PCDU Episodes List

Ten minutes of fame in a 737 Simulator?

By Grant (Falcon124), on January 21st, 2010%

The crew at Flight Experience Melbourne are having an Open Night on the 27th January and we’re going along. They’re giving away 10 minute sessions in their 737 sim to the first 20 people in the door (need to register before hand).

We’re going to be there to interview people for a future episode as well as have some fun (and enjoy the drinks & nibbles :)

If you’re in Melbourne, Australia and can get to the QV Building in the city from 6pm on the 27th January, you really should get yourself there. More information about the event and the registration form is available on their blog.

Hope to see you there :)

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  737, Facebook, Flight Experience, Free, fun, Melbourne, Party, simulator, Win  

Episode 23: Australia: A TSA free zone (for now)

By Grant (Falcon124), on January 15th, 2010%

Even down here in Australia we’re being impacted by the out-of-control antics of the TSA, so what the heck, we’ll have a bit of a c’est la vent moment about it. We also have our usual opinionated discussion on some other news items and chat with Shashank Nigam from SimpliFlying.

Here’s how the show proceeds:

As usual, our theme music track is “YouNameIt5″ by Brian Simpson (aka t3cat5) and our sound effects come from SoundSnap.com.

 
 PCDU Episode 023 [96:44m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | Download (1013)
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  A380, Air New Zealand, AirAsia, Amadeus, Antarctica, Aviation History, Avro Avian, c'est la vent, callsign, CME, Constellation, Coronal Mass Ejection, disestablished, Garuda Indonesia, Go Cat, GPS, Guy Menzies, Jack Seymour, Jetstar, Jetstar Pacifiic, Joint Venture, L-1049, Mawson, Mile High Flyers, Pilot's Flight Podlog, QANTAS, Rockhampton, Shashank Nigam, SimpliFlying, Student Flight, Tiger Airways, TSA, Vickers, Vietnam  

iTunes Feed Glitch

By Grant (Falcon124), on January 3rd, 2010%

Some of you may have experienced some problems downloading from our feed lately. This was all thanks to updating to the latest version of the PodPress plugin, unfortunately. It seems the latest version didn’t mix well with our site and started sending out broken URLs to each episode’s MP3 file in our RSS feed (we’re not the only ones to have experienced this).

The problem was fixed by rolling back to the previous version of the plugin, but for about 4 to 6 hours around New Years’ Day the feed was broken (episode description text was fine but the episodes wouldn’t download).

If you’re still experiencing a problem downloading our episodes, make sure you’ve got the latest version of the feed in your system. In iTunes, this means right-clicking (or cmd-clicking :) on the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast entry and selecting “Update Podcast.” This will force iTunes to download the most recent copy of the RSS feed file.

Once that’s done, retry the broken download and it should all work nicely.

Meanwhile, I’m waiting for a fix from the PodPress developer and will, in future, try not to be amongst the first to try out a new version of a plugin :)

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  download, failure, fault, Feed, fix, iTunes, PodPress, repair, RSS  

We’re interviewed on Erk Pod

By Grant (Falcon124), on January 1st, 2010%

In the relatively quiet time between Christmas & New Year, Erk from the Erk Pod podcast bravely travelled down from Sydney to Melbourne, seeking sites to enjoy, experiences to be had and southern podcasters to interview. Having found PCDU a few months earlier, Erk asked if we wanted to be interviewed about the podcast, how it came to be and what’s involved in keeping it running. Who were we to say no to some publicity? :)

The results can be found at Erk Pod Episode 236 and it’s worth listening to for some insight into what goes into making PCDU is produced each week.

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  Erk, ErkPod, Interview