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The Captain Who Flew Too Low on His Last Day (Audio-Only Version)

4/20/202647 min

Petter and Ben are back with a lot to talk about. The geopolitical situation in the Middle East is starting to hit aviation, an Icelandair captain's retirement flight is making headlines for all the wrong reasons, and a BA crew reminds us why the go-around decision is the most professional call a pilot can make.

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Clips

757DDlow flyby over town
PilotDDreaction: cool or careless?
From celebration to investigation
Breaking the 1,000-foot rule
FODDcareer on the line
Why rules exist in aviation
Rules are written in blood
Textbook rejected landing call
Resisting carry-on-itis
Jet fuel will get hit first

Transcript preview

First 90 seconds

  1. Petter Hörnfeldt· Host0:00

    [upbeat music] Hi, everyone, and very welcome to yet another episode of Captains Speaking. My name is Petter Hörnfeldt, and as always, I have the lovely- Ben Watts ... Ben Watts with me. How are you, Ben?

  2. Ben Watts· Host0:12

    Well, yeah, very well, very well. Welcome, everybody. Welcome back to the podcast. It is good to be back. Petter, how are you?

  3. Petter Hörnfeldt· Host0:17

    I am very good, I have to say. Very good. I am feeling alert. I'm feeling that the, uh, spring is coming. I'm feeling that... Yeah. No, no, I, I have very little to complain about. And, and also, we've just come off a, a wonderful, uh, Easter vacation.

  4. Ben Watts· Host0:33

    Nice.

  5. Petter Hörnfeldt· Host0:33

    Which, by the way, for everyone who's wondering, I know that we have been away for about three weeks now. We've had Easter in between, and we've also had the launch of my new channel, Black Box, which happened last Thursday. So my deepest apologies for everyone who was, um, disappointed that we didn't release an episode last week, but here we are.

  6. Ben Watts· Host0:53

    Yeah.

  7. Petter Hörnfeldt· Host0:54

    So hopefully you will enjoy this. How are you?

  8. Ben Watts· Host0:55

    Oh, I'm good. Yeah, I'm good. I'm, uh, usual. It's busy. Uh, had a bit of time off over Easter, which was nice, to be fair, so I... Uh, all the family around, and, uh, it was just nice to have a bit of time a- time away from work. So that was nice. Uh, but yeah, back into the throes now, so busy, busy. A lot of time in the sim, and we're at that time of year, as you know, you will remember, Petter, where we're doing the v- uh, fire training, the recurrent fire training now, which is, uh... Yeah, so for everyone watching- Mm ... every three years, we, we... The, the, all pilots have to undergo recurrent fire training. So we put them in a, a chamber,

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