The Hangar Z Podcast
A podcast where we explore the personnel and equipment behind the missions in Public Safety Aviation.
- Update frequency
- every 3 days
- Average duration
- 73 minutes
- Episodes
- 291
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
Episode 91- APSCON 2023 Orlando, Florida with APSA'S CEO Dan Schwarzbach and APSA'S President Richard Bray.
Welcome to episode 91 of The Hangar Z Podcast Brought to you by Vertical Valor Magazine.
The Hangar Z Podcast was honored to be asked by the Airborne Public Safety Association (APSA) to join them at t…
Episode 90- Erik Sabiston's Journey from Off the Grid Musician to Military Medevac Pilot and Aviation Advocate Part 2
Welcome to episode 90 of The Hangar Z Podcast Brought to you by Vertical Valor Magazine.
Join us for part two of this two-part series with Erik Sabiston. During the episode, he recounts a combat medev…
Episode 89- Erik Sabiston's Journey from Off the Grid Musician to Military Medevac Pilot and Aviation Advocate Part 1
Welcome to episode 89 of The Hangar Z Podcast Brought to you by Vertical Valor Magazine.
Our guest, Erik Sabiston, developed a lifelong fascination with aviation as a young man. A former US Army Black…
Episode 88- Exploring ICARUS the View Limiting Training Device with Nick Sonopoli and Matt Johnson
Welcome to episode 88 of The Hangar Z Podcast Brought to you by Vertical Valor Magazine.
In this episode, we chat with Nick Sinopoli, the inventor of ICARUS, and Matt Johnson, a seasoned pilot and che…
Episode 87- Iron Sharpening Iron: Insights from training with SR3 and Riverside County Sheriff's Aviation Unit
Welcome to episode 87 of The Hangar Z Podcast Brought to you by Vertical Valor Magazine.
This is an exciting episode as it is the first episode done in collaboration with Vertical Valor Magazine for t…
Episode 86- Balancing Work-Life and Mental Health in Public Safety Aviation: An In-Depth Conversation with Flight Medic Jonathan Carolla
Welcome to episode 86 of The Hangar Z Podcast Brought to you by Vertical Valor Magazine.
How do you maintain a healthy work-life balance in such a high-stress industry like aviation and public safety?…
Episode 85- Mechanical Mastery: Marc Foreman & Public Safety Aviation
Welcome to episode 85 of The Hangar Z Podcast Brought to you by Vertical Valor Magazine.
In this episode, we chat with Marc Foreman a Helicopter Technician A&P and IA from the Oklahoma City Police Dep…
Episode 84- MD Helicopters with Brad Pedersen and Jack Harris
Welcome to episode 84 of The Hangar Z Podcast Brought to you by Vertical Valor Magazine.
In this episode, we sit down with Brad Pedersen and Jack Harris from MD Helicopters. Brad Pedersen is the Presi…
Episode 83- Utah DPS Aviation with Chief Pilot Luke Bowman
Welcome, to episode 83 of The Hangar Z Podcast Brought to you by Vertical Valor Magazine.
In this episode, we sit down with Luke Bowman, Utah DPS's chief pilot.
Utah DPS has an outstanding program and …
Episode 82- How to Helicopter with Faith Ortega
Welcome, to episode 82 of The Hangar Z Podcast Brought to you by Vertical Valor Magazine.
In this episode, we get to highlight some of the good work being done by the personnel we consider to be the b…
Episode 81- Ten Feet Tall and Not Quite Bullet Proof with Australia's Cameron Hardiman
Welcome to Episode 81 Brought to you by Vertical Valor Magazine
As we continue our series on surviving a career in public safety we bring you a conversation with Cameron Hardiman the author of Ten Fe…
Episode 80- APSCON 2023 Preview with APSA's Dan Schwarzbach and Richard Bray
Welcome to episode 80 of The Hangar Z Podcast brought to you by Vertical Valor Magazine.
In this special episode, we sit down and chat with Dan Schwarzbach the Executive Director and CEO of the Airbor…
Episode 79- When Tragedy Strikes with LAPD's Jack Schonely
Welcome to Episode 79 of the Hangar Z Podcast. Brought to you by Vertical Valor Magazine.
The episodes we are releasing this month center around physically and mentally surviving a career in public sa…
Episode 78- RJ Garwood on Survival
Episode 78 of The Hangar Z Podcast is brought to you by Vertical Valor Magazine.
This is one of our most important episodes ever. We got the opportunity to sit down with our friend RJ Garwood from H…
Episode 77- HAI Special #3 with Amy McMullen and Shawn Bruton from Metro Aviation
Episode 77 of The Hangar Z Podcast brought to you by Vertical Valor Magazine is live.
I didn’t make it to HAI due to our snowplcalypse here in Southern California, Jeff was there and did an excellent …
Episode 76- HAI Special #2 with Diane Dollar from Forever on the Fly
Episode 76 of The Hangar Z Podcast brought to you by Vertical Valor Magazine is live.
I Didn’t make it to HAI due to our snowplcalypse here in Southern California, Jeff was there and did an excellent …
Episode 75- HAI Special #1 The San Diego Tank Rampage with Tactical Flying's Phil Cady and Matt ZDunich Featuring a Special Co-Host
Welcome to episode 75 of the Hangar Z Podcast brought to you by Vertical Valor Magazine.
I didn’t make it to HAI due to our snowpocalypse here in Southern California, Jeff was there and did an excelle…
Episode 74- The Southern California Blizzard, Goodwin's Market and the Johnstone's
Welcome to episode 74 of the Hangar Z Podcast brought to you by Vertical Valor Magazine.
Last week a historic snowstorm began which eventually ended up dropping 10 feet of snow on our community.
Many …
Episode 73- Samantha Poirier Northern Colorado EMS Pilot
Welcome to episode 73 of the Hangar Z Podcast
In this episode, we sit down and chat with Samantha Poirier. Samantha is an EMS pilot flying for Reach Air Medical in Northern Colorado.
Samantha has a ver…
Episode 72- Riverside County Sheriff's "Rescue 9" APSA Aircrew of the year award for 2022
Welcome to episode 72 of the Hangar Z Podcast.
This is a unique episode for a few reasons. Jason Quinn from the Real ResQ Podcast and I have teamed up to create a podcast mashup.
This will be episode 1…