All Episodes

AvTalk Episode 385: “Looking into” that low flypast

AvTalk Episode 384: And we’re back

AvTalk Episode 383: Goodyear Blimp Chief Pilot Michael Dougherty

AvTalk Episode 382: The RISE of the Open Fan

AvTalk Episode 381: Xavier Pepin, Ultra Long Range Pilot

AvTalk Episode 380: A Whale of a time

AvTalk Episode 379: This feels eerily similar

AvTalk Episode 378: How the Farnborough Airshow comes together

AvTalk Episode 377: About that low, low pass by the 777

AvTalk Episode 376: Transferring that risk elsewhere

AvTalk Episode 375: Progress, but to what end?

AvTalk Episode 374: 17 years without a license

AvTalk Episode 373: Eight hours to nowhere

AvTalk Episode 372: Just because you can, doesn’t mean you should

AvTalk Episode 371: “So that started this on the wrong trajectory to begin with”

AvTalk Episode 370: The man collecting Spirit’s pieces

AvTalk Episode 369: Extra exits, bread trucks, and bankruptcies

AvTalk Episode 368: Humanoids handling your bags?

AvTalk Episode 367: We’re worried about availability, not just cost

AvTalk Episode 366: An unserious proposal

AvTalk Episode 365: Bag fees, bag fees, bag fees

AvTalk Episode 364: Emergency management mode

AvTalk Episode 363: Collision on the runway

AvTalk Episode 362: Beware tall elk and low flying hog hunters

AvTalk Episode 361: When saving money costs lives

AvTalk Episode 360: War shuts down Middle East airspace

AvTalk Episode 359: Reading them the ROTOR Act

AvTalk Episode 358: Not how you want the day to go

AvTalk Episode 357: Frickin’ drones with frickin’ laser beams

AvTalk Episode 356: Finally, a 25 hour rule

AvTalk Episode 355: Systemic failures

AvTalk Episode 354: Want to buy a 747SP?

AvTalk Episode 353: Boeing has a banner year

AvTalk Episode 352: It’s the deicing that’ll get ya

AvTalk Episode 351: Our favorite conversations from 2025

AvTalk Episode 350: “Outrageous:” close calls near Venezuela

AvTalk Episode 349: How do you forget about a 737?

AvTalk Episode 348: Consider the airspace closed in its entirety

AvTalk Episode 347: Fatigue cracks, thrust levers, and sand ballast

AvTalk Episode 346: The A340-600 episode

AvTalk Episode 345: Reasonable people

AvTalk Episode 344: UPS flight 2976

AvTalk Episode 343: It’s a retention issue

AvTalk Episode 342: Two statistically improbable events

AvTalk Episode 341: Dry Clean Only

AvTalk Episode 340: Four engines for podcast

AvTalk Episode 339: What the Nuuk!?

AvTalk Episode 338: Tunis to Nice, too close

AvTalk Episode 337: Pay attention, get off the iPad!

AvTalk Episode 336: No supernatural demonic force

AvTalk Episode 335: the Plovdiv mystery

AvTalk Episode 334: They got Nuuk’d

AvTalk Episode 333: Whinging about windowless window seats

AvTalk Episode 332: “Ongoing concern” concerns

AvTalk Episode 331: Stuck on the plane for 28 hours

AvTalk Episode 330: Acceptable deviation?

AvTalk Episode 329: Planes where they shouldn’t be

AvTalk Episode 328: Lock the cat in the lav

AvTalk Episode 327: Overrun by squirrels

AvTalk Episode 326: Diversions and diversion tactics

AvTalk Episode 325: The crash of Air India flight 171

AvTalk Episode 324: Five flights to nowhere

AvTalk Episode 323: Raccoons on a plane

AvTalk Episode 322: They bounced the wheel right off

AvTalk Episode 321: Global gets off the ground

AvTalk Episode 320: About that Qatari 747

AvTalk Episode 319: What’s old is Newark again

AvTalk Episode 318: “All the brain damage of buying a whole airline”

AvTalk Episode 317: The (Q1) results are in

AvTalk Episode 316: The helicopter in the Hudson

AvTalk Episode 315: Growth has “largely stalled”

AvTalk Episode 314: World Champion Gas Ballooning

AvTalk Episode 313: Turn off the airport, and turn it on again

AvTalk Episode 312: It’s good to have balloon insurance

AvTalk Episode 311: No LUV for a broken Heart

AvTalk Episode 310: “Engulfed in flames”

AvTalk Episode 309: Tower, how’d that happen?

