Lessons from the Cockpit show
6 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 2 years ago -Flying is described as long periods of boredom interrupted by short intermittent periods of extreme terror. On the Lessons from the Cockpit show, we debrief the most fascinating and intriguing pilots, aircrew members, maintainers, and aviation enthusiasts from all over the world. We investigate the tactics, techniques, and procedures created and cultivated during those extreme and extraordinary military, commercial, and private flight operations. Our exploration gives listeners practical advice on how the aviation world works and expands critical thinking expertise in the air and on the ground. Many of the stories are told here on Lessons from the Cockpit for the first time.
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Exercise ZZ TOP 94-6
October 18, 2021 21:13 - 26 minutes - 35.7 MBWelcome to this episode of Lessons from the Cockpit! There is one training event during my Air Force career I can truly look back at and say it was transformational. And it started with a 3M sticky note on my desk! Fearing I wasn't up to this task, my Commander let me and my counterpart use our imagination and initiative to create one of the most complex and dynamic training exercises in 18th Shogun Wing history, the flying wing based in Okinawa Japan. This exercise trained the largest co...
Second hour interview with Mike "COMA" Reed
October 18, 2021 21:08 - 49 minutes - 68 MBWelcome to this episode of the Lessons from the Cockpit show! Our conversation with Mike "Coma" Reed continues this week, telling us his story of integrating all the systems in the Lockheed F-22 Raptor, arguably the most lethal fighter jet in the world. Mike explains why the F-22 program and development performed so well and the F-35 program continues to have challenges. Age and treachery will always overcome youth and exuberance as Mike relates an event with a Russian TU-95 Bear Bomber of...
Interview with Mike "COMA" Reed
October 18, 2021 21:05 - 1 hour - 94.2 MBWelcome to this week's episode of Lessons from the Cockpit. This week my best friend from my boyhood Mike Reed callsign COMA was in Utah. He and I sat down to talk about his lessons from flying F-4 Phantoms during the Cold War in the Far East and aeronautical engineering. Sun Tzu's first chapter in The Art of War opens with the line "The art of war is of vital importance to the State." You may not have an interest in geopolitics but geopolitics will always have an interest in you. Coma exp...
Fast Asleep to Full Up War
October 18, 2021 21:00 - 33 minutes - 45.9 MBOn this episode of the Lessons from the Cockpit show: Twenty years ago this past Saturday, a phone call at 5:50 in the morning caused me to go from fast asleep to full up war in 30 minutes. The United States was under attack. While driving into work that day I was doing "Taker Math" in my head, the number of sorties and amount of gas it would take to keep all the fighters and Command and Control planes airborne to maintain a NO FLY ZONE over America, and these numbers will astound you! Ta...
Squawk 7700 and Ident
October 18, 2021 20:57 - 31 minutes - 43.4 MBOn this episode of the Lessons from the Cockpit show... Many aviators have flown into bad situations or worse killed because they didn't listen to the voice in their heads. The military has a term for this voice: GUT CHECK. Malcomb Gladwell has written an entire book about this gut check phenomenon. Recently I had a discussion with a close friend and both of our professions, he an EMT in Houston and myself a military pilot, realized we shared similar attributes in working problems. One att...
Aviate, Navigate and Communicate
October 18, 2021 20:54 - 1 hour - 86 MBThere is a three-word slogan every aviator memorizes to help deal with emergencies in the air. It's so simple and has saved countless pilots' lives. An instructor in Pilot Training taught me the five commandments of flying complimenting the three-word slogan. On a training sortie, I violated two of them and almost killed myself. A Navy SEAL taught me a slogan that guides their training philosophy. This slogan is a reason the US Military is the world's finest fighting force on the planet. ...