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Midlife Pilot Podcast — 174 episodes

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EP175 - Say Again, Slowly: Everything We Wish We Knew About ATC Comms

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EP174 - Information Whiskey: Just Don't Do It. Just Don't Do It.

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EP173 - Certified vs. Experimental - Do You Want to Fly or a Hobby?

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EP172 - Live from Bentonville! The Thaden Invasion Fly-In

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EP171 - Bracin' for Thaden with Seth Lake

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EP170 - Information Whiskey: A Nothing Sandwich in the Clouds

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EP169 - You Can't Fix the Mind With the Mind - with Gita Brown

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EP168 - How The Turn Tables... Brian's Turn to Checkride Debrief

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EP167 - Cockpit Tetris and Mess Management

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EP166 - Information Whiskey: Flat Tires and IFR Reality Checks

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EP165 - The Killing Zone Returns: Why 50-350 Hours Are Still the Most Dangerous

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EP164 - The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Midlife Pilot - Part 3

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EP163 - The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Midlife Pilot - Part 2

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EP162 - The Ultimate Guide to Becoming a Midlife Pilot - Part 1

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EP161 - Information Whiskey Year End Spectacular

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EP160 - The Importance of Community

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EP159 - The Sky Was Angry That Day, My Friend

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EP158 - Dire Pragmatism with Absolute Lunacy

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EP157 - Information Whiskey: A Countable Number of Summers

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EP156 - Checkride Prep Reality Check with CFII Erica Gilbert

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EP155 - “This Guy Never Saw Me" - A Pattern Predicament

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EP154 - "You've Got to Find Something Else to Do"

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EP153 - Information Whiskey: "I've Studied My Brain Into a Porridge-Like Consistency"

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EP152 - "Into the Wilds of GA": MOSAIC Day Celebrations, Carb Heat Confusion, and Airframe Chaos

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EP151 - 2nd Chances at 46: Motion Sickness, Legacy, and Finding the Right CFI

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EP150 - The Garmin 430 Is That Friend Who Peaked in High School

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EP149 - Information Whiskey: Why Does This Plane Smell Like Grandpa?

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EP148 - Camping on Mount Stupid: A Love Letter to Infrequent Flyers

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EP147 - Trip, Fall, Succeed: Chip Away at Your Next Rating

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EP146 - The Third Rail of Aviation Discussion

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EP145 - Information Whiskey: Life, Spotted Cow, and Plane Jinxes

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EP144 - It's Easier to Build an Airplane Than Get My A&P

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EP143 - The IFR Imposters: A False Glide Slope to Aviation Knowledge

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EP142 - Poof, You're a Milkshake! - MOSAIC Part Deux: What's Next

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EP141 - Every Pilot Is Creative Somehow: Tim Lien from Banjo to CNC

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EP140 - Information Whiskey: Leg Day, Dutch Rolls, and Answering Machines

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EP139 - MOSAIC for All Pilots: Ted Read 700 Pages So You Don't Have To

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EP138 - Cargo Pants Season and $70 Friends: CFII Nathan Ballard Answers Feedback (Ted Live from Oshkosh)

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EP137 - OG Chris Returns! Taking Aviation Breaks Without Guilt

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EP136 - Information Whiskey: The Tool in the Plane is Us

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EP135 - Dehydrated to Perfection with Erica Gilbert

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EP134 - CAF Adventures, Heat Domes, and Shredded Tubes

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EP133 - Ice Bags in Your Nether Regions: Remote Field Breakdown Survival Guide

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EP132 - Information Whiskey: Smart Charts and Fish Finders

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EP131 - 4% Gain to Go Pants Less - Cross Country Cockpit Organization

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EP130 - Debriefing the Debriefs: Part 2 - Instrument Checkrides

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EP129 - Debriefing the Debriefs: Part 1 - Private Pilot Checkrides

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EP128 - Two Bounces and a Skip: Planning vs. Reality

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EP127 - Big Texas Send Live from T82: Between Two Wheelpants

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EP126 - Information Whiskey: "Like Oregon Trail Without Dysentery"

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EP125 - "What Am I Doing?": Extinguishing Helmet Fires Before They Consume You

