Plane Tales

The View from Our Side of the Cockpit Door

Plane Tales is a leisure podcast hosted by Capt Nick, with 300 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Capt Nick hosts Plane Tales, a leisure show with 300 episodes published.

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  Plane Tales

  RAF Form 414, Volume 39

  Jul 19, 202619 min

  With the influx of new Airbus airframes, Virgin needed more pilots and not just to occupy the right hand seat… there were opportunities for promotion to Captain much earlier than had been the norm. When I joined the time to command was about 8 years. Looking back I did my first sector with Virgin in July 1994 and it was now November 96, 2 years 4 months later and I was already starting my pre-command training.   A typical month of Tornado flying might accru 25 hours in 15 sorties. As an airline pilot I could easily do that in 2 sectors!   Who wouldn’t want an expenses paid trip to a tropical island?   We were headed to the fabled island home of the extinct Dodo   The result of a Flight Management computer issue was commonly the PLEASE WAIT message   When the Kai Tak IGS approach wasn’t available, we would usually get a VOR approach over Chung Chau and Stonecutters island   Roy and Curly certainly pulled my leg!   The pre command Sim was certainly a challenge   Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Jeppesen Charts.

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  Plane Tales

  RAF Form 414, Volume 38

  Jul 17, 202619 min

  And my heart went! Thump, thump, thump; thump, thump! I was lying in the King Edward the 7th hospital imagining Phil Collins playing drums on my heart while watching the monitor and wondering how I was going to support my family after I’d been permanently grounded with this condition that had come right out of the blue. The specialist had confirmed my GP’s diagnosis of…   Digoxin was a plant extract from Foxgloves used as far back as Roman times!   Good old Cookie.   The brilliant Professional Pilot’s Rumour Network   JFK in the snow   The fleet of snow ploughs   Getting airborne in a blizzard   Finally emerging from a line of thunder storms   The Master Warning activates   Images used under the Creative Commons licence with thanks to the Royal Air Force, the Civil Aviation Authority, The Roman 13th Legion, and the PPRUNE website.  

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  Plane Tales

  Basam Aggad Interview

  Apr 23, 202615 min

  We last spoke to Basam when he was doing his Jet Upset Training but now that he has his dream job it was appropriate that we should chat again on one of his London layovers. In particular, he is flying around a war zone which presents additional challenges to a civil airline pilot.   Basam in London near St Paul’s Cathedral   Post interview    

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  Plane Tales

  RAF Form 414, Volume 36

  Apr 23, 202619 min

  A flock of seagulls had chosen that moment to break ground from the grass beside the runway and fly across our path. They disappeared under the nose as we climbed away and cleaned the aircraft up… no noise of an impact but then we noticed the No 2 engine’s N1 vibration number was pulsing and reading a bit high. So starts another Tale from my flying logbook.   Marauding seagulls at Shannon   The A340 Cockpit   Setting the landing flaps to Config 3   JFK VOR to 22L   The route LHR to HKG   Landing at Kai Tak   Trying to maintain landing recency   Images published under Creative Commons licence with thanks to Nick Anderson, Google Maps and the FAA.

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  Plane Tales

  RAF Form 414, Volume 37

  Mar 19, 202616 min

  The next tale from my RAF Logbook, albeit now being filled with civilian flights for Virgin Atlantic Airways…   A Virgin A340-300 going round the checkerboard at Kai TAk airport, Hong Kong.   The checkerboard approach from the flight deck.   The treasured Hong Kong landing authorisation card.   The A340 fuel tank layout.   The result of the Air France ground fire.   Iqaluit Airport   The beautiful and historic town of Narita   Flight over Russia   Images under Creative Commons licence with thanks to the author, the BEA, Airbus, Iqaluit Airport historic society, BruceBlaus and Peterhcharlton.

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