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Welcome back, SPC listeners.

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If you're checking your podcast app
and wondering if you accidentally

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subscribed to a history channel, don't
worry, your ears aren't deceiving you.

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It's just me, Bill, your
humble host, back at it.

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I know I've had more starts and
stops than a student following

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taxi instructions at a, I don't
know, like a Bravo airport or Yuma.

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Just trust me, it's a
lot of starts and stops.

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Anyway, today we're gonna rip apart
exactly what's different this time

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and why it matters in episode 86
of the Student Pilot Cast: Fly,

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Learn, Repeat, our new mission

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I know, it's true.

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If pod fading were a rating, I'd be
able to write the study manual for it.

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But hey, I'll just start calling it
a holding pattern or lost comms or

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something that sounds a little better.

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All right, I'll stop with the
aviation metaphors for now, and

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I'll let you know that I've finally
been cleared for the approach.

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Sorry, another one.

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My bad.

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Anyway, a lot has changed since 2008
when we first started this thing.

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Back then, I was just a guy
trying to figure out which way

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was up and why the airplane kept
trying to turn left on takeoff.

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Today, I'm a working CFI and double
I, and while we know that stands for

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Certified Flight Instructor, some days
it feels more like constantly figuring it

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Out.

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All right, no, I know that was terrible.

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I guess now that my kids are all
grown, I've got the dad jokes just

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flowing out of me spontaneously
'cause nobody's around to hear them.

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So sorry, but not that sorry.

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But back to what we were doing here.

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Even though I'm the one in the right
seat now, I've realized something.

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The more I teach, the more I realize
I'm still just a student with an

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extra piece of plastic in my wallet.

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The always a student mindset isn't just
a motto for me or even for the podcast.

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It's a philosophy that I think helps us
stay frosty and stay alive, So before

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I get into what the show actually
looks like now, I wanna take just

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a second on the new tagline because
I don't want it to be just one of

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those things that's on the cover art.

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I want you to know where it came from.

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When I started this thing back in
2008, the old tagline was "Learning

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to fly in front of the world," and
that was exactly what I was doing.

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I was a student pilot.

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I was figuring it out in real time,
embarrassing myself on the radio,

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bouncing landings, and apparently deciding
the world needed to hear all of it.

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That was the whole premise of the show.

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Then I got my private and even
eventually finished my private

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training on the podcast.

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Then many years later, I got my instrument
rating and kept going, eventually

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earning my commercial certificate,
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And somewhere along the way, I think
I made a quiet little realization.

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No matter how far along I was getting
in this new career of mine and in this

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training, I always felt like a student.

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If I started thinking of myself as
someone who had arrived at a big

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goal of mine, like I had crossed
some invisible line from student to

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instructor, I would get humbled, as
aviation tends to do, and that would send

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me right back into that student mode.

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And then I started teaching, and I'll
tell you, nothing will humble you faster

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than taking on a responsibility like that.

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It's a lot.

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It takes a lot.

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A lot of empathy, a lot of knowledge,
a lot of skill, a lot of patience, and

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maybe even some things I actually have.

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But seriously, it's a huge responsibility,
and the interactions with the students

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and the experiences, the discussions,
trials that I've gone through with

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them have taught me more than I ever
could have learned from the PHAK.

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maybe more importantly,
teaching makes me stay sharp.

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It makes me stay in the game, so to speak.

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Always learning, looking things up,
developing lesson plans, and nothing

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causes you to learn a topic better
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in a way that helps them learn it.

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It's awesome.

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So I've been learning a lot over
the last 18 months since I started

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teaching, and it's helped me realize
how important having the always

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a student mentality really is.

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Here are a few things
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First, when you're not learning
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competency are definitely degrading.

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In a very large study published back
in nineteen ninety-eight, researchers

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took a, a look at decades of data across
high-consequence technical fields.

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They found that significant skill decay
occurs after just three hundred and

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sixty-five days of non-use, or a year.

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But here's the important thing: that a
measurable degradation starts after only

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twenty-eight days if the skill isn't
constantly practiced or reinforced.

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In a well-known study done by NASA,
the Use it or Lose it study, as it's

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colloquially called, they found out
that specifically in aviation, cognitive

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skills degrade very quickly when not
being challenged, used, and practiced.