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EP124 - Parking: The Episode That Goes Nowhere

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EP123 - The Answer to All Solutions: Level Seven Hangar Living

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EP122 - "I Plan My Stops Around Food" and IFR Training: CFII Erica Gilbert

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EP121 - Information Whiskey: Between Patience and Numbness

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EP120 - Descending from Mount Stupid: with Paul Craig

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EP119 - The Cockpit Lies, Data Doesn't: Flysto Debrief

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EP118 - All Aboard the Pain Train: The Trials of Aircraft Ownership

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EP117 - Park Bench vs. Swing Set: The High Wing-Low Wing Showdown

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EP116 - Got Lazy, Not Rusty: Navigating Pattern Entries

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EP115 - The $200 Time Machine: Flying GA For Business

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EP114 - "This is a Checklist, Not a Do List" - Hustle and Flow(s)

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EP113 - Information Whiskey: Very Plane Shaped, That's As Far As It Goes

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EP112 - 'Just Doing a Bombing Run Here We Go': Master CFI Nathan Ballard's Military Adventure

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EP111 - It's ALWAYS Fuel (and Never for Skywriting)

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EP110 - An Appy Hour Special

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EP109 - Information Whiskey: Dented Wings and Announcing Big Texas Send 2025!

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EP108 - Trip, Fall, Succeed : When Bad Judgment Makes Good Stories

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EP107 - Overcoming Perfectionism: Sexy Indifference for Mediocre Pilots

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EP106 - From Dawn Patrol to Jumping Fences: Multi-Day Flying Tips

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EP105 - Information Whiskey: Fly in planning, dad hats, saggy flaps

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EP104 - Flying With Strangers From the Internet: Vetting Co-Pilots

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EP103 - Finding Flight Time: If You're Not Lying to Yourself, You're Not Flying

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EP102 - Cheaper Fuel is Cheaper: Flying on a Budget

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EP101 - Information Whiskey: ATC Mumbling, Mountains & Mediocrity

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EP100 - A Very Special Non-Event - Live from Fairmont Airport!

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EP99 - 100 Hours of Questionable Decisions

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EP98 - Embracing the Plateau, and Naptime

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EP97 - A Little Stitious: Hula Girls, Lucky Socks, and Cockpit Voodoo

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EP96 - With You or Without You - Pet Peeves

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EP95 - Information Whiskey: Marbles in Mouths, Mitsubishi Misery, Malibu Miracles, and More

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EP94 - Beyond the $100 Hamburger, no fence jumping

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EP93 - Travels, checklists, flows, and did he call Ted Mark?

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EP92 - Short memories and embracing the suck

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EP91 - From Impostor to Aviator: 10 Tips for New Pilots

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EP90 - Information Whiskey - NORDO in a Bravo, orcas diversion, cloud dancing

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EP89 - Aviation Mentors, the freshmakers of pilots

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EP88 - The Heat is On

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EP87 - Owning bad weather routing with ATC and AJ

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EP86 - Information Whiskey - Broken Things Happened

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EP85 - Hazardous Midlife Attitudes

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EP84 - Midlife radio tips with RH - reading the room

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EP83 - 100 Hours vs. 500 Hours - feral cats in the pattern

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EP82 - Flight Simulators and Jitters

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EP81 - Information Whiskey: broken hoses, hangar rant, and mailbox lasagna

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EP80 - Checkride Fails - a good thing?

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EP79 - Airplane Partnerships: the good, the bad, the ugly

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EP78 - OG Midlife Pilot - Carb Ice Anxiety and the Joy of Not Flying

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EP77 - Before hour zero - Beginning in aviation before you can even begin

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EP76 - When Flying Gets Boring

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EP75 - Comparison is the thief of joy

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EP74 - Pressures, External and Otherwise

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EP73 - Nashville Fly In recap, Newts, and Chinchillas

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EP72 - ATC Scott and the Nashville Fly-In Preview!

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EP71 - Flying with kids, with Erica Gilbert and her offspring!

