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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.

Emergency management mode

56 mins; April 03, 2026

AC8646 collides with an ARFF truck on the runway

62 hours 39 mins; March 27, 2026

Beware tall elk and low flying hog hunters

55 mins; March 20, 2026

When saving money costs lives

56 mins; March 13, 2026

War shuts down Middle East airspace

43 mins; March 06, 2026

Reading them the ROTOR Act

42 mins; February 27, 2026

Not how you want the day to go

51 mins; February 20, 2026

Frickin’ drones with frickin’ laser beams

55 mins; February 13, 2026

Finally, a 25 hour rule

53 mins; February 06, 2026

Systemic failures

53 mins; January 30, 2026

Want to buy a 747SP?

43 mins; January 23, 2026

Boeing has a banner year

37 mins; January 16, 2026

It’s the deicing that’ll get ya

50 mins; January 09, 2026

Our favorite conversations from 2025

34 mins; January 02, 2026

“Outrageous:” close calls near Venezuela

45 mins; December 19, 2025

How do you forget about a 737?

39 mins; December 12, 2025

Consider the airspace closed in its entirety

25 mins; December 05, 2025

Fatigue cracks, thrust levers, and sand ballast

52 mins; November 27, 2025

The A340-600 episode

63 hours 49 mins; November 21, 2025

Reasonable people

53 mins; November 14, 2025

UPS flight 2976

37 mins; November 07, 2025

It’s a retention issue

53 mins; October 31, 2025

Two statistically improbable events

33 mins; October 24, 2025

Dry Clean Only

50 mins; October 17, 2025

For engines for podcast

49 mins; October 10, 2025

What the Nuuk!?

60 hours 52 mins; October 03, 2025

Tunis to Nice, too close

65 hours 31 mins; September 26, 2025

Pay attention, get off the iPad!

32 mins; September 19, 2025

No supernatural demonic force

64 hours 51 mins; September 12, 2025

the Plovdiv mystery

47 mins; September 05, 2025

They got Nuuk’d

40 mins; August 29, 2025

Whinging about windowless window seats

39 mins; August 22, 2025

“Ongoing concern” concerns

54 mins; August 15, 2025

Stuck on the plane for 28 hours

56 mins; August 08, 2025

Acceptable deviation?

52 mins; August 01, 2025

Planes where they shouldn't be

42 mins; July 25, 2025

Lock the cat in the lav

47 mins; July 11, 2025

Overrun by squirrels

45 mins; July 04, 2025

Diversions and diversion tactics

46 mins; June 27, 2025

The crash of Air India flight 171

49 mins; June 20, 2025

Five flights to nowhere

42 mins; June 13, 2025

Raccoons on a plane

43 mins; June 06, 2025

They bounced the wheel right off

48 mins; May 30, 2025

Global gets off the ground

43 mins; May 23, 2025

About that Qatari 747

58 mins; May 16, 2025

What’s old is Newark again

40 mins; May 09, 2025

“All the brain damage of buying a whole airline”

30 mins; May 02, 2025

The (Q1) results are in

46 mins; April 25, 2025

The helicopter in the Hudson

40 mins; April 18, 2025

Growth has “largely stalled”

33 mins; April 11, 2025

World Champion Gas Ballooning

49 mins; April 04, 2025

Turn off the airport, and turn it on again

55 mins; March 28, 2025

It's good to have balloon insurance

28 mins; March 21, 2025

No LUV for a broken Heart

43 mins; March 14, 2025

“Engulfed in flames”

28 mins; March 07, 2025

Tower, how’d that happen?

49 mins; February 28, 2025

Upside down, but alive

46 mins; February 21, 2025

Everything is delayed 5-10 years

41 mins; February 14, 2025

The facts from Washington DC, Philadelphia, and Aktau

46 mins; February 07, 2025

Boom booms for the first time

53 mins; January 31, 2025

Oh baby baby

41 mins; January 24, 2025

A comforting musky scent

47 mins; January 17, 2025

Blowout, one year later

55 mins; January 10, 2025

Azerbaijan Airlines 8243 and Jeju Air 2216

0 secs; January 03, 2025

Our favorite conversations in 2024

58 mins; December 27, 2024

Let’s talk about the drones

44 mins; December 20, 2024

Boeing gets going again

41 mins; December 13, 2024

He used a helicopter to ask

24 mins; December 06, 2024

A fire, a crash, and a contract

31 mins; November 29, 2024

Severe turbulence, more bullets, and hundreds of hamsters

34 mins; November 22, 2024

Please don't shoot at the planes

38 mins; November 15, 2024

All right, everybody back to work

36 mins; November 08, 2024

Airplane facts with Max

48 mins; November 01, 2024

They strike on

33 mins; October 25, 2024

Boeing brings the battle axe

37 mins; October 18, 2024

The FAA doesn’t want headless pilots

45 mins; October 11, 2024

Escalation or the new normal?

62 hours 46 mins; October 04, 2024

How best and final is “best and final”?

32 mins; September 27, 2024

Leis, strikes, and stripped for parts

46 mins; September 20, 2024

How much cocaine can you fit in a Gulfstream?

46 mins; September 13, 2024

When protection doesn’t protect you

36 mins; September 06, 2024

When the door guy goes on vacation

52 mins; August 30, 2024

Just when everything was starting to go well

36 mins; August 23, 2024

VoePass 2283 crash discussion with Steve Giordano

41 mins; August 16, 2024

Hear ye, hear ye says the NTSB

41 mins; August 09, 2024

Boeing chooses its new CEO

53 mins; August 02, 2024

Gary O’Donnell, A321XLR head of program

57 mins; July 26, 2024

Finally, some good news for Boeing!

43 mins; July 19, 2024

Wait, who’s cleared for takeoff!?

42 mins; July 12, 2024

The NTSB puts Boeing in timeout

48 mins; July 04, 2024

International trash balloons

40 mins; June 28, 2024

Congress, Dutch roll, and bad titanium

37 mins; June 21, 2024

Reduced separation

41 mins; June 14, 2024

Boeing’s plan to fix itself

33 mins; June 07, 2024

Coming to an airplane near you, news from AIX 2024

41 mins; May 31, 2024

Extreme turbulence

39 mins; May 24, 2024

Not-so-deferred prosecution?

47 mins; May 17, 2024

Falsifying records

36 mins; May 10, 2024

A new challenger emerges

50 mins; May 03, 2024

Scott Bateman’s Hercules

63 hours 10 mins; April 26, 2024

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