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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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- EP204 - What Is Landings? · 1 h 4 min · Avsnitt 204Ted did the math: episodes 83, 108, 116, 119, 128, 155, 188, and 201 were all more or less about landings, and tonight makes it nine, because you filled the tape machine and we…
- EP203 - Pause Not Included · 54 min · Avsnitt 203Last week's emergency deserves a sequel about the thing you reach for in the later phases of one: the checklist. Enter returning special friend of the show Checkmate Barry, two…
- EP202 - Declared Mercy · 1 h 2 min · Avsnitt 202Ryan and Jackie flew the beautiful RV-10 down for the EP200 hangar show. On the way home, the airplane had other plans: autopilot master fault, attitude indicator misbehaving in…
- EP201 - The Last Five Seconds of a Landing · 1 h 2 min · Avsnitt 201The Discord kept circling one subject, and it happens to be printed on our favorite t-shirt: I forget how to land (or have never learned in the first place). So this one's all…
- EP200 - It Took You Long Enough · 54 min · Avsnitt 200Two hundred episodes, and this one comes with a studio audience: live from a hangar at McCollum Field, at a non-event event. "Come if you want, come as you are," and people came…
- EP199 - No Longer Sport Pilot Extraordinaire · 1 h 1 min · Avsnitt 199Eleven minutes of "we're keeping it a mystery," and then out with it: our friend Timestamp Tedder went and passed his private pilot checkride. "No longer sport pilot…
- EP198 - How Dare You Try to Minimize My Suffering · 1 h 6 min · Avsnitt 198Ted has a private pilot checkride on the calendar, so naturally the crew dedicated the evening to helping him prepare. And by helping, we mean: "You may not be nervous at all for…
- EP197 - I Just Passed My PPL at 1,005 Hours · 1 h 1 min · Avsnitt 197A listener comment set the agenda this week: as the hosts stack ratings and turbine job offers, do the 20-to-200-hour faithful still see themselves in the show? Ben answered by…
- EP196 - BasicTed: Luck Favors the Prepared · 1 h 15 min · Avsnitt 196The gag order is lifted. For ten months Ted answered "what have you been flying lately?" with a cheerful bunch of nothing, because he had quietly bet everything, sport pilot…
- EP195 - I'm Temporarily Delayed, Not Canceled · 52 min · Avsnitt 195Ben, Brian, and Ted declare this one Oops All Feedback (or, as Ben coins it, "oopsitizers"): five tape machine clips plus reviews and community wins. Ben's avionics go…
- EP194 - "That's Why I Wear the Propeller Hat" - PropHatCat! · 1 h 13 min · Avsnitt 194Marcus is a magician, an off-Broadway producer, and an en route controller at Houston Center, which is either an unusual resume or a perfectly logical one. To thousands online…
- EP193 - Getting in the Way of Our A&Ps · 49 min · Avsnitt 193Owner-assisted maintenance, with all four hosts aboard: Ben, Brian, Ted, and Mark (1DullGeek), the show's resident expert, currently apprenticing in his mechanic's shop. What are…
- EP192 - I Can't Believe Someone Pays Me to Do This · 59 min · Avsnitt 192Flying, and actually having someone else pay for it. The crew sits down with James Onieal of Raven Career Development: pilot, instructor, type-rated in the King Air, Citation…
- EP191 - I'm Just Going Where He's Going · 59 min · Avsnitt 191Ben is back from AirVenture and still hearing the Fisk arrival in his sleep. Two holds around the lakes, a push all the way back to Puckaway, and made it in on the third time…
- EP190 - Nothing Like the Real Thing · 1 h 6 min · Avsnitt 190This 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…
- EP189 - Sport Pilot Extraordinaire · 1 h 1 min · Avsnitt 189Sport 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…
- EP188 - Go/No-Go: Honoring Your Minimums When Everyone Else Is Leaving · 45 min · Avsnitt 188Ben'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…
- EP187 - Information Whiskey: Super Scoopers, Springer Mountain & the Bachelorette Bravo · 53 min · Avsnitt 187A 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…
- EP186 - Risk It for the Biscuit: The $300 Hamburger · 1 h 2 min · Avsnitt 186Avgas 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…
- EP185 - Flying the Long Way · 1 h 1 min · Avsnitt 185You 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…
