Aviation Podcast recommendations?

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Any recommendations?

My commute to work is lengthy and looking for a good podcast.
Preferably where I can learn something. I have found some hanger talk ones where folks are discussing flying related things but nothing all that informative.

Know of any good ones?
 
I would like to hear SixPapaCharlie’s Pod Cast!!! I bet it would be fun!!
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
Any recommendations?

My commute to work is lengthy and looking for a good podcast.
Preferably where I can learn something. I have found some hanger talk ones where folks are discussing flying related things but nothing all that informative.

Know of any good ones?
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It's more hangar talk than learning, but I like UCAP -- Uncontrolled Airspace Podcast. They only release about one a month so it won't help with too much of your commute.
 
Warbirdradio.com

particuarly the hartman and heins show from last month!
 
Used to listen to airplan geeks but they started adding listeners voice mails that would go on for 5 mins before they actually got to the question

APG is just the same.
 
I enjoy the Stuck Mic AvCast, http://stuckmicavcast.com/ (and normal podcast places).

They put out new episodes on the 1st and 15th of every month. Episodes are around an hour each. Pretty varied content - sometimes it's interviews with aviation people, sometimes it's live reporting from Sun N Fun etc. sometimes it's recent news topics or weather or something else. A recent episode was titled "Is it time to fire your flight instructor?" Fun stuff!

One of the hosts, Carl Valeri, also has another podcast, the "Aviation Careers Podcast" at www.aviationcareerspodcast.com/ (and podcast places). I listen to this one as well just because it's interesting finding out about and hearing interviews with people in all kinds of different careers in aviation - even though I don't have any immediate desire to change careers paths. Bush pilots, international airline pilots, filmmakers, photographers, flight attendants, etc. He puts out a new episode about every other week.

Both of these have a large archive of episodes so it could last you quite some time if you listened to all of them.
 
I like airplane pilot guy. Its big iron pilot talking about his life "on the other side of the door" he's a little
On the green side for talking but his viewpoints of happenings is interesting. Somewhat sporatic releases.
 
saracelica said:
I like airplane pilot guy. Its big iron pilot talking about his life "on the other side of the door" he's a little
On the green side for talking but his viewpoints of happenings is interesting. Somewhat sporatic releases.
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He obviously does not believe in editing,
 
Thanks for the recommendations.
I am noting these and going to start checking them out.
 
I miss PilotCast - it was started by several unbelievably smart and ridiculously entertaining pilots.

But, they all became prostitutes.
 
Simple Flight Radio
Airline Pilot Guy

And there's one called "Omega Tau" that has some choice episodes about "flying the concord" and "flying the SR71" which look interesting. Goes into technical details and little known facts.
 
Just Plane Radio.


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Jim_CAK said:
I like Airline pilot guy too, but your right, he needs to edit some of fat out of those podcasts.
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I listen to him at 1.5x and sometimes 2x.


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Omega Tau (from Germany, in English) is a different kind of aviation (and other sciencie (or is it sciency) things) podcast.

In depth interviews (2 hrs +) with pilots E.G. about how to fly the Concorde (interesting point, they had to move fuel to the rear tank when going supersonic, for W&B, and empty it when going subsonic, but not because of speed, because of something else--you'll have to listen to the podcast to find out:)

Other topics covered are Flying the Harrier, Container Shipping, Supercomputers.

Well worth a try.

Edit - just noticed Dan's prior post. HT Dan


http://omegataupodcast.net/category/podcast-en/
 
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Hangar 49
Airspeed
Aopa live this week

Other
World of boating
The Pickleball show
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
um... Sounded like you said "pickleball"
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Yes, there is more to life than flying. Flying is good for the brain but no exercise. Pickleball has solved that problem. The fastest growing fun sport. Sounds stupid but is easy and fun. Google it and check it out. :yes:
 
I listen to UCAP for aviation stuff. They use to post weekly, but after 5 years of that they went to twice a month.

I also listen to:
Stuff You Should Know: Posts every Tu&Th Josh & Chuck are hilarious.
Stuff You Missed in History Class
Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me: Best and funniest NPR hands down after Car Talk!!
 
