All Episodes
Opposing Bases: Air Traffic Talk — 471 episodes
2026 AirVenture NOTICE (Re Release)
OB443: IFR Pickup Lines
OB442: The IFR or VFR Trap
OB441: Killer Conflict Resolution
OB440: Autopilot-Garbage In, Garbage Out
OB439: Three Magic Words
OB438: My Soul is Still on Downwind at Los Gatos
OB437: Unable, Say Intentions
OB436: A Three-Hour Taxi
OB435: Ghost Target Sorcery
Opposing Bases Air Traffic Talk
OB434: No Beeps, No Sweeps, No Creeps
OB433: Gaslit by ATC
OB432: The Happiest TRACON on Earth
OB431: Hot Chicken Bravo
OB430: The Aspen Squeeze Play
OB429: Slant Useful and Beautiful
OB428: Ninja Pilot, PhD
OB427: The Dreaded Kilo
OB426: LTA Variant, Airborne Transmission
OB425: Navigating IFR Frequency Land, Part 3
OB424: The Lowdown on the Up-Down
OB423: Navigating IFR Frequency Land, Part 2
OB422: Navigating IFR Frequency Land, Part 1
OB421: Wrong Comms, Not Lost Comms
OB420: Special Pilot Separation
OB419: Compounded Lostness
OB418: Ice Chunks and Slam Dunks
OB417: Twelve Days of Christmas
OB416: Only You Can Prevent Helmet Fires
OB415: Real World IFR, Season 8
OB414: Pick a Route . . . Any Route
OB413: When Things Go Sideways
OB412: Sectional Scent, Premature Descent
OB411: Too Close For Lasers . . .
OB410: Essential Volunteers
OB409: This One Time, At Quantico
OB408: The Approachable Approach
OB407: Get Out of My Ear
OB406: ATC-A Pilot's Best Friend
OB405: The Matter of a Mile
OB404: The Spirit of Separation
OB403: Lindbergh's Legacy - Twins vs. Quads
OB402: A Few Good aMENdments
OB401: Currency Camp Debrief
OB400: Squawk 0400, Remain This Frequency
OB399: Coordinated Emergency Simulation
OB398: Flight Plan Flip Flop
OB397: Verifiably Visual
OB396: The Top Gun of ATC
OB395: What Happens in OSH . . .
OB394: The Art of the Visual Approach
OB393: Simulated Emergencies
OB392: Let Your Mind Wander
Notice-AirVenture is Approaching (Re-Release)
OB391: Lost Radar Procedures, Revisited
OB390: PTACtical Phraseology
OB389: Two Lieutenants, a Blackhawk, and a DMZ
OB388: When ATC Stops Talking
OB387: More Right Rudder
OB386: VFR Vectors to Final
OB386: VFR Vectors to Final
OB385: Where We're Going, We Don't Need Victor Airways
OB385: Where We're Going, We Don't Need Victor Airways
OB385: Where We're Going, We Don't Need Victor Airways
OB384: Mommy, Where Do LOAs Come From?
OB384: Mommy, Where Do LOAs Come From?
OB384: Mommy, Where Do LOAs Come From?
OB383: Aviation Career Day, Part 3
OB382: Aviation Career Day, Part 2
OB381: Aviation Career Day, Part 1
OB380: Flying Wake Turbulence Machines
OB379: Heavy Wake, LUAW Fake
OB378: What Is Your Separation?
