EP138 - Cargo Pants Season and $70 Friends: CFII Nathan Ballard Answers Feedback (Ted Live from Oshkosh)
The crew tackles listener Zach R's dilemma about "feeding our souls and starving our wallets" when it comes to aviation passion. Ted broadcasts live from under his airplane wing at Oshkosh (complete w...
22 Jul 202558min
EP137 - OG Chris Returns! Taking Aviation Breaks Without Guilt
After a year-long aviation hiatus, the legend himself returns! Chris Moran, the original midlife pilot who started it all, is back in the cockpit and spilling the raw truth about what happens when lif...
15 Jul 20251h 1min
EP136 - Information Whiskey: The Tool in the Plane is Us
In this Information Whiskey session, Ben achieves peak midlife status by straining his back loading golf clubs into his airplane, proving that "we are the joke." Meanwhile, Brian gets voice recognized...
8 Jul 202559min
EP135 - Dehydrated to Perfection with Erica Gilbert
Time for a heat dome intervention. Weather expert and certified mensch/CFII/CSIP Erica Gilbert returns to explain why we're all flying around in "the most expensive tin can you could sit in" and why B...
1 Jul 20251h
EP134 - CAF Adventures, Heat Domes, and Shredded Tubes
The crew welcomes Dev Cannon, who exemplifies the CAF mission by going from aviation newcomer to Music City Wing Commander in just a few years, leading 70 volunteers in preserving warbird history. Dev...
24 Jun 20251h 4min
EP133 - Ice Bags in Your Nether Regions: Remote Field Breakdown Survival Guide
The guys tackle the inevitable reality of breaking down away from home - and yeah, "you did it to yourself by choosing to take on flying in midlife." They get real about emergency prep: "have a leathe...
17 Jun 202557min
EP132 - Information Whiskey: Smart Charts and Fish Finders
Ben raves about Garmin Smart Charts as a potential ForeFlight killer, while the gang shares their biggest radio pet peeves - from the dreaded "with you" to "fish finder." Brian explains why his igniti...
10 Jun 20251h
EP131 - 4% Gain to Go Pants Less - Cross Country Cockpit Organization
The crew tackles long cross-country cockpit organization after Ted's epic 5,400-mile journey reveals that going "pants-free" provides a "4% gain" in performance (wheel pants, people!). From the critic...
3 Jun 20251h 4min
