Midlife Pilot Podcast
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Episodes: 190
Mar 10, 2024
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Welcome to the Midlife Pilot Podcast, where we share the experiences and the challenges of flying in midlife. Whether you're a seasoned pilot, training for private or instrument ratings, or just thinking about getting started in aviation, we like to think of the podcast as your aviation companion, and your weekly dose of aviation inspiration. Hosted by the dynamic trio of Ben, Brian, and Ted - the show is not instruction - it's all about sharing real stories, personal insights, and the pure joy of spreading your wings in midlife.
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EP191 - I'm Just Going Where He's Going
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Jul 28, 2026 |
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EP190 - Nothing Like the Real Thing
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Jul 21, 2026 |
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EP189 - Sport Pilot Extraordinaire
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Jul 14, 2026 |
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EP188 - Go/No-Go: Honoring Your Minimums When Everyone Else Is Leaving
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Jul 07, 2026 |
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EP187 - Information Whiskey: Super Scoopers, Springer Mountain & the Bachelorette Bravo
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Jun 30, 2026 |
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EP186 - Risk It for the Biscuit: The $300 Hamburger
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Jun 23, 2026 |
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EP185 - Flying the Long Way
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Jun 16, 2026 |
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EP184 - Information Whiskey: Event Events vs. Non-Event Events
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Jun 10, 2026 |
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EP183 - "What's Time to a Hog?" — Ron Horton, DPE (Part 2 of 2)
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Jun 02, 2026 |
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EP182 - "What's Time to a Hog?" with DPE Ron Horton (Pt. 1 of 2)
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May 26, 2026 |
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EP181 - Fly Like It's Your Job. Because It Kind Of Is.
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May 19, 2026 |
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EP180 - Getting Back in the Training Saddle
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May 12, 2026 |
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EP179 - Information Whiskey: Pimp the Plane or the Pilot, But You Can't Pimp Both
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May 05, 2026 |
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EP178 - Flying Silent: No Engine. No Seat Cushion.
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Apr 28, 2026 |
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EP177 - Momentum: The Pudding Skin of Aviation
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Apr 21, 2026 |
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EP176 - Flying With Pilots, Strangers, and Stranger Pilots
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Apr 14, 2026 |
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EP175 - Say Again, Slowly: Everything We Wish We Knew About ATC Comms
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Apr 07, 2026 |
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EP174 - Information Whiskey: Just Don't Do It. Just Don't Do It.
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Mar 31, 2026 |
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EP173 - Certified vs. Experimental - Do You Want to Fly or a Hobby?
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Mar 24, 2026 |
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EP172 - Live from Bentonville! The Thaden Invasion Fly-In
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Mar 16, 2026 |
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EP171 - Bracin' for Thaden with Seth Lake
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Mar 10, 2026 |
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EP170 - Information Whiskey: A Nothing Sandwich in the Clouds
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Mar 03, 2026 |
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EP169 - You Can't Fix the Mind With the Mind - with Gita Brown
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Feb 24, 2026 |
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EP168 - How The Turn Tables... Brian's Turn to Checkride Debrief
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Feb 18, 2026 |
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EP167 - Cockpit Tetris and Mess Management
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Feb 10, 2026 |
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EP166 - Information Whiskey: Flat Tires and IFR Reality Checks
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Feb 03, 2026 |
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EP165 - The Killing Zone Returns: Why 50-350 Hours Are Still the Most Dangerous
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Jan 27, 2026 |
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EP164 - The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Midlife Pilot - Part 3
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Jan 20, 2026 |
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EP163 - The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Midlife Pilot - Part 2
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Jan 14, 2026 |
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EP162 - The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Midlife Pilot - Part 1
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Jan 06, 2026 |
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EP161 - Information Whiskey Year End Spectacular
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Dec 31, 2025 |
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EP160 - The Importance of Community
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Dec 24, 2025 |
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EP159 - The Sky Was Angry That Day, My Friend
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Dec 16, 2025 |
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EP158 - Dire Pragmatism with Absolute Lunacy
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Dec 09, 2025 |
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EP157 - Information Whiskey: A Countable Number of Summers
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Dec 02, 2025 |
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EP156 - Checkride Prep Reality Check with CFII Erica Gilbert
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Nov 25, 2025 |
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EP155 - “This Guy Never Saw Me" - A Pattern Predicament
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Nov 18, 2025 |
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EP154 - "You've Got to Find Something Else to Do"
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Nov 11, 2025 |
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EP153 - Information Whiskey: "I've Studied My Brain Into a Porridge-Like Consistency"
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Nov 04, 2025 |
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EP152 - "Into the Wilds of GA": MOSAIC Day Celebrations, Carb Heat Confusion, and Airframe Chaos
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Oct 28, 2025 |
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EP151 - 2nd Chances at 46: Motion Sickness, Legacy, and Finding the Right CFI
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Oct 21, 2025 |
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EP150 - The Garmin 430 Is That Friend Who Peaked in High School
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Oct 14, 2025 |
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EP149 - Information Whiskey: Why Does This Plane Smell Like Grandpa?