Jim_CAK said:
I like Airline pilot guy too, but your right, he needs to edit some of fat out of those podcasts.
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On APG, I don't mind short audio feedback as long as it's to the point and less than a minute. There was one last year, 7 mins covered how some guy met his wife, blah blah blah and then finally asked a question about failed thrust reversers.

On Airplane geeks, the Oz desk is a fun addition but thank god that boring English guy does not contribute any more, he was sleep inducing.

UCAP is good but unfortunately these days, not often enough
 
Scrabo said:
On Airplane geeks, the Oz desk is a fun addition but thank god that boring English guy does not contribute any more, he was sleep inducing.
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Thank God for Fast Forward..Personally I don't listen to the Oz desk at all, mostly because it is not GA focused, and I don't want to hear anything more about Qantas, and Virgin Australia, or ...?

The guest interviews and review of current news items is great, sometimes the listener mail can be quite good.
 
eaglepilot said:
Thank God for Fast Forward..Personally I don't listen to the Oz desk at all, mostly because it is not GA focused.
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Unless Geeks are talking about seat pitch ( which is a lot) or IFE or P&W turbine engines ... hardly GA related
 
turboeddie said:
Yes, there is more to life than flying. Flying is good for the brain but no exercise. Pickleball has solved that problem. The fastest growing fun sport. Sounds stupid but is easy and fun. Google it and check it out. :yes:
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I haven't played that since the 80's.
 
Scrabo said:
Unless Geeks are talking about seat pitch ( which is a lot) or IFE or P&W turbine engines ... hardly GA related
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I agree about seat pitch (dull), but I do like to hear about Max's feedback on turbine engines (aspirational thinking I know)...the penny finally dropped on for me on the basics of turbine engines with Max's framework of suck, squeeze, bang, blow. (I know that sounds like something not safe for work!)
 
I like the airlinepilotguy.com a lot. 'Captain Jeff' is pretty down to earth compared to some airline pilots. His shows are very long, as long as three hours. I'm fine with that, I commute two to three hours every workday, so I have time. I can fast forward through the more inane feedback segments.

I want to like the Airplane Geeks, but it seems like they can't get enough of cornball 'humor', most of which is lame in the extreme. After an incredibly bad interview with a former NTSB board member I dropped my subscription. I was pounding on the dashboard too many times.

AviatorCast isn't bad, but I'd suggest the host cut down on the caffine a little.

The Omega Tau interview with the retired Concorde Pilot was one of the most interesting pilot interviews I'd ever heard.

The Aviation Week podcast is always short and interesting.

The Talking Flight podcast is very well done.
 
The Concorde guy had 4000 Concorde hours and _3000_ supersonic hours. Probably more SS hours than anyone other than space station astronauts and his fellow Concorde pilots....


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It's a bit UK centric, but if you don't mind then Flaps is a fun and breezy aviation show. They very often have interviews with celebrity pilots etc.

UCAP I've kind of given up on. All they do is comment on aviation news, rather than actually speak about where they've flown or trips they've made recently, which is more my interest. Nobody there seems to ever fly except for Jeb.

Pilot's Journey is better in this regard, but it's so dominated by one of the Stuart's (the one in Idaho), that it gets boring. He always hogs up 90% of the airtime and goes on and on. Plus it's very CFI centric.

Podcasts very easily become incestuous - they start inviting other aviation podcasters or people in that biz, rather than take the time to interview real pilots or aviation people. It gets boring with all that internal admiration as no real topics get discussed. No new blood.

I wish there was a show that dealt with people that actually flew real trips, in real weather, used it for business etc. Interviews with real pilots. Or interviews about ownership, operating costs, what models, how to step up to a new type or class etc. That's what I'd like to listen to, not someone just reading AvWeb briefs and commenting on it.
 
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UCAP I've kind of given up on. All they do is comment on aviation news, rather than actually speak about where they've flown or trips they've made recently, which is more my interest. Nobody there seems to ever fly except for Jeb.