OB377: Ding Dong, The Snitch Is Dead
OB376: Protect For The Missed Approach
OB376: Protect For The Missed Approach
OB375: Runway Changes and Landing Gear Exchanges
OB374: Frogger Finals and Opposing Bases
OB373: Archie League Heroes
OB372: Wrong Runways and Class Charlie Strays
OB371: Calmly Landing Off-Field
OB370: We Discuss the Tragedy at DCA
OB369: Flying Through Final
OB368: Flying Through Fire
OB367: Flying Through Failures
OB366: Fighting Through Firsts on Struggle Street
OB365: Best Supporting Penguin
OB364: Santa Landed On My Driveway
OB363: Risk Versus Reward in Aviation Training
OB362: Blinded by the Light Gun
OB361: Swipe Right For Flight Following
OB360: No One Will Ever Love You Like ATC
OB359: Mystical Land Pirates
OB358: Not Having a Plan is a Terrible Plan
OB357: The Turning Point Was The Turning Point
OB356: A Little Light Chop
OB355: ATC Emergency Mode Engaged
OB354: Falling Ice Rocks
OB353: Hurricane Response - All Hands on Deck
OB352: General Aviation's Natural Disaster Response
OB351: Dirty Bippees
OB350: The AME Circle of Trust
OB349: Dazzling DPEs Since 2018
OB348: Don't Butcher My Mona Lisa
OB347: Universal Flight Following
OB346: Big Brother is Watching You
OB345: Tie Goes to the Jet
OB344: Vectors to Final, Approach Fix
OB343: Flight Following Lite
OB342: Live From EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2024
Live at AirVenture 2024 on Saturday, July 27, 2024
OB341: Lean On Me
OB340: Mental Health Matters
OB339: Victory For Mankind
OB338: ADS-B vs Flight Following
OB337: VOR Salmoning
OB336: Air Force One, Possible Pilot Deviation
OB335: Emergency Response Penguins
OB334: Penguin Police, ATC Masterpiece
OB333: Frequency Awareness Day
OB332: Cockpit Chaos Creation
OB331: Vectors Through The Wall of Death
OB330: Flight Plan Drop Outs
OB329: Woody Wagon Single Engine Missed
OB328: Reaching Frequency Totality
OB327: Defusing Flight Plans
OB326: Opposing Bases, The Musical
OB325: Practice Approach Refresher Training
OB324: No Approach Means No ODP
OB323: Iceberg Enhancing Drugs
OB322: A Slippery Mountain Missed
OB321: Emphasized Arrivals, A Chiropractor's Dream
OB320: Cloud Surfing on the Published Mist
OB319: Kids in Aviation and ATC
OB318: Real Life in Fantasyland
OB317: Stick Shift Type Ratings
OB316: Thirsty Chinooks and Penguin Riots
OB315: Pet the Jet, Flee the Nest
OB314: This CAN Work in America
OB313: Dark Side of the Hot Garbage Charlie
OB312: Santa's Glider Goes Missed
OB311: Shift Sandwich and Avoiding Earth
OB310: Bears Need Not Apply
OB309: Pushing Back on Pushing Tin
OB308: Double Go Around Burger
OB307: Paper Tigers at Penguin Airlines
OB306: Center, Are YOU IFR Capable?
OB305: Trading Places, Opposite Bases
OB304: Tickles and Stick Wiggles
OB303: The Next Chapter
OB302: Descent Before LAMMB is BAAAD
OB301: Classic Extreme Overcomplication
OB300: Penguin Playground of Pavement
OB299: The Most TWAFL Arrival
OB298: Emergency Inbound
OB297: Opposing Lanes, Car Traffic Talk
OB296: Missing in Post-Mid Sleepyland
OB295: Jet Blast Joy Ride
OB294: Sky Specimen Airlines on the Big Boy Arrival
OB293: Hudson Skyline with Talkative Timmy
OB292: Charlie and the Magic Factory
OB291: The Best Live Show at AirVenture
AirVenture 2023 Live Promo
OB290: Reroute Flippy Floppy
OB289: I Think We're Alone Now
OB288: Big Bad Bravo Bug Smasher
OB287: 2023 AirVenture Notice with BK
OB286: Under Pressure
OB285: Squeeze Plays Gone Bad
OB284: Professional Bus Driving 101
OB283: A Disservice to Aviation
OB282: It's Push-to-Talk, Not Push-to-Think
OB281: Class Bravo Party
OB280: Radar Services Terminated, Watch Out!