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Oct 07, 2025 |
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EP148 - Camping on Mount Stupid: A Love Letter to Infrequent Flyers
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Sep 30, 2025 |
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EP147 - Trip, Fall, Succeed: Chip Away at Your Next Rating
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Sep 23, 2025 |
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EP146 - The Third Rail of Aviation Discussion
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Sep 16, 2025 |
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EP145 - Information Whiskey: Life, Spotted Cow, and Plane Jinxes
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Sep 09, 2025 |
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EP144 - It's Easier to Build an Airplane Than Get My A&P
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Sep 02, 2025 |
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EP143 - The IFR Imposters: A False Glide Slope to Aviation Knowledge
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Aug 26, 2025 |
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EP142 - Poof, You're a Milkshake! - MOSAIC Part Deux: What's Next
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Aug 18, 2025 |
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EP141 - Every Pilot Is Creative Somehow: Tim Lien from Banjo to CNC
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Aug 12, 2025 |
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EP140 - Information Whiskey: Leg Day, Dutch Rolls, and Answering Machines
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Aug 05, 2025 |
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EP139 - MOSAIC for All Pilots: Ted Read 700 Pages So You Don't Have To
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Jul 29, 2025 |
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EP138 - Cargo Pants Season and $70 Friends: CFII Nathan Ballard Answers Feedback (Ted Live from Oshkosh)
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Jul 22, 2025 |
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EP137 - OG Chris Returns! Taking Aviation Breaks Without Guilt
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Jul 15, 2025 |
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EP136 - Information Whiskey: The Tool in the Plane is Us
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Jul 08, 2025 |
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EP135 - Dehydrated to Perfection with Erica Gilbert
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Jul 01, 2025 |
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EP134 - CAF Adventures, Heat Domes, and Shredded Tubes
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Jun 24, 2025 |
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EP133 - Ice Bags in Your Nether Regions: Remote Field Breakdown Survival Guide
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Jun 17, 2025 |
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EP132 - Information Whiskey: Smart Charts and Fish Finders
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Jun 10, 2025 |
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EP131 - 4% Gain to Go Pants Less - Cross Country Cockpit Organization
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Jun 03, 2025 |
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EP130 - Debriefing the Debriefs: Part 2 - Instrument Checkrides
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May 27, 2025 |
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EP129 - Debriefing the Debriefs: Part 1 - Private Pilot Checkrides
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May 20, 2025 |
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EP128 - Two Bounces and a Skip: Planning vs. Reality
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May 13, 2025 |
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EP127 - Big Texas Send Live from T82: Between Two Wheelpants
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May 07, 2025 |
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EP126 - Information Whiskey: "Like Oregon Trail Without Dysentery"
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Apr 29, 2025 |
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EP125 - "What Am I Doing?": Extinguishing Helmet Fires Before They Consume You
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Apr 22, 2025 |
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EP124 - Parking: The Episode That Goes Nowhere
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Apr 15, 2025 |
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EP123 - The Answer to All Solutions: Level Seven Hangar Living
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Apr 08, 2025 |
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EP122 - "I Plan My Stops Around Food" and IFR Training: CFII Erica Gilbert
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Apr 01, 2025 |
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EP121 - Information Whiskey: Between Patience and Numbness
