Aviation podcast suggestions.

[b1900flyer]

Does anyone have any recommendations for aviation related podcasts ? I've listened to a couple of pretty good ones like Airline Pilot Guy. Just wondered if anyone else has some they particularly enjoy ?

[goodmand1]

Check out flapspodcast.com - excellent and very British in style.

[Mick Cullen]

rotarywingshow.com might interest some folks too.

[JOE-FBS]

Looking only at British ones as the environment in the US is so different:

I subscribe to Plane Safety (although I didn't bother with the most recent one).

I found Flaps a bit tabloid for my taste and I got bored with Flying after listening to a lot (in fact just looking on iTunes he seems to have stopped anyway).

Royal Aeronautical Society releases some of its headquarters lectures as podcasts. I have enjoyed some of those although I no longer subscribe.

I also subscribe to Space Rocket History, Space Boffins and the Planetary Society podcasts although I think calling them aviation is stretching things a bit.

I am using subscribe in the iTunes sense of signing up for, not paying for!

[Heebicka]

yep airline pilot guy is fine but he should stop singing :)




Radar Contact by Jeff Kanarish podcast is quite fine, it is related to pilot - atc communications, was useful for me when I did my ppl

[India Four Two]

Budd Davisson's Pilot Reports are a must.

Some are available as podcasts, but there are also reprints of his articles from Air Progress. I recommend starting with this article from 1971 to get a flavour. Note in particular the recent preface.

P-51 Mustang Check-out, Pilot Report (http://www.airbum.com/pireps/PirepMustangBurch.html)Although he has a basic outline, the actual course has to be custom-tailored to the individual's needs. Basically, for $1,800 (Ed: sit down before you read the rest of this sentence. You won’t believe it!) you get 10 hours of Stearman time, 10 hours of T-6 (five front, five back), two hours of Mustang, a couple hours in the B-25 and two in the Bearcat (or four in the B-25 to try for a type rating).When I read that article (in Calgary in 1971), if I hadn't been married, I would have gone like a shot, even though it was about three months salary!

$1800 in 1971 is about $11,000-$12,000 now. Can anyone offer me the same deal? ;)

The articles are here:
Pilot Reports on fighters, bombers, antique aircraft and homebuilt aircraft (http://www.airbum.com/pireps.html)

and the podcasts are here:
The Flight Journal Podcast with Budd Davisson - Flight Journal (http://www.flightjournal.com/the-flight-journal-podcast-with-budd-davisson/)

WARNING: Clicking on these links can be an incredible time waster! This post took me 45 minutes to write because I re-read the P51 article. :ok: