EP127 - Big Texas Send Live from T82: Between Two Wheelpants

EP127 - Big Texas Send Live from T82: Between Two Wheelpants

The Midlife Pilot Podcast hosts the Big Texas Send fly in at T82 in Fredericksburg, TX and lands with a thud (but "didn't dent the runway") at the gorgeous TAC Aero hangar. Ben, Brian, and Ted swap harrowing journey tales involving everything from Brian's "measured scud running" to Ted mysteriously ascending to 15,000 feet in a light sport ("Try a German-engineered plane built in Ukraine!"). While celebrating their adrenaline-junkie passenger Hope flying with Ted and losing a bird-strike battle with Ted's wheel pants ("Suicidal Sparrow would be a good band name"), the crew raises their glasses to those who made the toughest decision of all—not flying. As Brian says about the fly-in pressure, "We never actually have to fly anywhere, ever...except for this Sunday because we don't have hotels anymore." Between "advanced VFR flying" (which apparently means "leave the day before") and zip-tie engineering miracles, episode 127 captures why aviation friendships are "like meeting family for the first time, except you like them."


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Thanks To:

  • Chris and the TAC Aero team

  • Hope from the Hangar Hotel (the adrenaline junkie who survived Ted's wheel pants departure)

  • Erica Gilbert for her weather briefings

  • Richard (Yankee 88) for his safe no-go decision ("congratulations on not flying here")

  • Mike (Alpha Golf) for his safe no-go decision

  • Louis for his safe aircraft choice (opting for A/C over his shiny new Carbon Cub)

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