OB279: Straight Up Straight In Struggles
OB278: Lost Comms, Listener Beware
OB277: Brain Eating Bippies
OB276: Don't You Over Me, Over
OB275: Ice Cold Vectors
OB274: Sun 'n Fun 2023 - Wanding With Gusto
OB273: Simplified Sky Geometry
OB272: Being Nice Won't Always Suffice
OB271: Squeeze Play Anatomy
OB270: The Controller Happy Grumpy Scale
OB269: I'm Downstairs With Donuts
OB268: Best Visuals in the C5 Galaxy
OB267: Confounding Clearance Confusion
OB266: Beak to Beak With a Battle Penguin
OB265: I Show You as IFR Now
OB264:ATC101-Basketweaving
OB263: Visual Approach Cavalcade
OB262: Floppy Disks and Squeeze Plays
OB261: I Disagree With Me
OB260: Fifth Year Terminated, Squawk Two Zero Two Three
Just the Tip of the Iceberg
OB259: Penguiniverse Christmas Spectacular
OB258: The Zero G Weight Loss Plan
OB257: An IMC Work Hardening Plan
OB256: Jupiter Jets
OB255: Cancel All My Flight Plans
OB254: Penguin Death NOTAMs
OB253: Expect the ILS, Cleared for the RNAV
OB252: MSAW Blender, Aerobatic Offender
OB251: Invisible Boundaries
OB250: No SIDS, No STARS, No Service
OB249: TRACON Dessert
OB248: I Can't Flash You Unless You Touch Me
OB247: Speeding Inside Opposing Canyons
OB246: Three Levels of Inception
OB245: Twice the Tower, Ten Times the Power
OB244: Constant State of Emergency
OB243: Altitude Your Discretion
OB242: Visions of Performance
OB241: Schrödinger's Bravo
OB240: Sleepless in Oshkosh
Live at EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2022
OB239: Radio Calls Are Toll Free
OB238: Standby Me
OB237: 2022 AirVenture Notice-Rock Your Wings!
OB236: High Alert False Alarm
SimVenture 2022-Master the EAA AirVenture NOTICE
OB235: Inadvertent VFR Flight Into IMC
OB234: Slightly Squeezed, Not Mashed
OB233: Because . . . Chinook
OB232: One Touch Wonder
OB231: Wings Do Things
OB230: Caveman ATC
OB229: Bravo Bamboozled
OB228: Hijacked by the Autopilot
OB227: Cancellation Cookies and Bravo Bullies
OB226: Reduce Speed Ten Knots Faster
OB225: Laser Event Swat Team
OB224: Warm and Fuzzy Wake Turbulence Avoidance
OB223: Shiny Aluminum Showers
OB222: Separation Bingo
OB221: We Were on the Landline
Penguins and Peppers
OB220: Airspace Blocks and Bathroom Locks
OB219: Don't Rush the Release
OB218: Flying With The Big Kids
OB217: Unable, We're Inverted
OB216: Wake Turbulence Part 2-Creating Space
OB215: Wake Turbulence: Flaming Hoops of Fury
OB214: Cookies for Aviation Enthusiasts
OB213: Overflight Vectors on Opposing Frequencies
OB212: No Crying at This Party
OB211: Forced Flight Following
OB210: Wings Don't Flap
OB209: Indecent Glitter Liberties in the Devil Bravo
OB208: Irritating Aluminum Bird Thingy
OB207: Garbage Bags of Service
OB206: Fueled Short, Moon Clearance Denied
OB205: Lawn Dart Arrival
OB204: Five Star Through Flight
OB203: Unappreciated ATC Practices
OB202: Vacation on Yaw Damper Island
OB201: Cloud Police and Bird Murder
OB200: Vanishing Yellow Ink, Hand Wash Only
OB199: Cat Door Arrivals
OB198: NAS Charcuterie
OB197: Pushing Penguins
OB196: Life Extending Vectors
OB195: Closer to Kah Kahs
OB194: NOTAM Dustpan
OB193: (Ident)ity Crisis, LOA Bias
OB192: Above Average But Not Exceptional
OB191: Too Close For Terps
OB190: Know When To Hold 'Em
OB189: Inglorious ATC Arguments
OB188: Live at AirVenture 2021
OB187: Airport Insight
2021 AirVenture NOTAM
OB186: Planes Can Never Go Bang Bang
OB185: Unvectored, Uncleared, and Unhinged
OB184: In the Bosom of the Bravo
OB183: Flights and Wings and Things
OB182: Runway Picnics and Stranger Danger
OB181: Tactical Dehydration Inquisition
OB180: Uncleared as Filed
OB179: PIC Talk with Max Trescott
OB178: Radar Contracts
Mayday, Mayday, Mayday: Emergency Landing
OB177: Comfort Zone Combat
OB176: Artistically Denied Go Around
OB175: How to Plant a Plane
OB174: Lost in Frequency Land
OB173: Family Flights, Poisonous Bites
OB172: Astronaut Hats with Fix Proximity Awareness
OB171: Number Two On The Arrival
OB170: Unquenchable Flaming Magnesium
OB169: Panic Vectors, Cheesy Peppers
OB168: Under There. Under Where?
