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 my best efforts to drone on endlessly, Steve’s also managed to keep the episode under 2 hours, but not by much. Hopefully this will give you heaps of fun listening as you travel to & from work, mow the lawns or do your household chores :)

Here’s how the show came together this time:

• Robinson R44 crashes on a mountain beside a massive drop
• Men uninjured after chopper crash (Jeremy Sollars @ Lismore Northern Star via Warwick Daily News)
• Chopper incident ‘not so dramatic’ (Damian Bathersby @ Sunshine Coast Daily)
• Three men dodge death after their helicopter crash lands on the edge of a canyon ridge… two feet from a one mile drop
• Tiger’s IPO closes over subscribed – oh wow!
• Tiger Air offering overcomes doubts (Kevin Brown @ Financial Times)
• Blue skies for Tiger? (Stephen Bartholomeusz @ Business Spectator)
• Backing at home for Tiger Airways (Steve Creedy @ The Australian)
• Tiger IPO closes fully subscribed (Australian Aviation)
• Australia’s “self-serve” passport gates not working well
• Self-serve passport gates ‘easy to cheat’ (Monique Ross @ ABCNews)
• SmartGate passport hits 1m milestone (Sydney Morning Herald)
• Lie down all the way to LA: Air NZ (Thanks to Mike for pointing out the article)
• RNZAF aerobatic team lose a pilot in a training crash
• DEATH OF AIRMAN – 3RD STATEMENT (Press Release from RNZAF)
• RNZAF loses pilot in Red Checkers crash (Australian Aviation)
• Pilot doused burning plane wreck (Michael Forbes @ The Dominion Post)
• Brother...