AvTalk - Aviation Podcast
An aviation podcast by aviation geeks for anyone who looks up when they hear an airplane fly overhead. Listen in as Ian Petchenik and Jason Rabinowitz bring you aviation news, views, and special guests every Friday. If you're a new avgeek or just can't get enough aviation in your life, get your avgeek fix with us.
- Update frequency
- every 6 days
- Average duration
- 45 minutes
- Episodes
- 309
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2025
AvTalk Episode 275: The NTSB puts Boeing in timeout
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, what Boeing did to earn a sanction from the NTSB. What the weekend may hold for Boeing’s legal troubles. Boeing and Airbus agree to deals to acquire Spirit Aerosyste…
00:48:19 |
Fri 05 Jul 2024
AvTalk Episode 274: International trash balloons
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Boeing, Airbus, and Spirit Aerosystems near a deal to bring Spirit back into the Boeing fold. Another Southwest 737 flew too low, this time in Oklahoma City. The NTS…
00:40:15 |
Fri 28 Jun 2024
AvTalk Episode 273: Congress, Dutch roll, and bad titanium
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Boeing CEO Dave Calhoun is back in front of Congress. A trio of stories involving Southwest Airlines, including an apparent incidence of Dutch roll, a roller coast r…
00:37:39 |
Fri 21 Jun 2024
AvTalk Episode 272: Reduced separation
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Air India and IndiGO A320neos come close enough for authorities to open an investigation. We detail the sequence of events and why this incident received any attenti…
00:41:17 |
Fri 14 Jun 2024
AvTalk Episode 271: Boeing’s plan to fix itself
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Jason flies from Germany to New York just to record the podcast and you can barely tell he’s been awake for nearly 24 hours. And in the news, Boeing provides the FAA…
00:33:22 |
Fri 07 Jun 2024
AvTalk Episode 270: Coming to an airplane near you, news from AIX 2024
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, investigators in Singapore release their preliminary findings for the turbulence encountered by SQ321. And Jason is joined by Seth Miller in Hamburg as we review the…
00:41:09 |
Fri 31 May 2024
AvTalk Episode 269: Extreme turbulence
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we discuss the extreme turbulence encountered by Singapore Airlines’ flight SQ321 that led to the death of one passenger and serious injuries to dozens of others. We…
00:39:15 |
Fri 24 May 2024
AvTalk Episode 268: Not-so-deferred prosecution?
On this episode of AvTalk, the US Department of Justice finds Boeing violated the terms of its 2021 deferred prosecution agreement and Congress passes the FAA reauthorization and we dig in to see wha…
00:47:34 |
Fri 17 May 2024
AvTalk Episode 267: Falsifying records
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, employees at Boeing’s 787 assembly facility in South Carolina were falsifying inspection records. Spirit Aerosystems loses nearly as much in the first quarter of 202…
00:36:19 |
Fri 10 May 2024
AvTalk Episode 266: A new challenger emerges
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we learn that Embraer is considering a challenge to the Airbus-Boeing duopoly with a new mainline single-aisle aircraft of its own.
Indigo orders up to 100 Airbus A…
Indigo orders up to 100 Airbus A…
00:50:06 |
Fri 03 May 2024
AvTalk Episode 265: Scott Bateman’s Hercules
On this week’s episode, we welcome current commercial pilot and former RAF captain Scott Bateman to discuss his new book, Hercules: First in. Last Out. The story of an RAF legend. Listen now to find …
01:03:10 |
Fri 26 Apr 2024
AvTalk Episode 264: Stolen gold and expensive eels
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, escalating retaliatory attacks between Iran and Israel and their effects on global air travel, congressional hearings sharpen the focus on Boeing’s problems, and Uni…
00:49:50 |
Fri 19 Apr 2024
AvTalk Episode 263: Another whistle blows
Thousands of extra planes take to the skies and New Jersey experiences an earthquake. And that’s just through Monday this week. We then hear from a fresh whistleblower at Boeing who alleges that some…
00:41:24 |
Fri 12 Apr 2024
AvTalk Episode 262: Striking for the right to strike
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, a plane crash lands and then crashes into another plane that crashed a few months earlier. Pratt and Whitney may have a new problem on their hands. The FAA’s mental …
00:35:35 |
Fri 05 Apr 2024
AvTalk Episode 261: How the aviation industry is reacting to GPS spoofing
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, we welcome AIN Media Group editor-in-chief Matt Thurber to discuss how the aviation industry is reacting to GPS spoofing and jamming. Plus, major leadership changes …
01:02:54 |
Fri 29 Mar 2024
AvTalk Episode 260: Beware the chair
On this episode of AvTalk, an update on the inflight upset experienced by a LATAM 787, the problem with popular media’s hyper focus on aviation incidents, and we dig in to the report detailing what a…
00:42:35 |
Fri 22 Mar 2024
AvTalk Episode 259: Asleep at the sidestick
On this episode of AvTalk, Batik Air pilots asleep on the flight deck, a LATAM flight experiences an inflight upset, and Boeing’s problems only seem to be getting bigger.
Batik Air pilots were asleep…
Batik Air pilots were asleep…
00:51:37 |
Fri 15 Mar 2024
AvTalk Episode 258: With respect to documentation
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, JetBlue and Spirit walk away, American Airlines adds to its order book, and the NTSB isn’t pleased with Boeing.
JetBlue and Spirit call it quits
JetBlue and Spirit a…
JetBlue and Spirit call it quits
JetBlue and Spirit a…
00:38:53 |
Fri 08 Mar 2024
AvTalk Episode 257: 30 minutes of bad decisions
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, following a highly critical report by a panel of aviation safety experts, the FAA gives Boeing 90 days to explain how its going to get its act together. We review a …
00:43:13 |
Fri 01 Mar 2024
AvTalk Episode 256: A bad day in Belgrade
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, a Marathon Airlines E195 operating for Air Serbia strikes the ILS array on departure, rogue ATC on the radio over Somalia, Air Canada fire its chatbot, and updates f…
00:41:16 |
Fri 23 Feb 2024
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