Cardinal Aviation Audio Briefings

In this episode, we have the opportunity to speak with Captain Doug Morris. Capt. Doug is arguably Air Canada's most famous pilot as his column "Taking Off With Captain Doug" has been running in the airline's inflight magazine for over 22 years. We talk about Doug's books and his take on the aviation industry and how he became an Author, Meteorologist and Airline Captain. 

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Doug's Books:

Canadian Aviation Weather

From The Flight Deck

Pilot Weather From Solo to Airlines

In this episode, we talk bout the importance of punctuation when it comes to clearly interpreting written IFR departure procedures and missed approaches. I also bring up some of the challenges in converting a fixed-wing license to helicopter.

Engine failures and forced approaches are something that we hope to never experience but something that we must always practice and be prepared for. In this episode, we discuss some things to think about when it comes to making a survivable forced approach.

We discuss my three favourite questions that I constantly ask myself in an effort to maintain situational awareness and to stay ahead of the airplane and also talk about a recent flight in the mountains where we ditched the GPS and the tablet and went back to navigating "old school".

We share with you 2 big failures and 1 massive success. It involves copious amounts of beer and helicopters. Sometimes we have to remind ourselves what it is like to drink from the firehose and this week I did just that by taking a very humbling introductory helicopter lesson.

In this episode, we talk about a recent flight around a large area of convective activity and provide some tips on how you can work with ATC to stay safe.

A quick recap of the flight we had with a client today that involved a precautionary landing and a bit of a fuelling mishap. A solid mix of humour and lessons learned. You really can't make this stuff up!

In this episode, Pilot and Former Transportation Safety Board Lead Investigator Bill Yearwood joins us to explain what the Transportation Safety Board (TSB) is, and shares some of the most common causes of General Aviation accidents. We talk about stall awareness, mountain flying and general attitudes towards aviation. Bill is the recipient of the Canadian Lieutenant Governor's Lifetime Achievement Award and has dedicated his life to furthering aviation safety.

In this episode we pay our respects to the Canadian Snowbirds, discuss some flights from this week and break down the decision-making process of one of our clients. We also announce an important upcoming interview!

For episode #25 we have assembled a list from some of our coaches of 25 things that professional pilots do that you should too!