OB413: When Things Go Sideways
Opposing Bases: Air Traffic Talk
Air Traffic Talk
4.9 • 966 Ratings
🗓️ 9 December 2025
⏱️ 71 minutes
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OB413: When Things Go Sideways
Released to show supporters on 11/22/2025
Public release scheduled for 12/9/2025
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| 0:00.0 | Not just FFR, the thousand foot ceilings, and three miles visibility. |
| 0:03.4 | We're talking VFR up to and including the cruise altitude that you're flying at. |
| 0:07.5 | That is super important. |
| 0:08.8 | Or at least a descent from the minimum in-rout altitude. |
| 0:12.5 | Ready. |
| 0:16.8 | Welcome to Opposing Bases Air Traffic Talk, an aviation podcast by two air traffic controllers |
| 0:27.4 | and rated pilots who love to talk about flying, controlling, and everything in between. |
| 0:34.5 | 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. |
| 0:47.3 | The show will give you a better understanding of how things work in the national airspace system, |
| 0:52.3 | and maybe even make you laugh along the way. |
| 0:58.6 | Please welcome retired Army pilot Alpha Golf |
| 1:01.9 | and first officer at Penguin Airlines, Romeo Hotel. |
| 1:16.9 | It's Saturday, November 22nd, 2025, episode 413. |
| 1:25.5 | On today's show, we'll share a great story of pilot-controller teamwork, show you the magic of protecting a non-towered airports airspace, and answer more of your aviation questions. |
| 1:26.2 | What's up, AJ? |
| 1:30.1 | Hello, hello, everyone. Happy, happy Saturday. |
| 1:37.6 | You lift a word out. You said more of your aviation questions and you didn't say feedback and it really threw me off. |
| 1:41.8 | You're falling. Look, I'm just lucky to be getting sure how to behave right now. |
| 1:46.6 | I'm lucky to be here to get through the opening. |
| 1:49.1 | We made it. |
| 1:50.1 | We did. |
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