# Audio Ground School by Part Time Pilot Page: https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670 Text version: https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670.md RSS feed: https://feed.podbean.com/AudioGroundSchool/feed.xml Official site: https://AudioGroundSchool.podbean.com Author: Nick Smith Episodes: 133 ## Resource Welcome to the Part Time Pilot Audio Ground School Podcast! This podcast is going to be all about providing student pilots with ANOTHER way that they can consume the Private Pilot curriculum. Each episode is myself, Nick Smith, going through the lessons of our Online Ground School but adding more detail, stories and metaphors to make it consumable in the audio format. The #1 reason student pilots never end up becoming a private pilot is NOT due to money. The real reason is actually deeper than that. Yes, flight training is expensive. But every student pilot knows this and budgets for it when they decide to do it. The actual #1 reason a student pilot fails is because they do not have a good, fundamental understanding of the private pilot knowledge they are meant to learn in ground school. You see when a student does not have a good grasp of this knowledge they get to a point in their flight training where their mind just can’t keep up. They start making mistakes and having to redo lessons. And THAT is when it starts getting too expensive. This audio ground school is meant for the modern day student pilot... aka the part time student pilot. Let’s face it, the majority of us have ful… ## Machine-readable JSON: https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670 Markdown: https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670.md ## Episodes - [Private Pilot - Section 5 - Lesson #19: Weather Briefings](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/private-pilot-section-5-lesson-19-weather-briefings) — 2026-07-15T13:00:00+00:00 - [IFR Section 7 - Lesson #1: Departure Procedures](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/ifr-section-7-lesson-1-departure-procedures) — 2026-07-13T13:00:00+00:00 - [BONUS: We're BACK + Updates to the FAA Written Exam](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/bonus-we-re-back-updates-to-the-faa-written-exam) — 2026-07-08T13:00:00+00:00 - [Private Pilot - Section 5 - Lesson #18: AIRMETs & SIGMETs](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/private-pilot-section-5-lesson-18-airmets-sigmets) — 2025-12-17T14:00:00+00:00 - [IFR Section 6 - Lesson #9: Special Use Airspace](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/ifr-section-6-lesson-9-special-use-airspace) — 2025-12-15T14:00:00+00:00 - [Private Pilot - Section 5 - Lesson #17: Radar Weather Observations](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/private-pilot-section-5-lesson-17-radar-weather-observations) — 2025-12-10T14:00:00+00:00 - [IFR Section 6 - Lesson #8: Transition Areas](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/ifr-section-6-lesson-8-transition-areas) — 2025-12-08T14:00:00+00:00 - [Private Pilot - Section 5 - Lesson #16: Significant Weather Prognosis & Wide Area Weather Charts](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/private-pilot-section-5-lesson-16-significant-weather-prognosis-wide-area-weather-charts) — 2025-12-06T14:00:00+00:00 - [IFR Section 6 - Lesson #7: Class G](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/ifr-section-6-lesson-7-class-g) — 2025-12-04T14:00:00+00:00 - [Private Pilot - Section 5 - Lesson #15: Winds & Temperatures Aloft](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/private-pilot-section-5-lesson-15-winds-temperatures-aloft) — 2025-11-26T14:00:00+00:00 - [IFR Section 6 - Lesson #6: Class E](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/ifr-section-6-lesson-6-class-e) — 2025-11-24T14:00:00+00:00 - [Private Pilot - Section 5 - Lesson #14: Trusted Weather Sources](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/private-pilot-section-5-lesson-14-trusted-weather-sources) — 2025-11-19T14:00:00+00:00 - [IFR Section 6 - Lesson #5: Class D](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/ifr-section-6-lesson-5-class-d) — 2025-11-17T14:00:00+00:00 - [Private Pilot - Section 5 - Lesson #13: PIREPs](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/private-pilot-section-5-lesson-13-pireps) — 2025-11-12T14:00:00+00:00 - [IFR Section 6 - Lesson #4: Class C](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/ifr-section-6-lesson-4-class-c) — 2025-11-10T14:00:00+00:00 - [Private Pilot - Section 5 - Lesson #12: METARs & TAFs](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/private-pilot-section-5-lesson-12-metars-tafs) — 2025-11-05T14:00:00+00:00 - [IFR Section 6 - Lesson #3: Class B](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/ifr-section-6-lesson-3-class-b) — 2025-11-03T14:00:00+00:00 - [Private Pilot - Section 5 - Lesson #11: Interpolating](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/private-pilot-section-5-lesson-11-interpolating) — 2025-10-29T13:00:00+00:00 - [IFR Section 6 - Lesson #2: Class A](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/ifr-section-6-lesson-2-class-a) — 2025-10-27T13:00:00+00:00 - [Private Pilot - Section 5 - Lesson #10: Estimating Numbers on Chart](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/private-pilot-section-5-lesson-10-estimating-numbers-on-chart) — 2025-10-22T13:00:00+00:00 - [IFR Section 6 - Lesson #1: Flight Rules & Airspace](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/ifr-section-6-lesson-1-flight-rules-airspace) — 2025-10-20T13:00:00+00:00 - [BONUS: Day in the Life - Air Force, CFI & Future Airline Pilot Ricky Skinner](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/bonus-day-in-the-life-air-force-cfi-future-airline-pilot-ricky-skinner) — 2025-10-06T13:00:00+00:00 - [BONUS: Biggest Mistakes Student Pilots are Making Webinar](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/bonus-biggest-mistakes-student-pilots-are-making-webinar) — 2025-09-28T17:16:19+00:00 - [IFR Section 5 - Lesson #8: Extra VOR & HSI Questions](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/ifr-section-5-lesson-8-extra-vor-hsi-questions) — 2025-09-22T13:00:00+00:00 - [Private Pilot - Section 5 - Lesson #9: Weather, Altitudes & Altimeter Settings](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/private-pilot-section-5-lesson-9-weather-altitudes-altimeter-settings) — 2025-09-17T13:00:00+00:00 - [IFR - Section 5 - Lesson #7: Communication Frequencies](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/ifr-section-5-lesson-7-communication-frequencies) — 2025-09-15T13:00:00+00:00 - [Private Pilot - Section 5 - Lesson #8: Clouds](https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/private-pilot-section-5-lesson-8-clouds) — 2025-09-10T13:00:00+00:00 ## Actions Episode pages expose an explicit `request_transcript` action. 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