Podcast Gallery

Pilot Podcasts
  • Introduction to UND Aerospace Time: 8:07 Details: UND Aerospace helps professional and aspiring aviation enthusiasts explore the joy and science of aviation through innovative video training topics narrated by experienced Certified Flight Instructors.
  • Cleared for Takeoff Time: 22:26 Details: Find out why others love attending the best Aerospace program in the country - UND Aerospace. You are cleared for takeoff.
  • Rudder and Adverse Yaw Time: 4:15 Details: This episode cover one of the primary flight controls - the rudder. Typically, rudder is used to coordinate the aircraft and is used to develop a good quality of turn for the airplane.
  • Rectangular Course Time: 8:24 Details: The objective of practicing the rectangular course maneuver is to develop the pilot's division of attention between the flight path and ground references and recognition of drift toward or away from a line parallel to the intended ground track.
  • Turns on a Point Time: 6:33 Details: The objective of practicing turns around a point is to develop the pilot's division of attention between the flight path and ground references and recognition of drift toward or away from a prominent ground reference point while maintaining a constant altitude. This maneuver requires flying the plane in two or more circles around a uniform radius from a prominent ground reference point.
  • S-Turns Time: 5:45 Details: The S-Turns maneuver consists of crossing a reference road at a 90-degree angle, and immediately beginning a series of 180-degree turns, crossing the road at 90-degrees each turn.
  • Eights on Pylons Time: 5:45 Details: Eights on Pylons involves flying the plane in circular paths, alternating left and right in the form of a figure eight around two selected pylons.
  • Spin Awareness Time: 14:13 Details: Hear an actual mayday call from a pilot who entered an unintentional spin during regular meteorlogical conditions.
  • Steep Spirals Time: 5:24 Details: Steep spirals teach the pilot how to maximize the performance from his or her aircraft, while using control accuracy to remain over the selected point and roll out at the specified alititude after three turns over that point.
  • Lazy Eights Time: 6:42 Details: The purpose of a Lazy Eight is to develop the pilot's feel for varying control forces, and the ability to plan and remain oriented, while maneuvering the airplane with accurate control.
  • Chandelles Time: 6:19 Details: The Chandelles maneuver can be described as a climbing turn, beginning from approximately straight level flight and ending at the completion of a 180-degree turn in a wings-level high attitude at an airspeed just above stall-speed.
  • Steep Turns Time: 5:51 Details: The Steep Turn maneuver consists of 360-degree turns in opposite directions, using a bank steep enough to cause an over-banking tendency during which maximum turning performance is attained and relatively high load factors are imposed.
ATC Podcasts
  • ATC 1: Primary & Secondary Radar Time: 8:22 Details: Radar identification methods explained in detail and how to apply them to real Air Traffic Control scenarios.
  • ATC 2: Wake Turbulence Time: 11:30 Details: Every type of aircraft generate some degree of wake turbulence. Wake turbulence is a dangerous and potentially deadly threat to aircraft. This episode covers the definition of Wake Turbulence, how and why it happens, and more.
  • ATC 3: Radar Fundamentals Time: 7:53 Details: Radar is one of the most important utilities used in Air Traffic Control: it is also one of the oldest. What is radar, where did it come from, and how is it used in the Air Traffic Control System?
  • ATC 4: Merging Target Procedures Time: 8:07 Details: Air Traffic Controllers, en-route centers and tracons around the nation are responsible for the safety of thousands of aircraft every day. Even though altitude can be used to seperate aircraft, a radar scope is a 2-dimensional representation of a 3-dimensional world, in which 3 miles, or 1,000 feet, may not seem very far at all.