Learn to Fly: The Bat Who Needed a License

Before you fly, you need a radio certificate. Before the radio certificate, you need a different alphabet. And different numbers. Three is Tree. Nine is Niner. W is Whiskey — and yes, everyone remembers that one immediately. This Episode covers the three Austrian radio certificates, why the AFZ is the obvious choice, and why "over and out" is something no pilot should ever say. Learn to...

Before your first flight lesson. Before you book a trial flight. Before anything starts — a doctor needs to sign off on you. Turns out there are two kinds of aviation medical. They are not the same. The choice between them is one of the most important decisions you'll make before spending a single hour in an aircraft — and almost nobody knows it exists before someone tells them. Episode 01 covers...

A bat. Fifty million years of flying experience. Zero paperwork. Until now. This is the series about everything that happens between "I want to learn to fly" and "I am now legally permitted to fly" — in Austria, in the correct order, with all the parts included that nobody tells you about in advance. There is a checklist. It has six items. Each item is hiding something. Episode 00 explains what th...