OB167: Reach Out and Touch ATC
OB166: Class Bravo Operations, Part 2
Extra Ketchup, No Mustard
Opposing Bases Air Traffic Talk
OB165: Class Bravo Operations
OB164: IMC Soup Sandwich
OB163: Can You See Me Now?
OB162: Radio Sinners, Record Player Spinners
Obstacle Departure Procedures, Part 2
OB161: Heading Shmeading
OB160: Departing VFR vs. IFR
Bonus: Obstacle Departure Procedures
OB159: Terps Elf's Secrets Revealed
OB158: ATC Strips and Spritz
OB157: Better Routing, Less Pouting
OB156: Airborne Clearances and Balloon Appearances
OB155: Garbage Phraseology
OB154: Antarctic Reroute
OB153: Circular Logic
OB152: Circling Frozen Turkeys
OB151: Navigation Failures
OB150: ATC Hack with a Screamer in the Back
OB149: Half a Million Snarky Squawks
OB148: No Place for Overconfidence
OB147: Sector to Sector on Vectors
OB146: Feedback Fountain
Lifelong Commitment to Aviation
OB145: Student Pilot and a Stuck Mic
OB144: Rest and Radar Required
OB143: Fatigue and Overhead Panel Inspections
OB142: Emergency and Laser Reporting
OB141: The Great Gear Go Around
OB140: Interstate 90, Cleared to Land
OB139: The Right Way to Bust Bravo
OB138: Class Delta Code Confusion
OB137: The Deal on Deals
OB136: Terps Elf on a Bravo Shelf
OB135: Cancel Takeoff, Take a Handoff
OB134: Opposing Bases in the Same Places
OB133: Gunk and Funk's Farewell
OB132: Approach Bingo
OB131: Seeing is Relieving, Part 3
OB130: Seeing is Relieving, Part 2
OB129: Seeing is Relieving
OB128: The Overlap
OB127: Slam Dunk Approach
OB126: Vectors To Final
OB125: Invisible Elves Holding Pattern
OB124: My Final Masterpiece
OB123: The Next Chapter In Your Aviation Story
OB122: Coyote Cunctations
OB121: Collective Friction, Class Bravo Fiction
OB120: Creative Navigation, Deadly Operation
OB119: The Best Instructors
OB118: Live and Socially Distanced
OB117: Checkride Cheats, Flight Check Feats
OB116: Climb Via The Get Out Of Here Departure
OB115: Radio Congestion, Airspace Digestion
OB114: Confessions Of An Iced Up Cirrus
OB113: ATC Clears and Magnetic Fears
OB112: Broken But Readable
OB111: ADS-B And The ATC Copilot
OB110: ADS-B, Part 3
OB109: ADS-B, Part 2
OB108: ADS-B, What Do We See?
