubborn streak &amp; thick skin to push through and gain acceptance in a very male dominated world. While the situation […]

PCDU Episode 35: Perseverance & Persistence

Aviation in Australia is experiencing a difficult time and General Aviation is especially being hit hard. User fees are continuing to increase, rules are being changed and airports are being shutdown or reduced in size due to encroachment by non-aviation construction. We’re joined in this episode by Ben Morgan from Aviation Advertiser to discuss these […]

PCDU Episode 62: Advertising Advocacy

After a long break from the show, Ben Ippolito (aka ATC Ben) returns in this packed episode to tell us about getting current again, wrap up the Tyabb airshow and answer some of your ATC questions. Our Tyabb coverage includes:Matt Hall Mark Pracy talking about the Reno crash The formation &amp; operation of the Southern Knights ATC Ben talks about re-gaining proficiency and ATC Q&amp;A sessionWe also introduce a new sponsor (OzRunways) and with lots of airshows coming up, we're looking for more :)

After a long break from the show, Ben Ippolito (aka ATC Ben) returns in this packed episode to tell us about getting current again, wrap up the Tyabb airshow and answer some of your ATC questions. Our Tyabb coverage includes: <ul><li>Matt Hall</li> <li>Mark Pracy talking about the Reno crash</li> <li>The formation &amp; operation of the Southern Knights</li> <li>ATC Ben talks about re-gaining proficiency and ATC Q&amp;A session</li></ul>We also introduce a new sponsor (OzRunways) and with lots of airshows coming up, we're looking for more :)

PCDU Episode 85: Tyabb Air Show 2012 & ATC Ben Answers Your Questions

We review a stack of news items &amp; Bas Scheffers returns to talk to us about some more RA-Aus issues.

PCDU Episode 15: And now for something completely different, here is the news

It’s been a while since we got down &amp; dirty with the Australian commercial airline scene so with that in mind, we called up Ben Sandlilands from the PlaneTalking blog on Crikey.com.au for a chat. There’s some amazing developments going on in the “big iron” side of people moving here in Australia and we went […]

It’s been a while since we got down &amp; dirty with the Australian commercial airline scene so with that in mind, we called up Ben Sandlilands from the PlaneTalking blog on <a href="http://Crikey.com.au" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Crikey.com.au</a> for a chat. There’s some amazing developments going on in the “big iron” side of people moving here in Australia and we went […]

PCDU Episode 66: That Wasn’t in the Script!

Anthony Crichton-Browne

Today we’re joined by Anthony Crichton-Browne, a commercial airline pilot who also likes to take his Pitts Special out for a spin (and a few other fun manoeuvres :) In addition to chatting with Anthony, we also run a chat with Grant Piper (President of the Australian Aerobatic Club) about Australia’s recent involvement in the […]

PCDU Episode 75: Talking Aerobatics with Anthony Crichton-Browne

Thanks to OzRunways, Steve was able to get to Adelaide to cover the Parafield Airshow 2012.  He &amp; Bas recorded a number of interviews, including: Chris Sperou The Roulettes Tammy Augostin David Hales from 5DMEAnd much more, including Pieter Johnson's next "From Up Here to Down There" segment and an update from the B24 Liberator Restoration Project.

Thanks to OzRunways, Steve was able to get to Adelaide to cover the Parafield Airshow 2012. He &amp; Bas recorded a number of interviews, including: <ul><li>Chris Sperou</li> <li>The Roulettes</li> <li>Tammy Augostin</li> <li>David Hales from 5DME</li></ul>And much more, including Pieter Johnson's next "From Up Here to Down There" segment and an update from the B24 Liberator Restoration Project.

PCDU Episode 86: One Fine Day at Parafield

Every two years Avalon Airport is the home to one of the biggest airshows &amp; aviation expositions in the Southern Hemisphere (the biggest, according to many). One of Australia’s premier aviation events, Avalon Airshow (also known as the Australian International Airshow) draws aircraft from around the world and attracts scores of people from the general […]

PCDU Episode 52: The Misty Dawn of Avalon

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