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Mar 25, 2025 |
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EP120 - Descending from Mount Stupid: with Paul Craig
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Mar 18, 2025 |
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EP119 - The Cockpit Lies, Data Doesn't: Flysto Debrief
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Mar 11, 2025 |
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EP118 - All Aboard the Pain Train: The Trials of Aircraft Ownership
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Mar 04, 2025 |
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EP117 - Park Bench vs. Swing Set: The High Wing-Low Wing Showdown
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Feb 25, 2025 |
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EP116 - Got Lazy, Not Rusty: Navigating Pattern Entries
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Feb 18, 2025 |
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EP115 - The $200 Time Machine: Flying GA For Business
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Feb 11, 2025 |
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EP114 - "This is a Checklist, Not a Do List" - Hustle and Flow(s)
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Feb 04, 2025 |
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EP113 - Information Whiskey: Very Plane Shaped, That's As Far As It Goes
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Jan 28, 2025 |
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EP112 - 'Just Doing a Bombing Run Here We Go': Master CFI Nathan Ballard's Military Adventure
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Jan 21, 2025 |
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EP111 - It's ALWAYS Fuel (and Never for Skywriting)
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Jan 14, 2025 |
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EP110 - An Appy Hour Special
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Jan 07, 2025 |
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EP109 - Information Whiskey: Dented Wings and Announcing Big Texas Send 2025!
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Dec 30, 2024 |
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EP108 - Trip, Fall, Succeed : When Bad Judgment Makes Good Stories
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Dec 23, 2024 |
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EP107 - Overcoming Perfectionism: Sexy Indifference for Mediocre Pilots
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Dec 17, 2024 |
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EP106 - From Dawn Patrol to Jumping Fences: Multi-Day Flying Tips
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Dec 10, 2024 |
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EP105 - Information Whiskey: Fly in planning, dad hats, saggy flaps
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Dec 03, 2024 |
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EP104 - Flying With Strangers From the Internet: Vetting Co-Pilots
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Nov 26, 2024 |
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EP103 - Finding Flight Time: If You're Not Lying to Yourself, You're Not Flying
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Nov 19, 2024 |
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EP102 - Cheaper Fuel is Cheaper: Flying on a Budget
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Nov 12, 2024 |
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EP101 - Information Whiskey: ATC Mumbling, Mountains & Mediocrity
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Nov 05, 2024 |
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EP100 - A Very Special Non-Event - Live from Fairmont Airport!
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Oct 30, 2024 |
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EP99 - 100 Hours of Questionable Decisions
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Oct 25, 2024 |
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EP98 - Embracing the Plateau, and Naptime
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Oct 22, 2024 |
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EP97 - A Little Stitious: Hula Girls, Lucky Socks, and Cockpit Voodoo
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Oct 15, 2024 |
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EP96 - With You or Without You - Pet Peeves
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Oct 08, 2024 |
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EP95 - Information Whiskey: Marbles in Mouths, Mitsubishi Misery, Malibu Miracles, and More
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Oct 01, 2024 |
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EP94 - Beyond the $100 Hamburger, no fence jumping
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Sep 24, 2024 |
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EP93 - Travels, checklists, flows, and did he call Ted Mark?
