EPISODE · Mar 3, 2026 · 33 MIN
When Special VFR Is the Right Call with Adam Boyd
from Air Facts Podcast: The Story Behind the Story · host Sporty’s Air Facts Journal
Special VFR is often treated like a footnote in ground school—something you can do, but probably never will. In this episode of the Air Facts Podcast, we talk with Adam Boyd, 2025 National CFI of the Year, about why that mindset may be incomplete.Adam is an ATP, three-time Master CFI, Designated Pilot Examiner, and C-130 Instructor/Evaluator Pilot with the Arkansas Air National Guard. With more than 26 years of flying experience, he’s logged time everywhere from small-town North Carolina to the Pacific and beyond. But it was a recent departure in his RV-4 under a stubborn 900-foot ceiling that reshaped how he thinks about Special VFR.
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Special VFR is often treated like a footnote in ground school—something you can do, but probably never will. In this episode of the Air Facts Podcast, we talk with Adam Boyd, 2025 National CFI of the Year, about why that mindset may be incomplete.Adam is an ATP, three-time Master CFI, Designated Pilot Examiner, and C-130 Instructor/Evaluator Pilot with the Arkansas Air National Guard. With more than 26 years of flying experience, he’s logged time everywhere from small-town North Carolina to the Pacific and beyond. But it was a recent departure in his RV-4 under a stubborn 900-foot ceiling that reshaped how he thinks about Special VFR.
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