This is a podcast for anyone interested in aviation. While it started as a podcast to follow Bill's primary training, it has evolved into a podcast about how all of us can continually improve our flying. This is the audio only feed. The audio podcasts are not necessarily the same content as the video podcasts, so if you want all the content, please check out both. The video feed is mostly available on Youtube, now (inlcuding the back catalog), and you can find it by searching for "Student Pilot Cast" there or use this link: https://www.youtube.com/@studentpilotcast.
Latest episodes
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52 min
SPC098 [CS] Hit Record — How to Record Your Cockpit Audio
How do you record your flight lessons? Nick, a listener in Houston, asked me the same question I got in 2009, so I flew with six recorders running at once, then tested five cables…
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29 min
SPC097 [BR] Never Skip the Debrief — Five Questions After Every Flight
Your logbook knows you flew. It has no idea what you learned. In this Briefing Room episode: five questions to ask after every flight (Surprise, Workload, Skill, Decision, and Goal…
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24 min
SPC096 [HS] Logging Is Not Learning — Inside FlyORKA's Feedback Loop
At AirVenture 2026 I sat down with Adriana, founder of FlyORKA, expecting an app demo. I walked away with a line I haven't been able to shake: logging is not learning.Adriana spent…
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53 min
SPC095 [HS] Pull Early, Pull Often — Inside Cirrus Training
At AirVenture this year I sat down in the Cirrus compound with Eamon Powers, the Director of Cirrus Approach — the man who owns every piece of training content Cirrus produces, for…
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59 min
SPC094 [HS] Engine Out - Who Showed Up
In episode 94 of the Student Pilot Cast, Bill recounts an unplanned start to AirVenture 2026 after the engine in his Jabiru quit over far southeastern Colorado on July 18, forcing…
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47 min
SPC093 [HS] Day Four of Days Not Mattering
It's Thursday night at Camp Scholler, day four of days not mattering, and Kent and I sat down with one goal: be smart-asses about a few things we'd seen at AirVenture.So we get int…
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12 min
SPC092 [HS] Storms, Smoke, and Bladders...Let's Go!
In Episode 92, we join Bill and Trey talking briefly about their upcoming trip to OSH in a light sport aircraft, Lil' Rue. BGet the free Go or No-Go guide: https://studentpilotcast…
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26 min
SPC091 [BR] ADM in Three Simple Questions - Or How NOT to Become a Case Study
In Episode 91, Bill teaches a simple aeronautical decision-making framework for go/no-go and continue/divert decisions built around three simple questions: can the airplane do it?…
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1 h 21
SPC090 [BTC] A Tragic Past - Changing The Pilots (ATP-CTP)
In Episode 90, Beyond the Checkride, Bill and Kent reflect on the 2009 Colgan Air 3407 crash near Buffalo and how it drove regulatory changes including the 1,500-hour rule and the…
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54 min
SPC089 [CS] Hi - Nice to Meet Rue
In Episode 89, we join Bill as he introduces everyone to his airplane, a 2008 Jabiru J230. Come along on a flight with him and he'll tell you all about the plane, but also dive int…
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51 min
SPC088 [HS] Powered by Human Intelligence, a Discussion with Jason Miller
In Episode 88, Bill welcomes Jason Miller, two-time FAA Western Pacific CFI of the Year and founder of The Finer Points, to discuss how his platform evolved into an flight training…
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53 min
SPC087 [BTC] Vroom, Vroom or What Does the Turbo Say?
In Episode 87, we join Bill and Kent as they discuss forced induction in general aviation, contrasting normally aspirated engines with superchargers, turbochargers, and turbo-norma…
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19 min
SPC086 [BR] Fly. Learn. Repeat. Our New Mission
In Episode 86, we join Bill as he relaunches the podcast. Four distinct series, a new look, and more bad puns. I do a Briefing Room episode to launch things back off, and explain h…
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46 min
SPC#85 - Expanding Your Minimums | Suck Less at Flying
In Episode 85, we join Bill and Kent as they talk about how to expand the envelope of your flying. In other words, how to fly good and not suck...or at least get better and reduce…
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1 h 00
SPC#84 - Just Go
In Episode 84, we join Bill and Kent again for another Beyond the Checkride segment. In this one we talk about getting out there on the proverbial open road, and going places with…
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50 min
SPC#83 - That Pilotcast Episode with Rob Holland
In Episode 83, we go back to the days of the Pilotcast. Due to the tragic events of the past weekend, we wanted to re-release a Pilotcast Episode from 2018 where Kent, Tiffany, and…
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1 h 05
SPC#82 - Making a List and Checking it Twice...or Never.
Welcome back SPC listeners and Merry Christmas! In this special Christmas day episode, hosts Bill and Kent delve into the pilot's lifeline – checklists. Episode 82 of the Student P…
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51 min
SPC#81 - An Evening with Legion Air
In Episode 81 Bill goes on location to interview some of the guys who started a new flight school recently. Legion Air wants to teach people to be the best aviators they can be, so…
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1 h 14
SPC#80 - Back to Part Time
In Episode 80 of the Student Pilot Cast we reunite with Nick Smith from Part Time Pilot to discuss the latest developments in his online ground school platform. We explore the addi…
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1 h 35
SPC#79 - And Don't Call Me Shirley
In Episode 79, we join Bill and guest host Tiffany Wolf as they navigate the flight path of AI with an interview with Alex List of FlyShirley.com. Fly Shirley is a tech startup ded…