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Bryan Air
by by Bryan Roseveare
Today: #106 in Leisure, South Africa on our combined chart.
Chart positions today · South Africa
Not on the United States charts we track today.
Not on the United Kingdom charts we track today.
Not on the Canada charts we track today.
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Not on the Mexico charts we track today.
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Not on the Ireland charts we track today.
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Not on the Philippines charts we track today.
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Ranking history · South Africa
History builds daily. We started tracking this show on the Leisure, South Africa chart recently, so the trend line appears after a second day of data.
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| Date | Combined Rank | Apple Podcasts | Castbox |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oct 11 | #106 | #107 | #89 |
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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.