Episode 85: Three Greens

Father-and-son pilots Michael and Ethan Russo recount an IFR flight that turned critical when their aircraft suffered a complete avionics failure at 8,000 feet in heavy rain. 

Coast Guard helicopter pilot Rick Kenin recalls a Christmas Eve rescue flight that nearly became an emergency of its own. 

During a trip to Dry Tortugas National Park with his wife and two friends, Brandon Reissiger faces a challenging and nerve-wracking water takeoff in his Lake Amphibian. 

A “time-saver” offered by ATC might not have been a good idea for the pilot and his wife en route to the Bahamas, putting them farther over water than they’d like and into weather they didn’t expect. Instrument-rated private pilot Kevin Reick shares that story with host, Rob Reid ... Show More

Flying single engine over the mountains at night in a vintage airplane. What could go wrong? (By Jim Pitman) 

A recent equipment upgrade created an erroneous incompatibility with fuel flow sensing for pilot and social media influencer Kay Hall. Hear how it unfolded in this episode. 

Brace for impact… With the plane’s engines failing and 155 lives on the line, veteran pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger III had seconds to decide his next course of action. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices 

A Grumman pilot neglects a checklist item and nearly pays a heavy price. By Bob Lamberton. 

Dr. Stan Markus is an owner and lover of antique aircraft. And when the engine quit on his Stearman, away from his home airport, he only had a few seconds to find a suitable landing field that would not be a hazard to those on the ground, himself, or his airplane. 

In this "Never Again" episode, a 21-year-old instrument rated multi-engine commercial pilot shares his harrowing experience of a sudden engine failure during a spring break trip from Kansas to Florida in a Cessna 182. Just three miles from his destination, the engine catastrophic ... Show More

Night descends on Giselle's hen do as the girls make one young man's dreams come true in the Torremolinos marina. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. 

An overheated iPad, an unfamiliar aircraft, a missed checklist item, and convective weather at the destination airport. Sounds like a chain of events. Find out how quick decision making saved the day--but not the stomach contents--of a King Air full of nervous fliers. By Chris Po ... Show More

It's a bird! It's A Plane! IT'S… Tyler!?!? This week, Tyler recounts his adventure soaring high above the ground when he went paragliding, while Markiplier cleans the dust off his totally existent engineering degree to explain the physics & engineering that allows humans to fly. ... Show More