# 121. Heidi Porch

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Podcast: [I Learned About Flying From That](https://stenobird.com/podcast/i-learned-about-flying-from-that-1370892)
Published: 2026-01-07T11:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://pdst.fm/e/traffic.megaphone.fm/FREIGHT7090265298.mp3
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Duration seconds: 3166

## Resource

In this episode of the I Learned About Flying From This podcast, host Rob Reider interviews Heidi Porch, a retired airline pilot who survived a harrowing emergency landing in the Pacific Ocean. For a pilot who admitted a lifelong fear of swimming, Heidi details the technical and psychological challenges of ditching a Cessna 182 during a ferry flight from California to New Zealand in 1984.

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