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interestingly, the stick and
rudder skills weren't the ones

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that degraded the fastest.

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They were much more durable
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But we all know the head work and the
decision-making tends to be much more

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important to safety than being able
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They're both important, of course, but the
former causes more death than the latter.

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Another reason to always be learning
is that technology in the cockpit, and

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even mundane things like regulation
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They're constantly changing.

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Things tend to change over time, and it
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Think about how technologically advanced
some of our avionics are these days,

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and if you aren't constantly training,
reading, and learning from others about

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them, you're going to someday find
yourself relying on the technology but not

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knowing how to effectively leverage it.

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That distraction of misunderstanding
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cost you, as we all know.

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When things change, we
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Finally, continual learning helps with
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our capabilities and safety margins.

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We often hear that when something bad
happens and we're under pressure, we

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don't rise to the occasion, we sink
to our most recent level of training.

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I can personally attest to•

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this from my own experience, but
that's a story for another time.

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If we're not learning and training,
that fall when we're under

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pressure is gonna be a long one.

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And Kent and I have talked about training
to push the envelope one corner at a time.

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This is how we get better and better.

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Yes, this happens during formal
training, of course, but it happens

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every time we fly if we treat
every experience as a learning one.

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Good pilots are those who realize
that they never know everything, and

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that every flight is an important
opportunity to learn something new.

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This is how a newly minted pilot becomes
an experienced, safe pilot over many

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years of training or flying, because those
are the same thing, flying and training.

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This podcast is dedicated to that
training process, formal or informal.

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The name, "The Student Pilot Cast", is
apropos since we're all students of this

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flying thing if we're doing it right.

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So the new tagline for the podcast,
"Fly, Learn, Repeat," is my attempt

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to try to encapsulate that ethos.

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It's not just a tagline.

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It's kind of like a checklist item
or a way of approaching learning.

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It's the reminder that the moment
I think I'm done learning, I've

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already started going backward.

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So the fly part is important.

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It's when we gain our experience
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skills, and sometimes that's with
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The learn part is what we do to
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part, but it also means we should be
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What went well?

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What could we have done better, and why?

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And sometimes, what was just
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avoid at all costs in the future?

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Most importantly, what can we
learn to be better next time?

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Sometimes, of course, it also means
reading, staying ready for when

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things don't go quite as planned.

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Finally, repeat.

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Because it should remind us to never stop.

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Never stop practicing, never stop
learning, and never stop moving forward.

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This tagline is perfect for me and
for this podcast because seriously,

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it's why I keep doing this show.

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Talking to you all, hearing from
you, producing content that forces

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me to actually articulate what
I know and why I know it, that's

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part of how I keep learning, too.

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That's part of an ethos that I
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own flying and in my own teaching.

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I just think it encapsulates what I'm
all about when it comes to aviation, and

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even beyond aviation, for that matter.

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So now you know.

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Getting inside my brain can be scary,
but hopefully you agree to some extent,

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and hopefully that's why you're here

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All right, so let's move on to
the other big change, and this is

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probably the one you'll notice most
immediately, and that's how we're

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organizing the show going forward.

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It's changing slightly.

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Honestly, one of the reasons I've burned
out in the past is that single episodes

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sometimes tried to do everything.

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Long interviews, solo discussions,
cockpit audio, whatever random

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thing I was thinking about,
sometimes all in the same episode.

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It was a lot to produce, and I think
it was a lot to track as a listener,

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So we're gonna do some organizing to
hopefully clean that up a little bit.

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Don't get me wrong, I'm still
gonna talk about whatever

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random thing I'm thinking about.

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I'm just gonna put a
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The show now has four distinct series.

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Each one has its own thing going on.

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The first is the Cockpit Series.

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You're gonna hear actual flights.

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Sometimes watch them if I've got
video with real students, real

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pilots, real radio calls, real
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Not recreations, not here's how it's
supposed to be, but the real thing.

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I'll, as usual, add voiceover layer
afterwards where I walk you through

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what was happening, what I was
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thinking, what the student was doing
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This will all seem familiar to those of
you who've been around a while with me.

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This was sort of the mainstay for much
of the previous content on the podcast.

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The second is Beyond the Checkride.

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Again, if you've been listening recently,
this will sound kind of familiar as well.

