OB408: The Approachable Approach
Opposing Bases: Air Traffic Talk
Air Traffic Talk
4.9 • 966 Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 63 minutes
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OB408: The Approachable Approach
Released to show supporters on 10/13/2025
Public release scheduled for 11/4/2025
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| 0:00.0 | Where am I in relation to where I want to go? What direction am I pointed? What way am I facing? And how does this make sense thinking about the final for this approach? |
| 0:12.0 | Ready. |
| 0:26.9 | 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. |
| 0:34.1 | The show is for entertainment purposes only and should not be used as a substitute for your instructor, |
| 0:40.3 | your supervisor, the FAA, the NTSB, or your cat. |
| 0:45.3 | The show will give you a better understanding of how things work in the National Airspace System, |
| 0:51.3 | and maybe even make you laugh along the way. |
| 1:05.1 | Please welcome retired Army pilot Alpha Golf and first officer at Penguin Airlines Romeo Hotel. It's Monday, October 13, 2025, episode 408 on the second half of the double header will help make teaching approaches easier. |
| 1:22.1 | Discover why altitude matters when you file flight plans and answer more of your aviation questions. |
| 1:26.1 | What's up, AJ? |
| 1:27.1 | Hello, hello, everyone. Happy second episode, Double Header Monday. Yay. In the last six minutes, |
| 1:34.6 | what have you done with your life? Tell me. I gave a refresher on how to use a gas pump. |
| 1:46.0 | What else did I do? |
| 1:47.4 | Were you with them the first time I got gas? |
| 1:49.3 | You've seen them do this. |
| 1:50.6 | Yes. |
| 1:51.2 | Your daughter. |
| 1:51.9 | Okay. |
| 1:52.2 | I've had her do it. |
| 1:54.3 | I wouldn't even have thought of that. |
| 1:55.3 | It's really good. |
| 1:56.8 | It's not, I mean, there are instructions, but it's not necessarily intuitive. |
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