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EP70 - The art of tailwheel flying: with CFI Ben Lehman

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EP69 - Happy Hour, Annuals, BFR's, and a Zulu rant

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EP68 - NO REGERTS and other things you would have done differently

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EP67 - Ted's excellent adventure, birds on strike, and the race to get ratings

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EP66 - Night flying, the perils of lifting old TVs, and a poignant acronym rant

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EP65 - All things sport pilot license and LSA

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EP64 - Exploring your knowledge gaps

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EP63B - Find the right plane for your mission

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EP62 - Ways to combat complacency

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EP61 - Five ways to build confidence as a newer pilot

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EP60 - Weather is fun with CFII Erica Gilbert

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EP59 - Debriefing the debrief, memory logbooks, and the Nashville fly-in

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EP58 - Record your flights safely, or maybe not at all

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EP57 - Personal minimums, Spruce Goose, and Ben does Portlandia

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EP56 - Crosswind landings and Galaga cheat codes

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EP55 - Year end spectacular - icing on the vegetables

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EP54 - The Sage Sells Out; Fixing Bad Habits

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EP53 - CFII Nathan Ballard - question everything

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EP52 - Checkride binders, Fritos on fire, and Nashville Meetup announcement!

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EP51 - Your First Solo

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EP50 - The OG Midlife Pilot

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EP49 - We've Got Information Whiskey

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EP48 - Nashville ATC! Controllers, pilots, realtors Scott and Shelley Weckler

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EP47 - Josh Flowers - How Has Aviation YouTube Evolved?

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EP46 - Flying With Your Spouse

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EP45 - All about STCs

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EP44 - Happy Hour! Guest Bryan Turner aka Just Plane Silly

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EP43 - Flying Cross Country As A New Pilot - XC 101

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EP42 - How To Get Started In Flying - Midlife Pilot 101

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EP41 - Ways to Keep Flying Fun - Prevent Pilot Burnout

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EP40 - The Podcast Handoff - a very special crossover episode!

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EP39 - Osh Kosh Recap and Maintenance Discrepancies

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EP38 - Tailwheel Training and Osh Kosh

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EP37 - Looking for a flying purpose? Join the Freedom Aviation Network

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EP36 - CFI/Flight School owner Jeff Ramsey on how to choose a flight instructor, and more!

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EP35 - Other Ways to Be Involved in Aviation

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EP34 - Flying and Filmmaking with Gareth/Zero Three Delta

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EP33 - Weather planning tools, and how we make weather decisions

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EP32 - Why the aviation community is so awesome

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EP31 - Weird Things That Happen When Flying

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EP30 - Ask Us Anything

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EP29 - Guest Tom Kubat - From Paramotoring to PPL

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EP28 - Aviation Goals for 2023 & Beyond

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EP27 - 10 Tips For Your First 100 Hours as a Private Pilot

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EP26 - Thankful for Aviation and Listener Messages

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EP25 - Nashville Fly In Recap

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EP24 - Everything About Flying Clubs with Drew Myers from AOPA

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EP23 - Pilots Flying with Pilots (the good and the bad)

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EP22 - Flying and filmmaking with Socal Flying Monkey

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EP21 - Should you get your instrument rating now, or wait?

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EP20 - Advice to newer pilots from more experienced pilots - with Ben Singer aka The Sage

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EP19 - ATC Talk with RH and AG from Opposing Bases Podcast

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EP18 - Top Five Bucket List Destinations

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EP17 - How Do You Use ForeFlight?

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EP16 - What Are You Most Afraid of in Flying?

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EP15 - Things You'd Change About Your Flight Journey

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EP14 - What They Don't Teach You In Flight School

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EP13 - Outer Banks Fly In Debrief

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EP12 - Ask Us Anything

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EP10 - Live Q&A - Your Questions

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EP9 - Good Days, Bad Days, and The Mental Game of Flying

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EP8 - Flight Planning LIVE

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Ep7 - Best Aviation YouTube Channels

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EP6 - You Got Your PPL, Now What? (plus a Flying Club Breakdown)

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EP5 - Nervous Passengers

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EP4 - Demystifying the Private Pilot Checkride

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EP3 - Flight Training Horror Stories

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EP2 - The Challenges of Being a Midlife Pilot

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EP1 - Why and how we record our flying