AirVenture Oshkosh 2011 was an incredible experience for the team from PCDU,one that we’re all still getting over. There was so much to do &see and so many wonderful people to meet,naturally we weren’t able to do all we would have liked to. One of the tasks we had that fell by the wayside in the rush was putting out daily updates. Maybe if Grant could have found some RedBull on site,they might have made it out each day:)
Now that we’re back in Australia,we’re being kept pretty busy catching up with our families,getting back on top of everything at our “day jobs”and working through all the content we’ve gathered. It’s going to take a few months to get it all completed,but we’re working on it as best we can:)
You can find the daily reports in our PCDU Commentaries blog as we’ll be creating an Oshkosh 2011 Summary page as we did for Avalon 2011. For now,we have a few of the daily reports completed and loading episodes featuring the additional Oshkosh content we’ve not already released.
It is our intention to cover Oshkosh from a “down under”perspective to the best of our ability. We’ll be looking for the Aussie/Kiwi angle from attendees to volunteers to businesses to government agencies. We plan to produce three episodes during the week of the show and provide constant coverage on our home page,at Aviation Advertiser and through various social media portals. This will include a mixture of audio,video and photographs,presented with the aim of giving you a genuine feel for the spectacle that is AirVenture 2011. As was the case with our Avalon 2011 coverage,we anticipate several follow up episodes featuring additional content after the event. Steve will also be travelling to Arkansas,the place where he completed the bulk of his flight training,to collect interviews with some of the people that influenced his passion for aviation.
We would like to offer our audience the chance to give us some indications of what you’d like to see,hear and (virtually) experience about Oshkosh while we’re over there. By posting your own comments on our updates,you can give us some direction and we’ll try to come through for you if we can.
Joining us at Oshkosh will be Bas Scheffers and David Vanderhoof as well as Mike Wilson who is going to help us with transport,camera and other technical work. We’ve received some amazing sponsorship from Pracy Racing and Jetride Australia who have covered our airfares to Chicago and back (thanks guys!!!!:) while Aviation Advertiser is chipping in to help cover a lot of the accommodation and food costs while we’re there. This has helped immensely but we’re still going to be out of pocket a rather large amount and we’d like to chip in some $$$ to say THANKS to our friends who’ll be helping us while they’re there.
If you’d like to help ensure we can get the coverage you want to hear,feel free to chip in some $$$ via the DONATE button on our home page. We’ve already received a few “Go hard!”packages from friends and every little bit helps. The more we get the more chances we have of being able to run around &pump out the content you want to hear,read &see.
As always,we are not entirely comfortable asking our audience for donations,however,this is a huge undertaking which may exceed the generous funding levels of our wonderful sponsors. In this unique instance,we ask you to consider the substantial effort we put into this programme,entirely on our own time,and give away each month at no cost. We believe our product compares favourably to monthly print publications,yet for less than the cost of a magazine you can help us achieve our goals on your behalf. Your financial assistance for this series of shows would be greatly and humbly appreciated.
We’re really looking forward to this and no matter what,we’re going to bring you along for the ride:)
Meanwhile,here’s the latest animated video from our friends at Thromby Airlines about their foray into online media and podcasters. We hope you enjoy it and recommend you visit their site for more great Thromby Air fun.
Thanks to a generous offer from Team Pracy (see JetRide Australia,Aircraft Imports and Pracy Racing),we’re going to be at Oshkosh 2011 for the whole week. We’re also picking up some additional sponsorship and assistance from other groups,including the fine folks at Aviation Advertiser,to help cover the costs of setting up camp on site (yes,we’ll be camping on the field in the midst of the action:)
In addition to Steve &Grant,Bas Scheffers will also be at Oshkosh 2011 as he’s had his tickets &plans locked in for a very long time. We’re also going to be joined by David Vanderhoof,our code-sharing historian who also appears on the Airplane Geeks podcast. In fact,for a while we thought Bas &David were going to be the sole PCDU representatives at the show.
Suffice to say we’re very excited to be going and so long as our heads don’t explode with the torrent of aviation joy surrounding us,you can expect to get heaps of Oshkosh content with a Down Under perspective as Plane Crazy Down Under embarks on the “Up &Over to Oshkosh”tour:)
We never made it to the Podapalooza event at Oshkosh 2010 although we did try and a recording of our attempt was played for everyone there. As many of you may know,a recording of the entire event was capture and has been circulated on a few of the podcasts that were there. In each case the podcast adding the podapalooza entry to their feed has made their own intro to it covering their own perspectives on the event.
We thought about doing the same but figured that most of you have probably already heard it from the other feeds. Rather than add yet another download of the same content to your already overloaded stash of podcasts,we’re going to follow the Airplane Geeks’lead and point you at places to get it if you haven’t already heard it:
The PilotCast (Podapalooza was started by the original hosts of The PilotCast)
The Pilots Journey (this one has a great summary of who was on the show)
So go &check it out if you haven’t already heard it and by the way,be sure and listen to all those podcasts we’ve listed there if you’re not already (as well as all the others we list in our podcasts we like section:).
Air Venture:Oshkosh is the place to be if you’re into aviation. There’s something for everyone from home builts to military to warbirds to commercial to seaplanes to antiques to balloons and everything else imaginable. If you love aviation,you have to get to Oshkosh.
For the past four years a group of aviation podcasters have been gathering to produce the “Podapalooza”session. Imagine a room full of people and a table at one end packed with many of the people behind the voices in your head. All hanging out,talking about flying,aviation topics and social media. Pure podcasting fun:)
Since we started Plane Crazy Down Under,we’ve tried twice but never been able to make it to Oshkosh. Back in 2009,Stephen Force of the Airspeed podcast took a quick “Hello Oshkosh”piece we produced and had it played at the Podapalooza and on the EAA radio show during the event.
This year we couldn’t make it again (DOH!) so we put another promo together. It’s longer but encapsulates what we’ve been up to for the past year. They played part of it at the Podapalooza so we’re adding the original piece to our feed so you can hear how we tried to get there but couldn’t quite make it.
Maybe 2011 will be “third time’s the charm”and we’ll get there at last?:)
A recent event at Oshkosh has been the Podapalooza “gathering of aviation podcasters”where attendees get to meet some of the voices in their heads. Much as we would have loved to go to Oshkosh this year and attend Podapalooza,it’s a long long way to swim from down here so all we could do was listen to the other podcasters talking about how they were going and gnash our teeth while trying not to stomp on our iPods.
Fortunately for us,Stephen Force of the Airspeed podcast told us he was willing to smuggle in a short “Hey there”piece for us and get it played at the event. Well,not only was he able to smuggle it in,he even got it played on EAA radio. Wow! Thanks Steve –yet more beers we owe you when we meet!
For those of you who,like us,couldn’t be there and couldn’t listen to the live feed,here’s the little greeting we recorded for everyone at Podapalooza 2009.
