The Plaid Pilot Podcast: Aviation Training and More

Turbulence: What Causes Bumps in the Sky?

Send a text Nearly everyone who travels will experience turbulence at some point in their life. For some, it's no big deal, but for nervous flyers it can be incredi

Announcing Plaid Aviation!

Send a text I'm excited to announce Plaid Aviation, your new home for aviation training resources and community. To make sure you are notified when we go live, plea

Safe VS Legal

Send a text This week we finish our discussion of the Pilot Qualifications in the Commercial ACS, with a topic that is covered in the Private Pilot and Instrument Rating

Commercial Pilot Checkride Prep: Pilot Qualifications

Send a text Beginning our discussion of ground school topics, this week we talk about pilot qualifications for the Commercial Pilot Checkride, and the privileges and lim

Merry Christmas!

Send a text Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays! I hope you are getting to finish out the week spending time with loved ones and planning the goals you will set for the c

Ye Olde Pub

Send a text On December 20th 1943, the crew of the B-17 known as Ye Olde Pub flew their first combat mission together and almost didn't make it home. Flying on only

Five People Who Flew Before the Wright Brothers

Send a text On December 17, 1903, the Wright Brothers became the first people to achieve manned, controlled, heavier than air flight. Take away all of the qualifiers, th

Jesse Brown and Thomas Hudner: Devotion, Friendship, and the Forgotten War

Send a text This week we are talking about the incredible story of Jesse Brown, who was the US Navy's first African American fighter pilot, and Thomas Hudner, who r

The Vin Fiz Flyer

Send a text Happy Thanksgiving! This week we talk about the 20th century's craziest soft drink (developed by a meat packing company) and the transcontinental fligh

Revisiting A History of Veterans Day

Send a text This week, we revisit the history of Veterans Day, a holiday that began with the end of the first World War. Follow me on Instagram: https://www.instagram.c

Three Things You Probably Didn't Know About the B-29 (And One You Probably Did)

Send a text This week we talk about the B-29 Superfortress, the most advanced bomber in the American fleet during WWII. Bell X-1 Drop Launch Video: https://www.youtube

Revisiting A Haunted Aviation Museum

Send a text For this week’s Halloween special we are revisiting an old episode where I got to talk to Barb Kramer from the haunted Kansas Aviation Museum. We talk about

Champaign Gal: Interview with a B-25 Pilot

Send a text This week I had the honor of sitting down with Bill Weidenhammer, a retired pilot with the US Navy, and B-25 pilot with the Champaign Aviation Museum in Urba

Lake Havasu PIREP

Send a text This week we mix things up a little and instead of aviation history, I'm sharing a PIREP (that's short for Pilot Report) about a recent flight to L

A Brief History of Ballooning

Send a text This week, Lynne Newton of the Anderson Abruzzo International Balloon Museum joins me to talk about the 239 year old history of ballooning from 18th century

A History of Flight Instruments

Send a text On September 24, 1929 Jimmy Doolittle made the first flight completely on instruments, so in this episode, we take a look at the history of instruments on th

I Failed My Instrument Checkride!

Send a text I finally passed my instrument checkride on my second attempt! In this episode I talk about my instrument training journey and lessons learned from two attem

Going On Hiatus

Send a text Thank you guys for all of the support the last five months. The show will be on hiatus starting this week as I get ready for my checkride and start commercia

Who Was D.B. Cooper?

Send a text On November 24, 1971, a man calling himself Dan Cooper hijacked Northwest Orient Flight 305 bound for Seattle from Portland, OR and after receiving $200,000

Happy Thanksgiving!

Send a text Due to technical difficulties, I wasn't able to get this week's episode recorded, but I still wanted to stop in and say Happy Thanksgiving! See you