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This one's a conversation, me and our
buddy Kent, who's been flying real

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world general aviation for years now.

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Here's the premise.

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The checkride tests whether
you can fly and have basic

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aeronautical decision-making skills.

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Then everyone starts really flying, starts
learning what's ha- what happens in the

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real world, goes back to that experience
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But some of these things are practical
skills that just can't fit into the ACS,

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and many students don't get a chance to
learn a lot of them within the confines

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of a structured flight school environment.

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so Kent and I are gonna get into some
of the stuff maybe your instructor never

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really tells you while you're training.

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What does your cross-country
decision-making actually look like when

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you're doing it alone for the first time?

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How do you handle weather as a newly
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reckless or never leaving the pattern?

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What does it mean to fly with
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feel responsible for them?

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Heck, I don't know.

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How do I even operate a fuel
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All of these are previous topics
covered in Beyond the Checkride

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episodes, so you hopefully get the idea.

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This series will sound like two guys
who've been flying for a while, because

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we have, just shooting the breeze
about an aviation topic that we learned

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after the checkride, and hopefully
that's what makes it useful and fun

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All right, the third series is "The
Briefing Room", short, tactical, and solo.

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Just me, or usually just me anyway,
10, maybe 15 minutes on one thing, a

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specific technique, an ADM concept,
a regulation I see people getting

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wrong all the time, or something I
just learned or taught that seems like

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it would be helpful to all of you.

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No tangents, or at least fewer
tangents than usual, which I'll

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be honest, is a lot of tangents.

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But the idea is that if you've
got 15 minutes in the car on the

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way to the airport or somewhere
else, this is the one you throw on.

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Quick win, hopefully.

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And I'll try to keep it to
maybe one terrible pun per

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episode, but it's not a promise.

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I'll, I'll try.

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And then finally, there's
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This is the interview format.

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We're going to shows like Oshkosh, Sun
and Fun, and AOPA Fly-Ins, et cetera.

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But also museums, CAF Wings, anywhere
really where there's a chance to sit

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down with people in this community
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Not only just household names, though
hopefully we'll have some of those, but

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also others who have something to offer.

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Maybe a DPE who's seen 1,000 check rides
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Maybe a mechanic who understands these
machines at a level most of us never will.

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The CFIs who figure something
out about teaching that changed

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how their students learn.

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Really, it's about the people whose
stories that don't always necessarily

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make it to the proverbial magazine
cover, but absolutely should.

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Aviation has always been
full of remarkable people.

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I wanna bring you into
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So four series, one feed, and
I'm gonna need considerably more

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caffeine than I was consuming in
2008, which is saying something.

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No, I'm just kidding.

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I don't even drink caffeine anymore, so
I'm actually hoping this makes things

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go smoother for all of you and for me.

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You might also notice a bit
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tagline and the organization.

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We've changed cover art, logos, et
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to get things a little more updated.

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But that shouldn't matter
much from your perspective.

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Maybe just a slightly different
look in your podcast app of choice.

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So for the first four new episodes,
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series, and they'll be easy to tell
which one they are in the feed.

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After that while I'll try to keep
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be more of one series than another,
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Or if we get some interesting
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you know, we might stick on The
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That said, we'll tweak it over
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on what's working and what isn't.

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So reach out and let us know.

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And there are a few ways to do that,
by the way, including a new one.

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You can always email me at
bill at studentpilotcast.com

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or use the contact form on the
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But on that contact page, you'll see a
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You can also find that page at
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There, you can record an audio
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right to us at the podcast.

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You have 90 seconds to
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So if you have a question, a comment,
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too good to keep to yourself, use
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it onto a future episode of the podcast.

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So like I said, reach out.

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Let us hear from you.

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I'll put a link to that Radio Check page
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So I'm really excited to see where we go
from here, and I'm also really excited

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to start reconnecting with all of you.

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I've really missed you guys.

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Let's make it fun while we
learn as much as we can.

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I'm grateful for the little break because
it made me reconsider how I was doing

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everything, what we were focused on, and
what we want to center on going forward.

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As you know, professionalism keeps
us safe, personality keeps us flying

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and keeps flying fun, and all of
our relationships keep it worth it.

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Now, let's get to work.

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Still flying, still learning,
and it turns out the holding

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pattern had a purpose after all.