HeyJaredFlight Tales
Ryan Owens, Owner and flight instructor at Owens Flight training interviews other pilots, co-workers, students, air traffic controllers, and talks about everything aviation in these fun and sometimes informative episodes of Flight Tales.
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Pilot Proficiency Examiner (PPE): What 50+ Years of Flying Teaches You (opens the original)
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What does it really mean to stay ahead of the airplane?In this episode of Flight Tales, we sit down with Jeff Brevelle, whose aviation career began right here in Lafayette in 1970 and has taken him through an incredible range of flying, instructing, maintenance, airline operations, and aircraft.Jeff has flown everything from floatplanes, helicopters, King Airs and Citations to Saab 340s, 727s, 737s, MD-11s and DC-3s. Along the way, he’s spent decades teaching, training, checking, and learning wh
How to Fly an Approach Plate | What IFR Pilots Need to Know (opens the original)
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What do you actually do with an approach plate once you’re flying the approach? In this episode of Flight Tales , we’re breaking down how to actually use an approach plate while flying IFR . Using the VOR/DME RWY 11 approach into Lafayette, Louisiana (KLFT) , we walk through the approach from beginning to end and talk about what should be going through your head at each step. We cover how to make sure you have the correct approach, verify that you and the airplane can actually fly it, check equi
Part 61 vs. Part 91: Do You Know These FAA Regulations? (opens the original)
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What’s the difference between FAR Part 61 and Part 91—and which FAA regulations should you actually know before you fly?In this episode of Flight Tales, Ryan Owens sits down with flight instructor Fernando to break down two of the most important sections of the FARs for general aviation pilots: Part 61 and Part 91.Instead of simply memorizing regulations for a checkride, Ryan and Fernando look at how these rules affect the decisions pilots make in the real world. They discuss student pilot endor
Can You Learn to Fly With a Full-Time Career? (opens the original)
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Think you don’t have enough time to learn to fly? Dr. Bose Cheeran became a private pilot while working full-time as an interventional cardiologist, taking call, raising a family, traveling internationally, and dealing with all the normal challenges that come with flight training.In this episode of Flight Tales, Ryan Owens sits down with Bose to talk about his journey from a Discovery Flight at Owens Flight Training to earning his Private Pilot Certificate in a Cirrus. What started as a birthday
Can You Pass This Airspace Mock Checkride? | Sectional Charts Explained (opens the original)
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Think you know your airspace? Ryan Owens puts Owens Flight Training instructor Fernando Sequera through a mock-checkride-style breakdown of sectional charts and the airspace knowledge every student pilot should have before the real thing.In this episode of Flight Tales, Ryan and Fernando work their way across the sectional and cover Class B, C, D, E, and G airspace, VFR weather minimums, Special VFR, equipment and communication requirements, TRSAs, restricted and prohibited areas, MOAs, TFRs, VF
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