OB404: The Spirit of Separation
Opposing Bases: Air Traffic Talk
Air Traffic Talk
4.9 • 966 Ratings
🗓️ 6 October 2025
⏱️ 77 minutes
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OB404: The Spirit of Separation
Released to show supporters on 9/22/2025
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| 0:00.0 | There are other people in the room watching and plugged in. |
| 0:03.2 | Those people take their job very seriously. |
| 0:06.8 | They don't play around. |
| 0:08.0 | They're there to do a job and they're there to make sure you do your job. |
| 0:11.2 | So it does feel like a ton of added pressure. |
| 0:14.3 | Ready. |
| 0:34.8 | Welcome to Opposing Bases Air Traffic Talk, an aviation podcast by two air traffic controllers and rated pilots who love to talk about flying, controlling, and everything in between. |
| 0:41.3 | The show is for entertainment purposes only and should not be used as a substitute for your instructor, your supervisor, the FAA, the NTSB, or your cat. |
| 0:49.3 | The show will give you a better understanding of how things work in the national airspace system and maybe even make you laugh along the way. |
| 1:01.3 | Please welcome retired Army pilot Alpha Golf and first officer at Penguin Airlines |
| 1:06.5 | Romeo Hotel. |
| 1:19.3 | It's Monday, September 22, 2025, episode 404. |
| 1:23.3 | And today's show will discuss the spirit of separation, the air tactical piece of firefighting, and more of your awesome feedback. |
| 1:25.5 | What's up, Bajie? |
| 1:26.5 | Hello, hello everyone. |
| 1:28.4 | Happy Monday. Day two of your six day week. Yes. How was a one to nine on a Sunday? I don't remember |
| 1:38.6 | that world. It's been a while since I did that. There were periods of slowness, and there were periods of not slowness. |
| 1:49.9 | Hmm. What did you like better? |
| 1:51.8 | Definitely busy times. The busy times weren't super annoying. It just was busy. it wasn't like a gazillion practice approaches |
| 2:03.5 | no offense to you guys doing practice approaches but that becomes taxing very quickly |
| 2:09.2 | it just requires a lot it consumes a lot of attention and brain power and coordination and so it |
| 2:21.4 | wasn't a ton of that although when I got to work it was 1,300 overcast which is like |
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