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Bryan Air

by by Bryan Roseveare

I'm Bryan Roseveare. I was an airline captain. I still go to work on the flight deck. It's just a full flight simulator these days, and the pilots I train are the ones who fly you around. This is not a side project. Training pilots is my job, and I believe in the way an airline flight deck works. The structure. The discipline. The way a crew stays calm, works the problem and makes a decision after something goes wrong. Pilots are not born with those habits. They are trained into them, one session at a time, and that means anyone can learn them. They also work for the engine failures of life: the job that disappears, the diagnosis, the decision you have to make with half the information and no time. I want to give you the tools pilots use, so that when your moment comes, you have a proven way to handle it, from the most professional industry in the world. I do this from South Africa, a country I love and refuse to look away from. We sit at the far end of a continent, a long way from everything, and we have never had the luxury of an easy run. That is exactly why this way of thinking belongs here. - A Pilot Explains: one story South Africans are talking about, what a pilot sees in it, and the habit you can take from it. - Once a month, my co-host Ryan Parrock joins me to work through the aviation news that affects South Africa, the way two pilots actually talk about it. Made in Johannesburg. South African honesty.

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#294 Should South Africa Still Own An Airline? SAA Pay Staggered Again, Buyer Due By Feb

DESCRIPTION: SAA has staggered its October salaries for the second month running, and The Citizen reports that Treasury has given the airline until February to find a b

Oct 29
51 min

#293 A Pilot Explains: SAA's Salaries Are Late Again

South African Airways has told its staff that October salaries will be late for the second month in a row, Parliament wants an answer from the Transport Minister by Frida

Oct 27
11 min

#292 A Pilot Explains: Turbulence Into Johannesburg, The Worst Hit Of My Career Was On A Clear Day

DESCRIPTION: Turbulence won't necessarily break the aircraft. It will hurt the people who aren't strapped in. The worst hit of my flying career came on a perfectly clea

Oct 9
12 min

A Pilot Explains: Who Decides If Your Dubai Or Doha Flight Gets Airborne

DESCRIPTION: Every flight through the Gulf this month is being approved on the day, one flight at a time. If your December ticket to Europe or Asia connects in Dubai or

Sep 27
9 min

#290 Fuel Is Half Your Ticket Price: Why Flights Are So Expensive Right Now

DESCRIPTION: Brent crude went back through 100 dollars a barrel on 9 September after the United States and Iran started striking each other again, and it was still abov

Sep 24
29 min

A Pilot Explains: 1 In 8 Airline Pilots Are Depressed, Why We Hide It And What It Costs At Home

DESCRIPTION One in eight airline pilots is depressed. More than half of us have avoided a doctor to protect our licence. This is why pilots stay silent, what it costs a

Sep 24
16 min

#288 ACSA's R1.2 Billion Year, The Approach We Should Have Gone Around From, And Emirates To Berlin At Last

DESCRIPTION: Airports Company South Africa has posted a R1.2 billion profit on R8.81 billion of revenue, and Johannesburg airport still cannot keep its toilets open. Br

Sep 21
31 min

A Pilot Explains: Why Pilots Refuse To Land, And The Night I Got It Wrong

DESCRIPTION The engines roar, the nose lifts, and the runway falls away beneath you. The safest thing a pilot can do is the one thing passengers hate: not land. Here is

Sep 18
19 min

A Pilot Explains: The Scam That Stole R1.2 Million In 20 Minutes

DESCRIPTION A retired teacher east of Johannesburg took a WhatsApp call from someone posing as South African Airways. Twenty minutes later, R1.2 million was gone. Pilot

Sep 18
13 min

#285 No Flypast At FNB: Airlink Pulls Out, SAA 'For Sale' Again and FlySafair's Big Win

DESCRIPTION: The flypast is off. Airlink has withdrawn its FNB Stadium flyby for Saturday's third test, citing the weather, while the South African Civil Aviation Autho

Sep 4
22 min

I Watched The Airlink Flypast Like Everyone Else. Here's What I Saw.

Two Airlink E-Jets, one black and one green, flew over Cape Town Stadium seconds before the Springboks and the All Blacks kicked off. Within an hour the whole internet ha

Sep 4
12 min

#283 The Charter Comeback: Beech 1900s, Bush Strips and a Better Life

Charter flying in South Africa is booming, and Ryan is living it: Beech 1900 trips to Zimbabwe, Botswana, the Lowveld and the Northern Cape in the space of three weeks. A

Aug 21
45 min

#282 Etihad Wants South African Pilots. Should You Go?

Etihad Airways is growing quickly, with more aircraft joining the fleet and new destinations on the map, and South African pilots are on its radar. Bryan and Ryan take on

Aug 13
40 min

#281 OR Tambo Delays, Gulf Travel Risk and Studio Talk

DESCRIPTION: Number 17 in the queue for start. Forty minutes at the hold. Ryan flies in and out of O.R. Tambo every day, and this week FlySafair said the quiet part out

Jul 24
32 min

#280 A Pilot Explains: Why South Africa's Flights Keep Getting Delayed (And Why That Keeps You Safe)

The number leads as you asked, the tag sets the expectation (nobody presses play expecting 45 minutes with Ryan and feels shortchanged at ten), and the hook still lands i

Jul 24
9 min

#279 Your Pilot Explains: Is It Safe To Fly Through Dubai?

Is it safe to fly through Dubai right now? On 14 July, EASA, the regulator behind every European airline, told its operators to avoid the airspace of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qat

Jul 20
10 min

We Tested SARS's New Travel Declaration | Plus: Your Face Is Your New Passport

EPISODE SNAPSHOT   Welcome to The Bryan Air Podcast. Career intelligence for pilots.   We break down executive moves, economic forces, and the technology reshapin

Jul 10
28 min

New SARS Travel Rule Hits Every South African Traveler | Plus Emirates Is Hiring SA Pilots

EPISODE SNAPSHOT   Welcome to The Bryan Air Podcast. Career intelligence for pilots. We break down executive moves, economic forces, and the technology reshaping ho

Jul 3
22 min

Do World Cup Players Fly Private? Not Even Close

⭐ FEATURED: INTERACTIVE WORLD CUP TRAVEL TRACKER   We built a live dashboard so you can see exactly how far every team is flying between base camp and match city. Com

Jun 26
32 min

No Strikes Allowed? SAA's Bid to Make Pilots Essential Could Hit Every SA Airline

EPISODE SNAPSHOT Welcome to The Bryan Air Podcast. Career intelligence for pilots. We break down executive moves, economic forces, and the technology reshaping how pi

Jun 11
39 min

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