{"podcast":{"title":"Audio Ground School by Part Time Pilot","slug":"audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670","podcast_index_feed_id":5606670,"rss_url":"https://feed.podbean.com/AudioGroundSchool/feed.xml","website_url":"https://AudioGroundSchool.podbean.com","image_url":"https://pbcdn1.podbean.com/imglogo/image-logo/14797869/Show_Cover_1_-_Resized_Compressed_4pwynb.jpg","author":"Nick Smith","episode_count":133,"summary":"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…","last_synced_at":"2026-07-16T02:32:39.524307+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670"},"episode":{"title":"BONUS: Day in the Life - Air Force, CFI & Future Airline Pilot Ricky Skinner","slug":"bonus-day-in-the-life-air-force-cfi-future-airline-pilot-ricky-skinner","published_at":"2025-10-06T13:00:00+00:00","page_url":"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","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670","url":"https://AudioGroundSchool.podbean.com/e/bonus-day-in-the-life-air-force-cfi-future-airline-pilot-ricky-skinner/","audio_url":"https://mcdn.podbean.com/mf/web/5fjmi5efqc8yznd4/Podbean_-_BONUS_Day_in_the_Life_-_Air_Force_CFI_Future_Airline_Pilot_Ricky_Skinner8gnzh.mp3","summary":"We continue our series of a day in the life with a guest that has a LOT of unique experience in the aviation world and someone who can answer questions about how to become a pilot with help from the Military. Ricky Skinner, from Positive Rate Aviation, is a podcast host, Air Force member, CFI and future Airline Pilot. Ricky was nice enough to join me and answer a ton of helpful questions about how students can do what he did and become a pilot through the military.","meta_description":"We continue our series of a day in the life with a guest that has a LOT of unique experience in the aviation world and someone who can answer questions ab…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2669,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/audio-ground-school-by-part-time-pilot-5606670/episodes/bonus-day-in-the-life-air-force-cfi-future-airline-pilot-ricky-skinner/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"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.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}