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Sep 18, 2024 |
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EP92 - Short memories and embracing the suck
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Sep 10, 2024 |
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EP91 - From Impostor to Aviator: 10 Tips for New Pilots
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Sep 03, 2024 |
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EP90 - Information Whiskey - NORDO in a Bravo, orcas diversion, cloud dancing
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Aug 27, 2024 |
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EP89 - Aviation Mentors, the freshmakers of pilots
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Aug 20, 2024 |
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EP88 - The Heat is On
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Aug 13, 2024 |
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EP87 - Owning bad weather routing with ATC and AJ
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Aug 06, 2024 |
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EP86 - Information Whiskey - Broken Things Happened
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Jul 31, 2024 |
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EP85 - Hazardous Midlife Attitudes
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Jul 24, 2024 |
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EP84 - Midlife radio tips with RH - reading the room
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Jul 17, 2024 |
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EP83 - 100 Hours vs. 500 Hours - feral cats in the pattern
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Jul 10, 2024 |
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EP82 - Flight Simulators and Jitters
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Jul 03, 2024 |
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EP81 - Information Whiskey: broken hoses, hangar rant, and mailbox lasagna
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Jun 26, 2024 |
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EP80 - Checkride Fails - a good thing?
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Jun 19, 2024 |
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EP79 - Airplane Partnerships: the good, the bad, the ugly
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Jun 12, 2024 |
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EP78 - OG Midlife Pilot - Carb Ice Anxiety and the Joy of Not Flying
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Jun 05, 2024 |
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EP77 - Before hour zero - Beginning in aviation before you can even begin
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May 29, 2024 |
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EP76 - When Flying Gets Boring
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May 21, 2024 |
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EP75 - Comparison is the thief of joy
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May 14, 2024 |
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EP74 - Pressures, External and Otherwise
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May 09, 2024 |
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EP73 - Nashville Fly In recap, Newts, and Chinchillas
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May 01, 2024 |
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EP72 - ATC Scott and the Nashville Fly-In Preview!
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Apr 23, 2024 |
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EP71 - Flying with kids, with Erica Gilbert and her offspring!
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Apr 17, 2024 |
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EP70 - The art of tailwheel flying: with CFI Ben Lehman
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Apr 10, 2024 |
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EP69 - Happy Hour, Annuals, BFR's, and a Zulu rant
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Apr 03, 2024 |
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EP68 - NO REGERTS and other things you would have done differently
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Mar 27, 2024 |
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EP67 - Ted's excellent adventure, birds on strike, and the race to get ratings
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Mar 20, 2024 |
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EP66 - Night flying, the perils of lifting old TVs, and a poignant acronym rant
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Mar 13, 2024 |
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EP65 - All things sport pilot license and LSA
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Mar 06, 2024 |
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EP64 - Exploring your knowledge gaps
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Feb 28, 2024 |
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EP63B - Find the right plane for your mission
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Feb 26, 2024 |
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EP62 - Ways to combat complacency
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Feb 14, 2024 |
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EP61 - Five ways to build confidence as a newer pilot
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Feb 07, 2024 |
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EP60 - Weather is fun with CFII Erica Gilbert
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Jan 31, 2024 |
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EP59 - Debriefing the debrief, memory logbooks, and the Nashville fly-in
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Jan 24, 2024 |
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EP58 - Record your flights safely, or maybe not at all
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Jan 17, 2024 |
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EP57 - Personal minimums, Spruce Goose, and Ben does Portlandia
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Jan 10, 2024 |
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EP56 - Crosswind landings and Galaga cheat codes
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Jan 03, 2024 |
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EP55 - Year end spectacular - icing on the vegetables
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Dec 27, 2023 |
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EP54 - The Sage Sells Out; Fixing Bad Habits
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Dec 20, 2023 |
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EP53 - CFII Nathan Ballard - question everything
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Dec 13, 2023 |
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EP52 - Checkride binders, Fritos on fire, and Nashville Meetup announcement!
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Dec 06, 2023 |
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EP51 - Your First Solo
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Nov 29, 2023 |
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EP50 - The OG Midlife Pilot
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Nov 22, 2023 |
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EP49 - We've Got Information Whiskey
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Nov 15, 2023 |
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EP48 - Nashville ATC! Controllers, pilots, realtors Scott and Shelley Weckler
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Nov 08, 2023 |
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EP47 - Josh Flowers - How Has Aviation YouTube Evolved?
