Aviation news with hangar-level context.
Airplane Geeks Podcast follows aviation from the tower, dispatch desk, cockpit, and airline side. Recent episodes move between runway incursions, controller staffing, electric aircraft, essential air service, classic aircraft, and the daily oddities of flying.
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Airplane Geeks Podcast is a long-running aviation roundtable with the pace of a news show and the texture of a hangar conversation. It tracks the industry through accidents, rulemaking, airline operations, aircraft programs, passenger behavior, military aviation, spaceflight, and general aviation tools. The show is broad, but not shallow. A discussion of airport surface incidents can turn into a practical conversation about controller staffing, training washout, fatigue, and the operational choices that protect safety when systems are stretched. Another episode may focus on the dispatch desk, where weather, war, strikes, space launches, fuel planning, diversions, and aircraft positioning collide in real time. The result is aviation coverage that cares about procedure as much as headlines. It also likes the hardware. Recent episodes bring in Sonex aircraft, the Lockheed Constellation, electric aircraft plans, the Falcon 10X, the KC-46, the X-59, MQ-4C Triton operations, aerial refueling, and Starlink for GA pilots. Classic aircraft receive affectionate scrutiny, including fuel capacity, oil systems, landing gear impressions, and the look of radial engines at night. Airline business and passenger experience are part of the mix too. Jet fuel prices, possible airline sales, carry-on rules for violins, essential air service, specialty airport treatment for members of Congress, and United passenger requirements all become material for analysis and argument. The show’s style is informed and companionable. It has recurring voices, listener mail, side jokes, and the running travel check-in around Max Flight’s location. That looseness keeps the technical material approachable. Still, the program does not treat aviation as trivia. Safety, training, regulation, maintenance, and operational resilience are recurring concerns. Guests and regular contributors bring aviation-adjacent experience from journalism, instruction, business jets, dispatch, and podcasting. The conversations can be dryly funny, especially when passenger etiquette or aircraft opinions are on the table. They can also become grave when fatal crashes, runway incursions, or missing aircraft enter the news. Airplane Geeks Podcast suits listeners who want aviation explained by people who know the vocabulary but still enjoy the culture around it. It is not just for pilots. It is for anyone who finds that airports, aircraft, airspace, and the decisions behind them are more interesting the closer one looks.
Made for: Airplane Geeks Podcast is for aviation enthusiasts, pilots, frequent flyers, airline watchers, and technically curious listeners who want more than headline summaries. It also suits general listeners who enjoy informed roundtable conversation with recurring voices.
What sets it apart: The show connects aviation news to the operational realities behind it, from controller staffing and dispatch decisions to aircraft systems and passenger rules. Its range, long archive, and conversational bench of aviation voices give it more depth than a standard news recap.
Our aim to educate and inform you, explore and develop your passion for aviation, and entertain you a little along the way.
Based on 5 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Airplane Geeks Podcast makes aviation operations legible through informed conversation, first-hand accounts, technical detail, and attention to the decisions behind every flight.
Airplane Geeks Podcast treats aviation as a working system, with Max Flight, Micah, and their guests moving between aircraft, airline operations, safety, regulation, and the experience of flying.
A closed airport becomes a fuel puzzle; your inner dispatcher is already doing the math.
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Airport collision reports lead into a discussion of controller staffing, training, and fatigue.
The Airplane Geeks crew covers NTSB news on the LaGuardia crash, a near collision at LAX involving a Frontier flight and two trucks, and a United Airlines plane that struck two de-icing trucks. The reports lead into a discussion of the people managing air traffic.
An airline dispatcher explains the decisions behind diverting an inbound flight.
An airport closes with flights already on the way. In this Airplane Geeks episode, a dispatcher from a major U.S. airline walks through the decisions that follow: alert the crew, look for a safe place to land, and weigh whether the flight can hold while the situation develops.
United's passenger audio rule prompts a practical question amid a busy round of aviation news.
A failed House vote on the ROTOR Act and the competing ALERT Act open a busy Airplane Geeks episode. The crew moves through the military shooting down drones with a laser, flight disruptions in the Middle East, Breeze Airways' expansion, and a new United passenger requirement.
The Constellation's shape, Starliner tanks, and nighttime exhaust glow give this aircraft conversation its best moments.
The Lockheed Constellation is the heart of this episode. A guest brings firsthand experience, while the host remembers seeing one up close. They talk through its distinctive shape and the Starliner's fuel and oil tanks, then linger on a video of orange exhaust glowing during a…
Coleman's Aero flight report pairs working Starlink with limited onboard entertainment.
This Airplane Geeks episode moves from Brian Coleman's Aero flight report to a review of the Bose A30 Aviation Headset. Coleman wanted overnight oats on the media flight, let other passengers order first, and ended up with smoked salmon.
Helicopter safety, one cockpit lesson at a time.
Anonymous aviation stories with hangar-floor judgment.
Optometry practice, talked through plainly.
Pilot-controller shop talk with operational teeth.
Airline news, measured by money.
Airplane Geeks splits this episode between Brian Coleman’s Aero flight review and Hillel Glazier’s Bose A30 headset review.
The Airplane Geeks podcast discusses recent aviation news including SpaceX Starship explosions causing flight diversions, DJI geofencing changes, synthetic fuel for military aircraft, and Boeing 777X certification flight tests.
This episode covers aviation news including Boom Supersonic's first supersonic test flight, the Jeju Air crash, and other industry updates.
This episode covers aviation news including F-35 alternatives, Denver airport nuclear reactor study, astronaut Jim Lovell's passing, ATC funding, NTSB hearings, and flight training recognition.
Airplane Geeks episode 890 opens with LaGuardia, LAX, Denver, FAA staffing, the Navy MQ-4C Triton, Utah air taxis, and Amazon Leo all on one news slate.
This episode of the Airplane Geeks podcast covers recent aviation news including the loss of joy in air travel, air traffic control changes, the Artemis II moon mission, and regulatory updates.
The Airplane Geeks podcast episode 888 features a conversation with Max Trescott covering aviation news including the Mosaic rule, Sonex, jet fuel prices, JetBlue, essential air service, AT-CTI, United Airlines, Starlink for GA pilots, a Southwest flight experience, and an NTSB discussion.
This episode covers aviation news including a fatal runway incursion at LaGuardia, new helicopter safety rules, Airbus seeking damages, and other aviation stories.
This episode covers aviation news including electric aircraft plans, a KC-135 accident, new business jet unveiling, and airline updates.
Airplane Geeks Podcast episode 885 centers on Mike Carrolls, a flight dispatcher and air traffic manager for the Southeast region, talking through weather, war, space launches, and airport disruptions.
The House rejected the Rotor Act after the Pentagon withdrew support, and Ted Cruz says it is "coming."
Airplane Geeks hosts Max Flight, Micah, and Brian Coleman cover aviation news -- the Rotor Act's ADS-B-in mandate prompted by the January 2025 DCA helicopter-airliner collision, a Gamma report showing 2025 business jet shipments up 11.8% to $31 billion, a same-night reversal on shutting down TSA PreCheck and Global Entry during the government shutdown, and DHS's push to buy a $70 million Boeing 737 Max 8 for ICE deportation flights alongside two previously purchased $200 million Gulfstream G700s.
This episode covers news and interviews from the Seattle Aerospace Bash, including Boeing's divestitures, Avelo protests, and new aircraft developments.