OB107: Landing Will Be At Your Own Risk
OB106: Coordination Station, TERPS Chirps
OB105: Last Show of the Decade
OB104: Two Balloons, A Rocket, And An Irishman
OB103: VFR Radio Failure
OB102: Aviation Geek-Speak
OB101: Puzzle Pieces
OB100: A Cornucopia Of Cacophonies
OB99: Non Radar
OB098: IFR Potpourri
OB097: Digitally Remastered
OB96: Pop Up IFR and Straight-In Approaches
OB95: MedEvac 9-1-1
OB94: NEODD SWEVEN, The Triad Bear
OB93: Five Star Weekend Wonderland
OB92: Texas Sized Delays
OB91: Ask A Controller, Part 2
OB90: Ask A Controller
OB89: Bird Strike Emergency
OB88: Gotta Keep 'Em Separated
OB87: Chicago Area Flying Part 2: IFR
OB86: Chicago Area Flying Part 1: VFR
OB85: Trail Blaze In A Summer Weather Maze
OB84: B747 Heavy, Rock Your Wings
OB83: Live From the Saturday Night Air Show Day 6 and 7
Bonus #6: Fisk Flight Narrative Day 5
Bonus #5: Live OVER Fisk at AirVenture Oshkosh 2019 Day 5
Bonus #4: Live from AirVenture Oshkosh 2019 Day 4
Bonus #3: Live from FISK at AirVenture Oshkosh 2019 Day 3
OB82: Live Audience From AirVenture Oshkosh 2019 Day 2
Bonus #2: Live From AirVenture Oshkosh 2019 Day 1
Bonus #1: Live from AirVenture Oshkosh 2019 Day 0
OB81: EAA AirVenture Oshkosh NOTAM
OB80: Bay Area Flying With Max Trescott
OB79: English For Air Traffickers
OB78: Practice Approaches: Tips and Tricks
OB77: Everyone Is Cleared to Land
OB76: Help Wanted
OB75: Class Delta Communication and Coordination
OB74: Radio Faces Host Canadian Aces
OB73: Fun Checkrides and Fat Airplanes
OB72: The Aviation Community
OB71: Potomac Approach (PCT), Part 2
OB70: Potomac Approach (PCT), Part 1
OB69: Category III Approaches and Autoland
OB68: ARTCCs vs TRACONs
OB67: Center Controllers Can See The Future
OB66: Beechcraft Days, 100,000 Plays
OB65: Atlanta TRACON (A80), Part 2
OB64: Atlanta TRACON (A80), Part 1
OB63: Speed Restrictions
OB062: Dodging Primary Targets
OB061: Family Flight Night
OB060: Atlanta Tower
OB059: Wrong Way on a Windy Day
OB058: The Voice That Puts Out Fires
OB057: Ten Whoppers on a Monday
OB056: Miracle on the Hudson
OB055: International Pizza Party
OB054: Serving Our Listeners
OB053: Lost Letters to Airmen
OB052: Christmas Special
OB051: Special VFR
OB050: TRSA Time
OB049: Medical Emergencies
OB048: Thanksgiving Blues and Night Vision Clues
OB047: Feedback Frenzy, Checkride Envy
OB046: Turn Up The Heat Immediately!
OB045: Sounds From The Radar Room
OB044: Must Go Faster
OB043: Transmission Timing and Standby Etiquette
OB042: Victory Vector, Come On Over to My Sector
OB041: Reroute Assignment
OB040: Student Pilot Emergency
OB039: Map Overload
OB038: Radar Training
OB037: Tower Training
OB036: PIREPs
OB035: Alert 2, Bacon Fire!
OB034: Luck of the Irish
OB033: The Great East West ATC Throwdown
OB032: Havoc Five Eight Crash
OB031: Non-Towered Airports
OB030: Captain Al's Feedback
OB029: Dispatcher Lingo and Slot Time Bingo
OB028: NOTAM Novels
OB027: Missed Approach Mountain Mayhem
OB026: How to Apply to Be an Air Traffic Controller
OB025: Charted Visual Approaches and Weather Deviations
OB024: Radar Scopes
OB023: Endless Vectors to 18 Airports
OB022: New Runways
OB021: Starship Enterprise, Possible Pilot Deviation
OB020: Catalina Wine Mixer and Blue Angels
OB019: Holding Hands on Finals to Parallel Runways
OB018: The Clearance Heard Across the County
OB017: Southwest Airlines Flight 1380
OB016: Readbacks and Shout-Outs!
OB015: International Flights and Instructing
OB014: Air Traffic CRM and Going Missed on a Visual Approach
OB013: Caution Wake Turbulence
OB012: Lost Communications
OB011: Unverified Altitudes and Mode C
OB010: A Trip Down Memory Lane on a DC-10
OB009: Zooming into Non-Towered Airports and CTAF
OB008: Approach Briefings, Holds, EFC times, and Fuel Emergencies
OB007: Practice Approaches
OB006: VFR Flights Matter
OB005: Reroutes, Reduced Runway Separation, and RAs
OB004: "Cleared to Land" and Solving The Mystery of "Opposing Bases"
OB003: Go Around: The Controller's Perspective
OB002: Air Traffic Tackles the Autopilot
OB001: Welcome to Opposing Bases Air Traffic Talk