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 Juli 0s
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 Juli 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 Juli 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 Juni 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 Juni 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 Juni 1h 1min
EP184 - Information Whiskey: Event Events vs. Non-Event Events
Brian is hiding from CMA Fest, Ben is back from the British Virgin Islands, and Ted has finally sprung the Egg from a two-month annual. Time for an Information Whiskey episode.Brian gets back in the a...
10 Juni 1h 7min
EP183 - "What's Time to a Hog?" — Ron Horton, DPE (Part 2 of 2)
If you haven't listened to Episode 182 yet, go back — this conversation picks up about five minutes later. Ron Horton, DPE extraordinaire, returns with the crew to finish what he started: a data-drive...
2 Juni 53min
