Podcast Episodes
Back to SearchEpisode 52: What Happens To A Damaged Blade? (w/ Maurice Sabourin)
Since 1998, Maurice Sabourin has been a part of an elite team specializing in the repair of aircraft blades at Airbus. Their work falls somewhere bet…
11 months, 3 weeks ago
Episode 51: All About Batteries (w/ Chris Holder)
From lead-acid, to NICAD, and lithium-ion, the evolution of aircraft batteries has always been a balancing act of weight, power and reliability. Gett…
1 year ago
Episode 50: Returning To Flight After Medical Crisis (w/ Dwight Robinson)
Dwight Robinson is the deputy chief pilot of flight testing at Airbus. Last year, his flying career was almost cut short when he was hospitalized wit…
1 year, 1 month ago
Episode 49: Inside The USHST Peer Pilot Program
Last March, the US Helicopter Safety Team launched their Peer Pilot Program — an online resource for pilots to seek help with the inner turbulence th…
1 year, 2 months ago
Episode 48: Changing The Safety Paradigm (w/ Dr. Ivan Pupulidy)
Dr. Ivan Pupulidy is an expert on safety in complex systems and high risk environments. He’s been a featured speaker for TEDx, and his new book “Huma…
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 47: The Science Of Flight Test Engineering (w/ Carl Ockier)
Carl Ockier is the senior expert for flight test engineering at Airbus. Over the last 25 years, Carl has been instrumental in developing some of the …
1 year, 3 months ago
Episode 46: Inside the ICARUS Smart View Limiting Device (w/ Nick Sinopoli)
Nick Sinopoli is the creator ICARUS, a smart view limiting device that is revolutionizing IFR training. With a screen visor mounted to a hat or helme…
1 year, 4 months ago
Episode 45: Inside A UIMC Event (w/ John Roberts)
Unintended flight into IMC is one of the most severe risks we face as pilots. If you haven't been there, it's a hard thing to fathom — flying into th…
1 year, 4 months ago
THINKING, FAST AND SLOW 4 : Flying With "The Possibility Effect"
This is the fourth and final episode of our mini-series on Daniel Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow. In it, we focus on his insights into human behav…
1 year, 5 months ago
THINKING, FAST AND SLOW 3 : What You See Is All There Is (Correlation vs Causation)
This is the third part of our series exploring the work of psychologist Daniel Kahneman, and how it relates to aviation. In this episode, we’re looki…
1 year, 5 months ago