AvTalk Episode 308: Upside down, but alive

AvTalk Episode 307: Everything is delayed 5-10 years

AvTalk Episode 306: The facts from Washington DC, Philadelphia, and Aktau

AvTalk Episode 305: Boom booms for the first time

AvTalk Episode 304: Oh baby baby

AvTalk Episode 303: A comforting musky scent

AvTalk Episode 302: Blowout, one year later

AvTalk Episode 301: Azerbaijan Airlines 8243 and Jeju Air 2216

AvTalk Episode 300: Our favorite conversations in 2024

AvTalk Episode 299: Let’s talk about the drones

AvTalk Episode 298: Boeing gets going again

AvTalk Episode 297: He used a helicopter to ask

AvTalk Episode 296: A fire, a crash, and a contract

AvTalk Episode 295: Severe turbulence, more bullets, and hundreds of hamsters

AvTalk Episode 294: Please don’t shoot at the planes

AvTalk Episode 293: All right, everybody back to work

AvTalk Episode 292: Airplane facts with Max

AvTalk Episode 291: They strike on

AvTalk Episode 290: Boeing brings the battle axe

AvTalk Episode 289: The FAA doesn’t want headless pilots

AvTalk Episode 288: Escalation or the new normal?

AvTalk Episode 287: How best and final is “best and final”?

AvTalk Episode 286: Leis, strikes, and stripped for parts

AvTalk Episode 285: How much cocaine can you fit in a Gulfstream?

AvTalk Episode 284: When protection doesn’t protect you

AvTalk Episode 283: When the door guy goes on vacation

AvTalk Episode 282: Just when everything was starting to go well

AvTalk Episode 281: VoePass 2283 crash discussion with Steve Giordano

AvTalk Episode 280: Hear ye, hear ye says the NTSB

AvTalk Episode 279: Boeing chooses its new CEO

AvTalk Episode 278: Gary O’Donnell, A321XLR head of program

AvTalk Episode 277: Finally, some good news for Boeing!

AvTalk Episode 276: Wait, who’s cleared for takeoff!?

AvTalk Episode 275: The NTSB puts Boeing in timeout

AvTalk Episode 274: International trash balloons

AvTalk Episode 273: Congress, Dutch roll, and bad titanium

AvTalk Episode 272: Reduced separation

AvTalk Episode 271: Boeing’s plan to fix itself

AvTalk Episode 270: Coming to an airplane near you, news from AIX 2024

AvTalk Episode 269: Extreme turbulence

AvTalk Episode 268: Not-so-deferred prosecution?

AvTalk Episode 267: Falsifying records

AvTalk Episode 266: A new challenger emerges

AvTalk Episode 265: Scott Bateman’s Hercules

AvTalk Episode 264: Stolen gold and expensive eels

AvTalk Episode 263: Another whistle blows

AvTalk Episode 262: Striking for the right to strike

AvTalk Episode 261: How the aviation industry is reacting to GPS spoofing

AvTalk Episode 260: Beware the chair

AvTalk Episode 259: Asleep at the sidestick

AvTalk Episode 258: With respect to documentation

AvTalk Episode 257: 30 minutes of bad decisions

AvTalk Episode 256: A bad day in Belgrade

AvTalk Episode 255: Grounded for the dumbest of reasons

AvTalk Episode 254: The bolts, they are missing

AvTalk Episode 253: Time traveling with Taylor Swift and turtles

AvTalk Episode 252: Let’s inspect more 737s

AvTalk Episode 251: 737-9 MAX inspections and investigations

AvTalk Episode 250: Alaska Airlines flight 1282

AvTalk Episode 249: Japan Airlines flight 516

AvTalk Episode 248: Our favorite conversations of 2023

AvTalk Episode 247: He’s a stowaway!

AvTalk Episode 246: Getting goosed

AvTalk Episode 245: Alaska says Aloha

AvTalk Episode 244: Olov Lindström: how to land a 787 in Antarctica

AvTalk Episode 243: Turkey, mashed potatoes, and Shinkansen

AvTalk Episode 242: Quit horsing around back there

AvTalk Episode 241: Want to run the most secretive airline in the world?

AvTalk Episode 240: First officer threatens to shoot captain over medical diversion

AvTalk Episode 239: Event Horizon

AvTalk Episode 238: The greatest reinvention of an airline in the history of aviation

AvTalk Episode 237: The civil aviation situation in Israel

AvTalk Episode 236: Into the Airchive!

AvTalk Episode 235: 1200 pilots short

AvTalk 234: Route proving with the A321XLR

AvTalk Episode 233: Ural in a field (again)

AvTalk Episode 232: Duplicate waypoints led to NATS outage

AvTalk Episode 231: Investigation, what investigation?

AvTalk Episode 230: Prigozhin’s plane plummets

AvTalk Episode 229: Just kidding about vacation, this is a new episode

AvTalk Episode 228: Jumpseat cameraman

AvTalk Episode 227: TCAS for the win!

