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Aviation News Recap

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About this podcast

Dan Millican, Christy Wong, and Baylee Ward talk all about aviation—from discussing air disasters and plane crashes to the latest flying techniques and training. All to help the listener be better pilots and better people.

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Unknown Host hosts Aviation News Recap.

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Why Are the Victims Suing the UPS MD-11 Pilots? & More Aviation News

May 31, 202624m

In this weekly aviation news recap podcast, Dan discuss the fail at the Sydney drone show, the removal from the boarding area of a family with a 13 year old Tourettes son, the crash of a WWI triplane replica Fokker in Te

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United Whistleblower Fired? Why the NTSB Docket System Disappeared & More

May 24, 202628m

Aviation news for the week. The NTSB holds a two day hearing on the UPS MD-11 crash in Louisville– what we learned from it. A United captain was fired for allegedly whistleblowing. A Minnesota man claims that crows was w

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Dramatic Sea Rescue! Passengers to Sue Denver Airport & MoreDramatic Sea Rescue! Passengers to Sue Denver Airport & More

May 22, 2026

Weekly aviation news recap– Fedex has returned the MD-11’s to service after the tragedy in Louisville last fall. United CEO Scott Kirby in the news again, this time for flying American Airlines. Sporty’s founder Hal Shev

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#74 Nothing the Pilots Could Do

Feb 19, 202526m

Dan and Christy discuss the crash of Air Midwest 5481 that took 21 lives on January 8, 2003 at Charlotte International Airport. And now another 1900D has crashed in South Sudan just a few weeks ago.

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#73 Christy Changes Jobs?

Feb 12, 202541m

Dan and Christy talk about new career opportunities for her as an airline pilot, and also what the lifestyle is like working flying the big jets.

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#72 Talking Behind the Scenes of In The Hangar

Feb 5, 202525m

Dan and Christy pull the veil back on what it’s like to film the studio talk show “In The Hangar” and recall their favorite moments so far. Season 9 to record on March 7-8 2025.

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#71 Mike and Mark Patey – Origin Story

Jan 29, 202524m

: From the Archive, Dan and Christy, in the early months of Covid were able to meet Mike and Mark Patey for the first time and talk to them about how they got started.

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#70 Will FAA Medical Changes Impact You?

Jan 8, 202518m

FAA is implementing a couple new changes to the airman medical certificate, including different procedures for testing color blindness and classification of medicals that are deferred to the FAA for guidance. Dan talks w

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#69 VFR Flight Plans

Jan 1, 202515m

Dan and Christy talk about VFR Flight Plans and why they’re hardly used for today’s General Aviation pilot in the US.

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#68 How Being a Pilot Impacts Daily Life

Dec 30, 202423m

Merry Christmas from the TakingOff Team! Bryan Turn of JustPlaneSilly joins Dan and Christy to talk about how becoming a pilot has changed no pilot things in everyday life.

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#67 Christy Can’t Fly

Dec 12, 202436m

Dan and Christy talk updates in their lives, including what took Christy off flight status for a month and how you can teach an old dog new tricks as Dan learns something new and challenging in aviation.

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#66 Clemente

Oct 30, 202420m

Salvador Perez of the Kansas City Royals is announced as the 3034 Roberto Clemente Award Winner. We go back to 1972 and examine the plane crash that took the life of MLB Great Roberto Clemente. The Roberto Clemente Award

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#65 Did You Know THIS Person Is A Pilot

Oct 23, 202423m

Dan and Christy talk about the list of celebrity pilots, beyond the very commonly known ones, there are quite a few you might be surprised to learn are pilots. How many did you know? And yes, we left out Alton Brown and

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#64 These Pilots Died UPSIDE DOWN

Oct 16, 202429m

From the In The Hangar archives, Dan and Christy interview DPE Joe Casey about the physiology of Spatial Disorientation and how easy it is for a person to get upside down and never realize it. The condition has led to ma

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#63 Safe to Drive Than Fly?

Oct 9, 202429m

Dan and Christy sort through the data to determine if it is indeed safer to fly versus drive. To come to the correct conclusion, you must separate commercial airline travel from General Aviation. The data comes from the

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#62 Garmin vs Everyone Else

Oct 2, 202431m

Garmin or Aspen/Genesys? Dan and Christy talk about whats new, including upgrades to avionics in both of their planes and Dan’s upcoming helicopter training.

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#61 Tribe STOLE His Plane

Sep 25, 20241h 10m

William LeBaron recounts his story of landing on an airstrip owned by a Tribe in Arizona. LONG: Dan talks with William LeBaron about his experience landing at a private airtrip on a Reservation in Arizona, believing he h

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#60 The Most AMAZING Plane Crash Survival Story

Sep 18, 202458m

Dan Bass, a single pilot on a small plane, passed out because of carbon monoxide poisoning while flying. He awoke crashed in a snowy field. His story is riveting. Dan and Christy talked to him first in studio, then got a

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#59 Why Did This ATR Crash?

Sep 11, 202430m

With the recent Brazil crash of an ATR-72, Dan and Christy look back to 1994 and discuss the American Eagle Flight 4184 that crashed near Chicago on Halloween. The plane had been put into a hold in icing that overran the

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#58 Joey Johnson DPE

Sep 4, 202437m

Is the DPE shortage getting worse? Designated Pilot Examiner and Major Airliner Line Check Airman Joey Johnson joins Dan @TakingOffDan and Christy @PilotChristy for a talk about life as a DPE and as a Line Check Airman.

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