EP191 - I'm Just Going Where He's Going
Ben is back from AirVenture and still hearing the Fisk arrival in his sleep. Two holds around the lakes, a push all the way back to Puckaway, and made it in on the third time, following an RV toward t...
28 Jul 59min
EP190 - Nothing Like the Real Thing
This week Ben, Brian, and Ted get into IFR currency: what it actually takes to stay instrument current and ready. Six approaches, holds, tracking and intercepting nav aids, and the clock that never st...
21 Jul 1h 6min
EP189 - Sport Pilot Extraordinaire
Sport pilots get treated as lesser pilots. This week the crew takes apart why, and why it does not hold up. The restrictions are real. The skill gap is not. After MOSAIC put Cessna 172s and Cherokees ...
14 Jul 1h 1min
EP188 - Go/No-Go: Honoring Your Minimums When Everyone Else Is Leaving
Ben's coming back to McCollum with his wife in the right seat and the winds at 340, 18 gusting 28, basically direct crosswind, and he's already named the two north-south runways he'll divert to if he ...
7 Jul 45min
EP187 - Information Whiskey: Super Scoopers, Springer Mountain & the Bachelorette Bravo
A whiskey episode, the non-format format where we catch up, work the live chat, and let it fly. Ted spots a pair of Canadair Super Scoopers fighting fires over Utah and IDs them on ADS-B in about ten ...
30 Jun 53min
EP186 - Risk It for the Biscuit: The $300 Hamburger
Avgas hit 8.85 a gallon, so the $100 hamburger is now a $300 hamburger, and if you're renting, congratulations, it's a $1,000 hamburger. Brian, Ben, and Ted dig into how midlifers actually keep flying...
23 Jun 1h 2min
EP185 - Flying the Long Way
You earned the ticket. Now what? Most VFR pilots get their certificate and then spend the next few years doing pattern laps and $100 hamburger runs, never quite working up the nerve for the big trip. ...
16 Jun 1h 1min
