OB405: The Matter of a Mile
Opposing Bases: Air Traffic Talk
Air Traffic Talk
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🗓️ 14 October 2025
⏱️ 79 minutes
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OB405: The Matter of a Mile
Released to show supporters on 9/30/2025
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| 0:00.0 | This is where you need to reevaluate what's going on. |
| 0:03.1 | That's sometimes a hard thing to teach a trainee is that they believe that if I have the correct |
| 0:09.5 | plan, it all is just going to play out in this nice, ordered manner. |
| 0:15.1 | Ready. |
| 0:35.4 | 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. |
| 0:47.3 | 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. |
| 0:54.6 | 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 |
| 1:06.8 | Romeo Hotel. |
| 1:14.6 | Thank you. It's Romeo Hotel. It's Tuesday, September 30th, 20205, episode 405. |
| 1:18.6 | On today's show, we'll break down a complex ATC scenario that could have ended badly. |
| 1:22.6 | Learn how RH logs flight time and get to some more awesome feedback. |
| 1:26.6 | What's up, Bayjee. |
| 1:27.9 | Hello, hello, everyone. Happy Tuesday. You're on day three today because you work on six days |
| 1:35.4 | a week forever. I didn't this weekend. Oh, nice. Yeah, a rare break because you can't go three in a row. |
| 1:45.8 | Oh, that's the thing, the new thing. |
| 1:48.1 | But because of some swaps that I had done, I ended up with a four in a row. |
| 1:55.8 | I think I've got some time coming up, though, where I got like several weeks in a row without any so you could swap |
| 2:02.3 | into four in a row o t but you can't swap into better rest scenarios no no no right how's it been |
| 2:13.7 | the weather's nasty there's hurricanes out over the ocean and they're putting some rain in our area. |
| 2:18.7 | How's work been? |
| 2:21.8 | Yesterday was low overcast all day, rainy, windy, bumpy. |
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