Flight 060. Mark Vanhoenacker, our favorite airline pilot, is back with us for the release of How To Land A Plane, his new book. Will he leave the 747 for the 787? The memories of his first 747 landing and 320 training, Do we prefer landing or taking off? And a few Airplane! quotes.
Show Notes
00:00 – Introduction
01:11 – How To Land A Plane
16:31 – Take-offs or landings?
24:19 – Mark’s first 747 landing
31:12 – Flight simulator
34:01 – The climates of RUH, DFW, PHX
37:53 – Will Mark leave the 747 for the 787?
45:50 – Training for the 320
48:38 – Airplane!
50:47 – NBO
53:59 – Watching over SDU, Decide v Minimums
56:23 – Buy the book, 747, Skyfaring photo gallery
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Creators and Guests
Host
Alex Hunter
Co-host of Layovers, Creator of Attache Travel
Host
Paul Papadimitriou
Creator and host of Layovers
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The Air Travel podcast — created by Paul Papadimitriou, hosted with Alex Hunter & Vinod Viswalingam — #1 in 50+ countries — listen everywhere, watch on Spotify and YouTube.