AvTalk 226: Contaminated powder and a single piece of chicken

AvTalk Episode 225: The escaping escape slide

AvTalk Episode 224: An unruly passenger

AvTalk Episode 223: That’s a bad look Scott

AvTalk Episode 222: They warned us it would be bad

AvTalk Episode 221: The largest single order in commercial aircraft history

AvTalk Episode 220: Nonstop to Beef Island

AvTalk Episode 219: Air India is in for a long wait

AvTalk Episode 218: Asiana’s open door policy

AvTalk Episode 217: The NEA is DOA

AvTalk Episode 216: Former NTSB Chair Robert Sumwalt

AvTalk Episode 215: Ryanair goes all in on the 737-10 MAX

AvTalk Episode 214: Covered in bees!

AvTalk Episode 213: Mo’ Engines, Mo’ Problems

AvTalk Episode 212: A non-standard manufacturing process

AvTalk Episode 211: It’s volcano time

AvTalk Episode 210: Passing the Medium Flocking Bird Test

AvTalk Episode 209: Ian’s surprise solo show

AvTalk Episode 208: The FAA says fly better

AvTalk Episode 207: Time for a Safety Summit

AvTalk Episode 206: The DOJ suit we’ve all been expecting

AvTalk Episode 205: These close calls keep getting closer

AvTalk Episode 204: Two tail strikes and an all stop

AvTalk Episode 203: United’s disturbing dive after departure

AvTalk Episode 202: Less than 100 feet apart

AvTalk Episode 201: Sending the last 747 home

AvTalk Episode 200: Boeing earnings and arraignment, NTSB comments again

AvTalk Episode 199: One crashed, two came close

AvTalk Episode 198: Organ Transplant Logistics

AvTalk Episode 197: The problem with the ET302 final report

AvTalk Episode 196: Our favorite conversations from 2022

AvTalk Special Episode: Southwest Airlines’ Operational Meltdown

AvTalk Episode 195: Boeing gets an early Christmas gift

AvTalk Episode 194: What do you do on a 13 hour test flight?

AvTalk Episode 193: The final 747 leaves the factory

AvTalk Episode 192: He fought the wire and the wire won

AvTalk Episode 191: What happened in Lima?

AvTalk Episode 190: Would you like to play a game?

AvTalk Episode 189: Looking into Boeing’s Future

AvTalk Episode 188: Harassed by a Drone

AvTalk Episode 187: Korean Air goes off-roading

AvTalk Episode 186: Unexpected runway

AvTalk Episode 185: Wheel’s Away!

AvTalk Episode 184: The life of an airline dispatcher

AvTalk Episode 183: Closing down, Opening up

AvTalk Episode 182: Electricity in the air

AvTalk Episode 181: The Queen’s flight

AvTalk Episode 180: Parabolic flight on the Zero G A310

AvTalk Episode 179: French fisticuffs on the flight deck

AvTalk Episode 178: Behold the AmeriBoom!

AvTalk Episode 177: Our attempt at a summer break

AvTalk Epiosde 176: The 787 returns

AvTalk Episode 175: Thanks Nancy

AvTalk Episode 174: Spirit turns its lonely eyes to Blue

AvTalk Episode 173: Farnborough a go go

AvTalk Episode 172: Six feet from a very different ending

AvTalk Episode 171: The smoldering summer of suck

AvTalk Episode 170: I’ll take the top bunk

AvTalk Episode 169: It was a hit and run

AvTalk Episode 168: Patience packed, but will it be enough?

AvTalk Episode 167: Could SAS be the new Alitalia?

AvTalk Episode 166: You can’t stick that plug there

AvTalk Episode 165: LufthITA Cruise Lines

AvTalk Episode 164: JetBlue vs Spirit 2: this time it’s hostile

AvTalk Episode 163: The passenger landed the plane!

AvTalk Episode 162: Project Sunrise gets the green light

AvTalk Episode 161: Cigarettes and Oxygen don’t mix

AvTalk Episode 160: We’re in for a rough summer

AvTalk Episode 159: Going multi-modal

AvTalk Episode 158: JetBlue’s surprise bid for Spirit

AvTalk Episode 157: They missed the deadline

AvTalk Episode 156: China Eastern Airlines flight 5735

AvTalk Episode 155: Andy Taylor, Chief Solutions Officer

AvTalk Episode 154: The Titanium Curtain Rises

AvTalk Episode 153: Ukraine, Russia and the impact on aviation

AvTalk Episode 152: Hydrogen on the A380

AvTalk Episode 151: Keeping an eye on Ukraine

AvTalk Episode 150: Spirit, the final Frontier

AvTalk Episode 149: Now that’s a biggun’

