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Brandon Martini & Carson Vasquez
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Questions Flight Schools Hope You Won’t Ask Before You Enroll
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🚀 We are The Aviation Mentors, a weekly podcast dedicated to creating an amazing space where we aviators can hang out and enjoy a wide range of conversations about anything aviation. We're aviators, we're mentors, and we're entrepreneurs. Whether you're a student pilot, professional pilot, general aviation enthusiast, or just an AV Geek like us, this is the podcast for you! 🌎 Join us every Friday as we share our passion for flying! Sponsored by Stratus Financial www.stratus.finance
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- Questions Flight Schools Hope You Won’t Ask Before You Enroll · 19 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 245🛫 Before you hand a flight school thousands of dollars, make sure you know which questions to ask first. In this episode, Brandon Martini and Carson Vasquez break down what…
- Tesla’s Flying Roadster: What It Means for Pilots · 22 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 244🚗✈️ Tesla just unveiled a Roadster that drives upside down and lifts off the road. For pilots, the first question is: whose airspace is that? Brandon Martini and Carson Vasquez…
- Why Student Pilots Stall on FAA Regulations and How to Actually Learn Them with Caressa Bray · 24 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 243✈️ Excited to start flight training, then hit a wall of FAA regulations? You’re not the only one. This week on Aviation Mentors, Brandon Martini and Carson Vasquez sit down with…
- Don't Change Your Fuel Plan Mid-Flight: Why I Regretted It Twice in One Weekend (Part 2) · 22 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 242⛽ What happens when everything's going right, so you skip the fuel stop you planned? In this episode, Brandon Martini and Carson Vasquez finish the story of Brandon's ferry…
- Fuel Planning in an Unfamiliar Airplane: Why the Owner's 5 GPH Estimate Was Wrong · 27 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 241⛽ What happens when the fuel burn you were promised isn't the fuel burn you get? In this episode, Brandon Martini and Carson Vasquez break down part one of Brandon's ferry flight…
- What Actually Happens in a 2-Year Flight Review, From Stalls to Steep Turns · 21 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 240✈️ Flight review coming up? Brandon walks through his 2-year flight review in a twin, from stalls to steep turns to one very human radio mistake. Co-host Carson Vasquez is out…
- How Much Fuel Reserve Do You Actually Need? · 19 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 239Fuel starvation kills more pilots than mechanical failure ever will, so why do so many still skip the fuel stop? ⛽ In this episode of the Aviation Mentors Podcast, Brandon and…
- Plan for the Unexpected: A Real-World Cross Country Flight in a New Light Sport Aircraft · 25 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 238✈️ What does it take to plan a cross-country flight when almost nothing is certain? In this episode of the Aviation Mentors Podcast, Brandon shares his in-progress cross-country…
- Flight School Rate Hikes, Checkride Delays & Crosswind Limits: Pilot Q&A · 22 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 237Should you switch flight schools if your rates just went up? Is 45 hours without a checkride sign-off normal, or a red flag? ✈️ In this episode of the Aviation Mentors Podcast…
- From Glider Pilot to Flight Test Engineer: Adriana on Soaring Records, Gulfstream, and the FlyORKA App · 29 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 236✈️ What does it take to flight test a brand-new aircraft before it's ever earned its wings? In this episode of the Aviation Mentors Podcast, Brandon and Carson sit down with…
- Can AI Get You Through Your Checkride? · 19 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 235Can an AI really get you through your checkride, or is it setting you up to fail? 🤖✈️ In this episode of the Aviation Mentors Podcast, Carson flies solo to break down the…
- When There's No Runway: Beaches, Golf Courses, and the Huntington Beach Mayday · 19 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 234Mayday, Mayday, Mayday — what really happens when the engine quits and there's no runway in sight? ✈️ In this episode of the Aviation Mentors Podcast, Brandon and Carson break…
- Buying or Selling a Plane? Here's the $50,000 Mistake to Watch For · 23 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 233Buying or selling a plane? There's a costly mistake hiding in the logbooks that most people never see coming. ✈️ In this episode of the Aviation Mentors Podcast, Brandon and…
- What It's Really Like to Fly Into Oshkosh and Camp Under Your Wing · 24 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 232What does it really cost to experience the biggest airshow in the world? ✈️ In this episode of the Aviation Mentors Podcast, Brandon and Carson break down everything pilots need…
- Part 107 Drone Rules Every Pilot Needs to Know in 2026 · 35 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 231Flying a drone near an airport? The rules might surprise you. 🛸 In this episode of the Aviation Mentors Podcast, Brandon and Carson break down Part 107 and what every pilot…
- You Failed Your Checkride. Now What? · 22 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 230🌍 Failed a checkride? You're not alone, and it's not the end of your aviation journey. ✈️ In this episode of the Aviation Mentors Podcast, Brandon and Carson break down what a…
- What Is the Pentagon's 1260H List and Why Is Cirrus On It? · 18 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 229A Chinese-owned aircraft maker just landed on the Pentagon's radar, and Cirrus pilots want to know what it means for them. In this episode of the Aviation Mentors Podcast…
- Cirrus Is a Chinese Company? Plus CO Risk and DPE Shortage · 22 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 228Is Cirrus secretly owned by a Chinese company, and could carbon monoxide be hiding in your training aircraft right now? ✈️ In this episode of the Aviation Mentors Podcast…
- The State of Flight Training in 2026: Hiring, Pipeline, and What the Data Actually Shows · 30 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 227Flight training in 2026 — is it still worth it, and what do the numbers actually say? ✈️ In this episode of the Aviation Mentors Podcast, Carson delivers a data-driven state of…
- Can You Fly Without Aviation Insurance? Skywatch Answers for Students, CFIs, and Flight Schools · 37 dk · Sezon 3 Bölüm 226Can you fly without aviation insurance and what happens if you do? ✈️ In this episode of the Aviation Mentors Podcast, Brandon and Carson sit down with Tomer Kashi, CEO and…
