Latest SPC Episodes

Eighteen years ago, I was a student pilot with a recorder plugged into my headset, learning to land in front of the world. For Episode 100, I went back to those original recordings.You’ll hear the cockpit audio from my own training landings in 2008, what I said about them on the show back then, and...

MOSAIC took effect right in the middle of Oshkosh this year. A few months later, here’s what actually showed up, what it costs, and what it means if you’re learning to fly. This is my AirVenture 2026 industry report, the one I promised you back in Episode 94. I look at two big stories through...

How do you record your flight lessons? Nick, a listener in Houston, asked me the same question I got in 2009, so I flew with six recorders running at once, then tested five cables on the ground to find out what actually works in 2026. We start with why it matters: in the moment you...

Your logbook knows you flew. It has no idea what you learned. In this Briefing Room episode: five questions to ask after every flight (Surprise, Workload, Skill, Decision, and Goal), where the self-debrief came from (FITS and learner-centered grading), and a simple system to capture your goal, bridge it into your next flight, and close...

At AirVenture 2026 I sat down with Adriana, founder of FlyORKA, expecting an app demo. I walked away with a line I haven’t been able to shake: logging is not learning. Adriana spent her career as a flight test engineer, learning to fly airplanes nobody had flown before. That path led her into gliders, tailwheel,...