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#294 Should South Africa Still Own An Airline? SAA Pay Staggered Again, Buyer Due By Feb

October 29, 2026 · 51 min

DESCRIPTION: SAA has staggered its October salaries for the second month running, and The Citizen reports that Treasury has given the airline until February to find a buyer. Two former airline pilots who have both had the message that pay…
#293 A Pilot Explains: SAA's Salaries Are Late Again

October 27, 2026 · 12 min

South African Airways has told its staff that October salaries will be late for the second month in a row, Parliament wants an answer from the Transport Minister by Friday 30 October, and Treasury has disclosed a R1 billion guarantee for…
#292 A Pilot Explains: Turbulence Into Johannesburg, The Worst Hit Of My Career Was On A Clear Day

October 9, 2026 · 13 min

DESCRIPTION: Turbulence won't necessarily break the aircraft. It will hurt the people who aren't strapped in. The worst hit of my flying career came on a perfectly clear day on final approach into Johannesburg, with not a cloud in the…
A Pilot Explains: Who Decides If Your Dubai Or Doha Flight Gets Airborne

September 27, 2026 · 9 min

DESCRIPTION: Every flight through the Gulf this month is being approved on the day, one flight at a time. If your December ticket to Europe or Asia connects in Dubai or Doha, this episode tells you who makes that decision and what to do…
#290 Fuel Is Half Your Ticket Price: Why Flights Are So Expensive Right Now

September 24, 2026 · 29 min

DESCRIPTION: Brent crude went back through 100 dollars a barrel on 9 September after the United States and Iran started striking each other again, and it was still above 100 dollars nearly two weeks later. Fuel makes up 50 to 55 percent…

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A Pilot Explains: 1 In 8 Airline Pilots Are Depressed, Why We Hide It And What It Costs At Home

September 24, 2026 · 16 min

DESCRIPTION One in eight airline pilots is depressed. More than half of us have avoided a doctor to protect our licence. This is why pilots stay silent, what it costs at home, and where to get help. This is A Pilot Explains: one story…
#288 ACSA's R1.2 Billion Year, The Approach We Should Have Gone Around From, And Emirates To Berlin At Last

September 21, 2026 · 31 min

DESCRIPTION: Airports Company South Africa has posted a R1.2 billion profit on R8.81 billion of revenue, and Johannesburg airport still cannot keep its toilets open. Bryan and Ryan get to that, but first they own up to something every…
A Pilot Explains: Why Pilots Refuse To Land, And The Night I Got It Wrong

September 18, 2026 · 20 min

DESCRIPTION The engines roar, the nose lifts, and the runway falls away beneath you. The safest thing a pilot can do is the one thing passengers hate: not land. Here is the rule behind it, the night I broke it, and what the recorders show…
A Pilot Explains: The Scam That Stole R1.2 Million In 20 Minutes

September 18, 2026 · 13 min

DESCRIPTION A retired teacher east of Johannesburg took a WhatsApp call from someone posing as South African Airways. Twenty minutes later, R1.2 million was gone. Pilots have a rule for exactly this. This is A Pilot Explains: one story…
#285 No Flypast At FNB: Airlink Pulls Out, SAA 'For Sale' Again and FlySafair's Big Win

September 4, 2026 · 22 min

DESCRIPTION: The flypast is off. Airlink has withdrawn its FNB Stadium flyby for Saturday's third test, citing the weather, while the South African Civil Aviation Authority works through the flight data from Cape Town. Bryan and Ryan have…
I Watched The Airlink Flypast Like Everyone Else. Here's What I Saw.

September 4, 2026 · 12 min

Two Airlink E-Jets, one black and one green, flew over Cape Town Stadium seconds before the Springboks and the All Blacks kicked off. Within an hour the whole internet had an opinion on how low it was. This is what an airline pilot…
#283 The Charter Comeback: Beech 1900s, Bush Strips and a Better Life

August 21, 2026 · 46 min

Charter flying in South Africa is booming, and Ryan is living it: Beech 1900 trips to Zimbabwe, Botswana, the Lowveld and the Northern Cape in the space of three weeks. After last week's Etihad debate, the guys make the case that the most…

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About the show

I'm Bryan Roseveare. I was an airline captain. I still go to work on the flight deck. It's just a full flight simulator these days, and the pilots I train are the ones who fly you around. This is not a side project. Training pilots is my job, and I believe in the way an airline flight deck works. The structure. The discipline. The way a crew stays calm, works the problem and makes a decision after something goes wrong. Pilots are not born with those habits. They are trained into them, one session at a time, and that means anyone can learn them. They also work for the engine failures of life: the job that disappears, the diagnosis, the decision you have to make with half the information and no time. I want to give you the tools pilots use, so that when your moment comes, you have a proven way to handle it, from the most professional industry in the world. I do this from South Africa, a country I love and refuse to look away from. We sit at the far end of a continent, a long way from everything, and we have never had the luxury of an easy run. That is exactly why this way of thinking belongs here. - A Pilot Explains: one story South Africans are talking about, what a pilot sees in it, and the habit you can take from it. - Once a month, my co-host Ryan Parrock joins me to work through the aviation news that affects South Africa, the way two pilots actually talk about it. Made in Johannesburg. South African honesty.