AvTalk Episode 148: Firing the customer

AvTalk Episode 147: The US’s 5G fiasco

Episode 146: Train versus plane

AvTalk Episode 145: EK231 and the stinking onion

AvTalk Episode 144: Our favorite conversations from 2021

AvTalk Episode 143: Everything you need to know about jet fuel, part 2

AvTalk Episode 142: Everything you need to know about jet fuel, part 1

AvTalk Episode 141: China greenlights the 737 MAX

AvTalk Episode 140: United CEO Scott Kirby on SAFs

AvTalk Episode 139: Catching up with airBaltic’s CEO and Chief Pilot

AvTalk Episode 138: The 2021 Dubai Airshow

AvTalk Episode 137: The grand reopening

AvTalk Episode 136: Jet Pack Man isn’t real

AvTalk Episode 135: Airbus Chief Test Pilot Malcolm Ridley

AvTalk Episode 134: Nobody cares about number 2

AvTalk Episode 133: Southwest, ATC, and the rumor mill

AvTalk Episode 132: Net Zero at the IATAAGM

AvTalk Episode 131: When pigs… stand next to a runway?

AvTalk Episode 130: The Airbus Summit

AvTalk Episode 129: A maddening report

AvTalk Episode 128: The Raccoon Returns

AvTalk Episode 127: Getting into the boxes business

AvTalk Episode 126: The Kabul Airlift

AvTalk Episode 125: Chaos in Kabul

AvTalk Episode 124: Get out your smelling salts

AvTalk Episode 123: Cockpit Casual with Steve Giordano

AvTalk Episode 122: Everything you need to know about eVTOL aircraft

AvTalk Episode 121: Passing 100,000

AvTalk Episode 120: Aviation, it’s electric!

AvTalk Episode 119: Ditching in the dark

AvTalk Episode 118: A real aircraft order

AvTalk Episode 117: Undesirable Retraction

AvTalk Episode 116: WTO look there’s China

AvTalk Episode 115: Is Boom all noise?

AvTalk Episode 114: Shootin’ the Breeze

AvTalk Episode 113: Ryanair flight 4978 forced to land in Belarus

AvTalk Episode 112: They walked away from a mid-air collision

AvTalk Episode 111: NTSB Investigator Sean Payne, Part 2

AvTalk Episode 110: NTSB Investigator Sean Payne, Part 1

AvTalk Episode 109: Meet Frugal the Squirrel

AvTalk Episode 108: Ian does his best to pronounce Fagradalsfjall

AvTalk Episode 107: Strong words from Sir Tim Clark

AvTalk Episode 106: How to run an airport in Antarctica

AvTalk Episode 105: It’s raining engine parts

AvTalk Episode 104: Air Greenland CEO Jacob Nitter

AvTalk Episode 103: Ian’s plan to save Norwegian with GameStop cash

AvTalk Episode 102: The crash of Sriwijaya Air flight 182

AvTalk Episode 101: Our favorite conversations from 2020

AvTalk Episode 100: Good riddance 2020

AvTalk Episode 99: Solving the mystery of the whale song

AvTalk Episode 98: The MAX is back

AvTalk Episode 97: The Piston-powered Episode

AvTalk Episode 96: Everything is strange and nothing makes sense

AvTalk Episode 95: Buddy Start

AvTalk Episode 94: What a mess

AvTalk Episode 93: Shimmy Shake

AvTalk Episode 92: Not great, not great at all

AvTalk Episode 91: The public comment period

AvTalk Episode 90: Long live the Queen

AvTalk Episode 89: The recovery that isn’t

AvTalk Episode 88: 262 out of 860

AvTalk Episode 87: 100 kilograms of silica

AvTalk Episode 86: What’s next: a roundtable discussion

AvTalk Episode 85: We’ll see

AvTalk Episode 84: Completing the trifecta

AvTalk Episode 83: Have we hit the bottom?

AvTalk Episode 82: Setting all the wrong records

AvTalk Episode 81: ATC 0

AvTalk Episode 80: Grinding to a halt

AvTalk Episode 79: It’s nothing short of a crisis

AvTalk Episode 78: Climb into the Skynest

AvTalk Episode 77: Jetting in the Jet Stream

AvTalk Episode 76: The Coronavirus Response

AvTalk Episode 75: The downing of PS752

AvTalk Episode 74: Our favorite conversations from 2019

AvTalk Episode 73: Boeing halts production of the 737 MAX

AvTalk Episode 72: United’s Single Aisle Surprise

AvTalk Episode 71: Firm Orders

AvTalk Episode 70: Fat Fingers in Amsterdam

AvTalk Episode 69: A special 737 MAX update

ANNOUNCEMENT: No AvTalk episode this week, special episode next week