Pilot's Journey is better in this regard, but it's so dominated by one of the Stuart's (the one in Idaho), that it gets boring. He always hogs up 90% of the airtime and goes on and on. Plus it's very CFI centric.

Podcasts very easily become incestuous - they start inviting other aviation podcasters or people in that biz, rather than take the time to interview real pilots or aviation people. It gets boring with all that internal admiration as no real topics get discussed. No new blood.

I wish there was a show that dealt with people that actually flew real trips, in real weather, used it for business etc. Interviews with real pilots. Or interviews about ownership, operating costs, what models, how to step up to a new type or class etc. That's what I'd like to listen to, not someone just reading AvWeb briefs and commenting on it.
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I agree with your assessment of UCAP, but still find it interesting. Same topics as often get discussed in the Flight Following forum here, but without the smart asses.

You may want to check out The Airplane Owners Podcast. It does exactly what you are asking for. His podcasts on the way to, at, and returning from Oshkosh last year were good; he even recorded en route to and from so he gets interrupted by ATC from time to time. Eventually though the host and style were a little too dry for me. An hour-long discusson on breaking in a new cylinder did me in. I guess he got similar feedbacak, because he eventually recruited a co-host. You'll have to listen to see who it is.
 
Thanks Van, I'll check it out.
 
denverpilot said:
Maybe it's time to start PoACast. LOL.
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PilotCast was about as close as it got, and it was Most Excellent. There was even a Gaston's remote.

Problem is, its principals got busy with, y'know, making a living and stuff.

Didn't you used to do one, Nate?
 
SCCutler said:
PilotCast was about as close as it got, and it was Most Excellent. There was even a Gaston's remote.



Problem is, its principals got busy with, y'know, making a living and stuff.



Didn't you used to do one, Nate?
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Yeah. Mike High Flyers. Ostensibly about flying in the Rocky Mountain West but we couldn't stay on topic to save our lives. Ha. Mostly just a chat show but we had a few fun interviews.

Mike & Elisabeth from Vegas ended up doing a couple year full time RV gig, Zyola finished up her degree in Aerospace Engineering and got a job, Doug is still flying a bunch and has one kiddo off to college and whatnot, and I moved to the boonies where 5 Mb/s of Internet bandwidth isn't conducive to four or five way (interviews) Skype calls to record it all. M & E also have a hard time finding enough bandwidth to call.

The hardest part about podcasting is the post-recording prep and editing. I removed thousands of "ummms" and "ahhhhs" to make everyone sound so wonderfully bright. :)

Unscripted was also entertaining at times. There's some blue material that hit the cutting room floor. And some that didn't. LOL

I do miss doing it. Maybe we'll do a reunion episode someday and I'll record it from work where I have bandwidth galore. Ha.

While SnF is going on, don't forget to tune into Dave Shallbetter and crew's SnF Radio stream or listen live while you're there! M & E also volunteer with Dave.
 
denverpilot said:
The hardest part about podcasting is the post-recording prep and editing.
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Or, getting all the participants to prep adequately before the recording, so they can keep moving forward without the "ums" and "ahs." I found that I edited least when the guest was well-informed and passionate about the topic.

When I had the...um, other kind of guest, I eventually gave up trying to take out all the little flubs, unless it was for timing.

Having read the responses above, I'd say the hardest part of podcasting is keeping fresh and enthusiastic and staying with the theme. It seems everyone's favorite podcasts drift over time.

I also believe podcasts are largely unsustainable for their hosts unless they produce some income. It's harder and more time-consuming than it looks.
 
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... And it looks pretty tough to start! I was certainly impressed with the degree of effort, skill and "stuff" used by Mike, Kent and crew when I watched them do the PilotCast at Gaston's.

As for the "umms..." and "aahhhhs...," I had always been irritated by this habit in others and presumed myself to be immune from the disease (along with millions of other "nervous word" tics, like "y'know," "and so on" and "f'rinstance"), then when in law school we were taped in mock-trials, was shocked to find that my every third syllable was a long, drawn out, "ummmmmmm."

I broke the habit, but it was like trying not to breathe at first; very difficult, and worthwhile.
 
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