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 255: Grounded for the dumbest of reasons
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, United Airlines’ fleet of A321neos is temporarily grounded for the dumbest of reasons. Plus the NTSB comes out swinging at the FAA demanding new rules requiring 25 h…
00:39:24 |
Fri 16 Feb 2024
AvTalk Episode 254: The bolts, they are missing
On this episode of AvTalk, we review the NTSB’s preliminary report on Alaska Airlines flight 1282, fresh quality issues affecting some 737 MAX, and Finnair gets out the scales to weigh some of its pa…
00:44:25 |
Fri 09 Feb 2024
AvTalk Episode 253: Time traveling with Taylor Swift and turtles
On this episode of AvTalk, we welcome back The Air Current’s founder and editor Jon Ostrower to pull back from Boeing’s immediate crisis and take stock of the state of the company. We look at the cha…
01:13:08 |
Fri 02 Feb 2024
AvTalk Episode 252: Let’s inspect more 737s
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, a bit of a different kind of episode to start. And then its onto more Boeing 737 inspections, angry airlines, and a perfectly executed emergency landing.
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00:32:41 |
Fri 26 Jan 2024
AvTalk Episode 251: 737-9 MAX inspections and investigations
On this episode of AvTalk, we take a deep look at the actions by the FAA, airlines, and Boeing in the wake of the accident involving Alaska Airlines flight 1282. Working through the time line of stat…
00:50:18 |
Fri 19 Jan 2024
AvTalk Episode 250: Alaska Airlines flight 1282
On this episode of AvTalk, Ian and Jason are joined by Nomadic Aviation Group’s Steve Giordano to discuss the Alaska Airlines flight 1282 accident. We break down what we know so far about the explosi…
01:10:05 |
Thu 11 Jan 2024
AvTalk Episode 249: Japan Airlines flight 516
On this episode of AvTalk, we explore what we know so far about the collision between Japan Airlines flight JL516 and a Japan Coast Guard aircraft in Tokyo on 2 January. We spend time laying out the …
00:58:21 |
Fri 05 Jan 2024
AvTalk Episode 248: Our favorite conversations of 2023
As we close out the year we look back on our a few of our favorite AvTalk conversations from 2023. There were many great ones to choose from, so visit our archive to hear them all. We’ve picked out a…
00:40:48 |
Fri 29 Dec 2023
AvTalk Episode 247: He’s a stowaway!
On this episode of AvTalk, we scratch our heads trying to figure out the story of a stowaway who managed to make it from Copenhagen to Los Angeles aboard an SAS flight. Stopped by a US customs office…
00:37:03 |
Fri 22 Dec 2023
AvTalk Episode 246: Getting goosed
On this episode of AvTalk, Jason is still alive, Ian makes his way home from Sweden, passengers on a Delta flight are waylaid in Goose Bay, and Boeing picks a Pope. Ian and Jason are back in action t…
00:29:46 |
Fri 15 Dec 2023
AvTalk Episode 245: Alaska says Aloha
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Gabriel Leigh joins Ian in Stockholm to discuss his travels for the Flightradar24 YouTube channel, including a very exciting trip coming up in January. And we speak …
00:35:55 |
Fri 08 Dec 2023
AvTalk Episode 244: Olov Lindström: how to land a 787 in Antarctica
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, Jason checks in from Taipei and Ian sits down with Olov Lindström, Norse Atlantic Airways Fleet Chief pilot and the first person to captain a 787 to Antarctica. We l…
00:38:31 |
Fri 01 Dec 2023
AvTalk Episode 243: Turkey, mashed potatoes, and Shinkansen
We bring you an abbreviated Thanksgiving week episode, partly because of the Thanksgiving holiday, but mostly because Jason is wandering around Japan on high speed trains. We have some updates on sto…
00:09:05 |
Fri 24 Nov 2023
AvTalk Episode 242: Quit horsing around back there
On this week’s episode of AvTalk, a horse escapes its stall onboard a 747 flying from New York to Liege. A panel of experts says decades of congressional meddling and underfunding of the FAA introduc…
00:52:34 |
Fri 17 Nov 2023
AvTalk Episode 241: Want to run the most secretive airline in the world?
On this episode of AvTalk, we learn that the arraignment of the pilot who threatened his captain with a gun has been delayed—because he is on active duty military service outside the country. A Titan…
00:39:35 |
Fri 10 Nov 2023
AvTalk Episode 240: First officer threatens to shoot captain over medical diversion
On this episode of AvTalk, we’re flabbergasted to learn about the events aboard a Delta flight last August as the first officer threatened to shoot the captain if they diverted the flight due to an o…
00:33:36 |
Fri 03 Nov 2023
AvTalk Episode 239: Event Horizon
On this episode of AvTalk, we spend a full third of the episode attempting to understand what happened on Horizon Air flight 2059 after an off-duty Alaska Airlines pilot sitting in the flight deck ju…
00:51:25 |
Fri 27 Oct 2023
AvTalk Episode 238: The greatest reinvention of an airline in the history of aviation
On this week’s AvTalk, Jason Rosewell from Infinite Flight joins us to discuss the new partnership between Flightradar24 and Infinite Flight that makes our new 3D view so amazing. We also learn more …
00:59:19 |
Fri 20 Oct 2023
AvTalk Episode 237: The civil aviation situation in Israel
On this week’s episode, we take stock of rapidly evolving civil aviation situation in Israel. How are airlines reacting, which are halting flights, and which are still flying to Tel Aviv. Elsewhere, …
00:35:16 |
Fri 13 Oct 2023
AvTalk Episode 236: Into the Airchive!
On this episode of AvTalk, we chat with curator of theAirchive.net, Chris Sloan. United Airlines adds more aircraft to its order book, SAS will say hello to Air France+KLM and goodbye to Star Allianc…
00:57:49 |
Fri 06 Oct 2023
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