Podcast: Play in new window | Download (49.5MB)

Jack Suchocki (a former Eastern Airlines Captain) is President of Eyewitness Animations. They create professional forensic animations and courtroom graphics, including aviation accident reconstruction. These are used for investigations and litigation. An example is the Asiana 214 crash video they produced. The animations are accurate with respect to the events, scale, and time. Clients include U.S. Government agencies, industry manufacturers and organizations, television networks, and many others.

We talk about where the data comes from for these animations constructed on personal computers and how they are used in accident litigation.

The week’s aviation news:

• A New Order, and Announcing a Further Delay – What it Means for the CSeries?

• Abu Dhabi Plans Aviation Biofuel Project

• AWWA Sky Whale Plane Could Be The Future Of Air Travel (And It’s Utterly Massive)

• United to furlough 688 junior flight attendants

• SNA 2014: Heat From F-35, MV-22 Continue to Plague Big Deck Amphibs

• Flight Training, a GA Pilot and a Goose

David Vanderhoof’s Aircraft of the Week: the Douglas DC-9.

In this week’s Australia Desk:

• Qantas copping a US$90k fine for not a form of tarmac stranding

• Qantas pulls their 737s out of Hobart & sticks to 717s

• Air India 787 lines up on Essendon GA airport instead of Melbourne airport

• Things get even more kooky with the new Toowoomba airport, starting with its name. (Damien Rose used to live in Toowoomba and knows the area well.)

Find more from Grant and Steve at the Plane Crazy Down Under podcast, and follow the show on Twitter at @pcdu. Steve’s at @stevevisscher and Grant at @falcon124.

In this week’s Across the Pond segment:

Pieter talks to Jesús Calderon, Air Traffic Controller in the Barcelona Tower about recent changes to airfield procedures, why he is taking his ATPL exams in London and why Barcelona has been busier than Madrid this summer. We also get an insight into what an Air Traffic Controller thinks about when he takes a commercial flight as a passenger.

Find Jesús on Facebook, Pieter on Twitter as @Nascothornet, on Facebook at XTPMedia, and at the Aviation Xtended podcast.

Mentioned:

• Aviation Geek Fest 2014 [SOLD OUT]

• 5 Years Later, Still Feeling Impact of Plane Down in the Hudson

• Zach Sherwin – “Goose MCs” (5th Anniversary of the Miracle on the Hudson)

• This New Ocean

• Close call as ice rained from sky at Annadel

Opening and closing music courtesy Brother Love from the Album Of The Year CD. You can find his great music at www.brotherloverocks.com.