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Oct 31, 2023 |
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EP46 - Flying With Your Spouse
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Oct 25, 2023 |
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EP45 - All about STCs
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Oct 19, 2023 |
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EP44 - Happy Hour! Guest Bryan Turner aka Just Plane Silly
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Oct 11, 2023 |
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EP43 - Flying Cross Country As A New Pilot - XC 101
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Oct 05, 2023 |
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EP42 - How To Get Started In Flying - Midlife Pilot 101
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Sep 27, 2023 |
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EP41 - Ways to Keep Flying Fun - Prevent Pilot Burnout
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Sep 20, 2023 |
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EP40 - The Podcast Handoff - a very special crossover episode!
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Sep 13, 2023 |
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EP39 - Osh Kosh Recap and Maintenance Discrepancies
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Aug 03, 2023 |
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EP38 - Tailwheel Training and Osh Kosh
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Jul 20, 2023 |
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EP37 - Looking for a flying purpose? Join the Freedom Aviation Network
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Jun 15, 2023 |
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EP36 - CFI/Flight School owner Jeff Ramsey on how to choose a flight instructor, and more!
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Jun 01, 2023 |
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EP35 - Other Ways to Be Involved in Aviation
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May 18, 2023 |
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EP34 - Flying and Filmmaking with Gareth/Zero Three Delta
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May 04, 2023 |
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EP33 - Weather planning tools, and how we make weather decisions
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Apr 21, 2023 |
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EP32 - Why the aviation community is so awesome
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Apr 03, 2023 |
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EP31 - Weird Things That Happen When Flying
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Mar 02, 2023 |
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EP30 - Ask Us Anything
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Feb 16, 2023 |
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EP29 - Guest Tom Kubat - From Paramotoring to PPL
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Feb 02, 2023 |
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EP28 - Aviation Goals for 2023 & Beyond
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Jan 18, 2023 |
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EP27 - 10 Tips For Your First 100 Hours as a Private Pilot
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Nov 16, 2022 |
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EP26 - Thankful for Aviation and Listener Messages
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Nov 02, 2022 |
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EP25 - Nashville Fly In Recap
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Oct 19, 2022 |
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EP24 - Everything About Flying Clubs with Drew Myers from AOPA
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Oct 07, 2022 |
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EP23 - Pilots Flying with Pilots (the good and the bad)
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Sep 23, 2022 |
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EP22 - Flying and filmmaking with Socal Flying Monkey
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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EP21 - Should you get your instrument rating now, or wait?
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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EP20 - Advice to newer pilots from more experienced pilots - with Ben Singer aka The Sage
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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EP19 - ATC Talk with RH and AG from Opposing Bases Podcast
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Jul 22, 2022 |
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EP18 - Top Five Bucket List Destinations
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Jul 08, 2022 |
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EP17 - How Do You Use ForeFlight?
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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EP16 - What Are You Most Afraid of in Flying?
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Jun 10, 2022 |
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EP15 - Things You'd Change About Your Flight Journey
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May 26, 2022 |
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EP14 - What They Don't Teach You In Flight School
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May 13, 2022 |
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EP13 - Outer Banks Fly In Debrief
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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EP12 - Ask Us Anything
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Apr 09, 2022 |
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EP10 - Live Q&A - Your Questions
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Feb 18, 2022 |
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EP9 - Good Days, Bad Days, and The Mental Game of Flying
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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EP8 - Flight Planning LIVE
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Jan 21, 2022 |
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Ep7 - Best Aviation YouTube Channels
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Jan 07, 2022 |
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EP6 - You Got Your PPL, Now What? (plus a Flying Club Breakdown)
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Dec 16, 2021 |
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EP5 - Nervous Passengers
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Dec 02, 2021 |
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EP4 - Demystifying the Private Pilot Checkride
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Nov 21, 2021 |
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EP3 - Flight Training Horror Stories
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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EP2 - The Challenges of Being a Midlife Pilot
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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EP1 - Why and how we record our flying
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Oct 21, 2021 |