Episode 85: Three Greens

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. 

Kansas City-based flight instructor Lennon Carlson recounts a night engine-out scare in a borrowed Cessna Cardinal RG while flying home after a Fourth of July weekend. 

Arkansas pilot Greg Robbins is flying to lunch with his wife when the front windscreen and side doors of his Aeroprakt A22LS suddenly blow out. To see the video of the incident, click here - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lu23j1DsPOU 

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

<p>On an icy October night in 1984, a young, overworked pilot took off from Edmonton, Alberta, in a small commuter plane with nine passengers aboard, including a politician, a cop and his prisoner. Battling thick cloud cover and the accumulation of ice on the aircraft, the pilot ... Show More

A 172 pilot on a family outing encounters the perils of flying IFR - standing for "I Follow Rivers." 

A Passenger decides to fly the plane after the pilot goes missing.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. 

Matthew Larsen, also known as Pipus The Wise, was a young man on his way up artistically, until a cold winter night ended in his death.Through a series of bizarre events that night, including falling from a shipping container In the middle of the Fairmont Park section of Philadel ... Show More

<p>Flight simulators boomed in 2020 and have barely slowed down since, but many pilots don’t use all the available tools for flight training. Kevin from PilotEdge has watched it all unfold over the last decade and he explains what flight sims are good for (and what they aren&#39; ... Show More

<p>Space: the final frontier. These are the voyages of the Last Podcast on the Left. This week, the boys are launching into the void to discover the truth behind the Black Knight Satellite. In 1998, an image of an unknown object was captured by the ISS floating just outside of Ea ... Show More

This week we have a real doozy for you. Starting things off is Phoolan Devi, the Bandit Queen of India, whose life starts off haunting and ends in the least expected way possible. Then we talk about Brendan Eamonn Fergus Finucane, who graduates from dunce to pilot that shot down ... Show More

<p>Many pilots are intimidated by Air Traffic Control, but veteran controller Kevin Plante says “we’re just another set of eyes for you.” He explains the details of ATC in this wide-ranging episode, including how he handles IFR and VFR traffic differently, what the spacing requir ... Show More