The Peninsula Aero Club at Tyabb Airport near Melbourne puts on an epic air show every two years, although everyone's really been looking forward to this year's event as the last one was in 2020 thanks to COVID. The waiting was certainly worth

Tibbsy the Aussie Airboss and a Day Trip to Tocumwal

Mar 4th, 2024 1h 5m

Setting up and running the air display component of an airshow takes a lot of effort, awareness of pilot and aircraft capabilities, an understanding of what makes a display interesting to the public, and the ability to deal with variables such

Exclusive: OzRunways Acquired by Boeing

Feb 13th, 2024 30m 8s

It's big news down under as Bas Scheffers, CEO of OzRunways, joins us to announce that Boeing have purchased the company. It's a massive validation of the efforts put in by the OzRunways team over the past 10+ years and provides the opportunity

Bush Flying 737s in Alaska, a long-haul Gipsy Moth, & more of the Steve Padgett Story

Jan 22nd, 2024 1h 16m

Welcome to our first episode for 2024 with this episode featuring a great set of interviews to kick off the new year. From Grant recording chats with Jerry & Jan Chisum in their incredible hangar home over in New Zealand to the next part in the

Flying with Angels & the Padgett Story Begins

Dec 9th, 2023 1h 1m

Steve's back in the studio after his heart attack and subsequent surgery. As you'd expect, it was a major experience for him and he's very appreciative of the support he's received from our audience. He's now a member of the zipper club, has be

Pacific Airshow Vibes

Oct 13th, 2023 1h 16m

It's been a while between episodes but Steve's been in hospital for a major operation plus Grant's been travelling for airshows and also getting current in hot air balloons once again (yup, there's a new danger area being declared for operation

Test Flying the F-35

Aug 30th, 2023 1h 1m

Way back in June 2014 we released Series 1 Episode 119 about the RAAF bringing the F-35A into service, including the first two pilots selected to learn how to fly it, discussions with Lockheed Martin representatives (including test pilot Billie

Gold Coast Dreaming

Aug 14th, 2023 51m 15s

The team from the Pacific Airshow at Huntington Beach in California have come down under to stage the first Pacific Airshow Gold Coast event at Surfers Paradise in August, right around the corner as we release this episode. Steve and Grant will

Reaching Skyward

Jul 20th, 2023 49m 40s

They say that if you can't see it, you can't be it and that certainly seems to be the case with getting more women into aviation. The recently released documentary Touch the Sky seeks to help encourage more women to consider flying for fun and/

Traffic Sighted

Jun 25th, 2023 44m 44s

There are plenty of beaches in Australia and many cities have an "Eye in the Sky" traffic reporter giving commuters updates on where the bottlenecks are, but what if you could provide traffic reports plus beach reports, all while logging hours?

Leaning Into It

Jun 9th, 2023 47m 46s

We recorded so much content at Avalon 2023 that it's going to take a few more episodes to get it all released. This episode brings us the Scandanavian wing walker team, the return of Timbo's Tarmac and a chat with UK aerobatic pilot Mark Jeffer

All Change for the Defence Strategic Review

May 16th, 2023 57m 39s

It's time to dig into the recently released Defence Strategic Review to assess its impacts on the Australian Defence Force from an aviation perspective. For this episode we're joined by award winning defence and aerospace journalist Andrew McLa

Extended Ranges

May 9th, 2023 33m 9s

With the recent release of the Defence Strategic Review by the Australian Federal Government, a major focus has been put on long range missiles for use by Army, Navy and Air Force to deter a potential adversary from approaching our island conti

The Sound of Freedom

Apr 24th, 2023 43m 22s

Imagine a hoard of RV-6s & RV-7s flying in close formation and performing solo & pair aerobatics. Sounds intense? Well, wait for the Pacific Airshow at the Gold Coast to find out how it looks & sounds. Meanwhile, Mark Newton is one of the pilot

The Commentators

Apr 10th, 2023 41m 20s

The Australian International Airshow in 2023 (aka Avalon 2023) saw not only huge crowds and amazing displays in the air, but also the end of an era as Peter Meehan performed his last show as "The Voice of Avalon," handing over the reigns to Ton

Owen Zupp on Resilience

Mar 27th, 2023 39m 4s

We recently caught up with our friend Owen Zupp to talk with him about the many ups and downs he's experienced in his career and, most importantly, his current grounding for medical reasons (starts at 1:20 into the episode). We touch on the imp

Pushback & Start

Mar 15th, 2023 35m 4s

The new series has officially launched with the release of this episode and, what better way to come back to the world than at the Australian International Airshow (aka Avalon 2023) where we caught up with plenty of old friends and made lots of

PCDU Episode 131: Reflections

Feb 27th, 2023 51m 40s

Rumours of our demise have, sadly, been accurate ... well, until now that is!We're back and looking to give PCDU another whirl with a new series coming out shortly, but we thought a good way to get back in the groove would be to do that "Farewe

PCDU Episode 130: Avalon 2017 – Alpha

Apr 15th, 2017

Steve, Grant and Maikha were on-site at Avalon recording plenty of content and this episode is our first collection of audio content covering some of the companies, people and aircraft we encountered while there. Steve & Grant have already star

PCDU Episode 130: Avalon 2017 – Alpha

Apr 14th, 2017

PCDU Episode 129: Going Back to School

Feb 28th, 2017 49m 42s

Steve & Grant have both been back to school in the past week with Steve revisiting his old high school (Brentwood Secondary College and yes, it’s still standing) where they have a great aviation curriculum. Meanwhile, Grant’s been out to Bacchu

PCDU Episode 129: Going Back to School

Feb 27th, 2017

PCDU Episode 128: Unprecedented

Oct 29th, 2016 3h 15m

From Grant's collection of ballooning interviews to a chat with Owen Zupp about his latest book and our tribute to Hannes Arch, this episode is our biggest yet (yes, even bigger than Episode 51, our tribute to the RAAF's F-111s!). We've even ca

PCDU Episode 127: From the Vault

Jul 17th, 2016

We’ve gone back into our archives to pull out some great content that we never got around to releasing before. We have some more interviews from Avalon 2015 (yes, we recorded lots didn’t we? :) ) and we also have WGCDR Tim Alsop (now a GPCAPT :

PCDU Episode 127: From the Vault

Jul 17th, 2016

We've gone back into our archives to pull out some great content that we never got around to releasing before. We have some more interviews from Avalon 2015 (yes, we recorded lots didn't we? :) ) and we also have WGCDR Tim Alsop (now a GPCAPT :