Live Interview
And why does that matter?
This is how a Mato agent talks. Take the other seat: answer a few and feel it follow the thread.
Podcast charts
Published by Jake Castle
Jake Castle is a 30 year old EASA ATPL and CAA PPL holder from Essex England but currently residing in Malaga Spain. Self described as “not the smartest bloke” they have created a guide to all the exercises in the PPL syllabus to help break down into easy to understand chunks, helping you to maximise your time in your costly flying lessons learning to fly, not remembering how to fly. As an auditory and kinaesthetic learner, they are someone that when driving to the airfields would have a roughly hour long drive to and from, and so would often need something to listen to, and they just wish they had the PPL Pilot’s guide during their training to help them learn. This podcast is not there to teach you to fly but to supplement your studies so whilst you are driving to the airfield or washing up or on your commute to work or school, you can have this on in the background as a gentle reminder of what you need to do in that flying exercise. This is not aircraft specific podcast and only serves to reinforce to basic fundamentals of each exercise which no matter if you are learning to fly for fun or aim to go commercial, analog or digital cockpit, it will be the building blocks of all your aviation. You want to save money learning to fly by turning up to your lesson prepared, you do not want to spend your lesson time having to remember what you did last lesson or what you should be doing this lesson, you want to turn up, prepared and ready to learn new skills and develop. Each episode labelled with the exercise number and a brief description, so you do not need to listen to all of them, simple find the exercise you need and have a listen. Your instructor may tell you to do certain things differently as per the flying order book of your school/club or they simply may have their way of doing it, but this podcast serves to give you the fundamentals of each exercise. Happy flying! Intro and Outro: "Cloud Dancer " Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0 License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
On the charts
Every published chart this podcast appears in, in the snapshot behind this page. Each one links to the chart it came off.
From the feed
The latest episodes published to this podcast’s own RSS feed. Titles and descriptions are the publisher’s.
A bonus episode focusing on the Airline Pilot Standards Multi-Crew Cooperation course. This is not part of the PPL syllabus but as so many go on from PPL to commercial training, I thought this episode would be a helpful insight into what is required and what the APS MCC actually is. This episode is designed for prior to starting your APS MCC to give you a head start in understanding and preparing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The commercial pilots licence is maybe the toughest test (I thought so anyway) but it doesn’t have to be, there is so much you can do to prepare. I have given my story and my journey, with a few snippets of what the CPL includes and how to ace your skill test, maximising your training. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Your multi engine instrument rating, what is included in the course, and what do you need to know? I am here to with these questions. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
What order should you do your training in? That game old question that every pilot will have an opinion on. Doing things slightly differently we have this special episode talking about my experiences and my feelings towards the worker you should do your training. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Training for your night rating. You do not need this to get your PPL(A) but do need it if you aim to go commercial. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Instrument appreciation with full panel/limited panel Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Aiming to learn to navigate the aircraft safely under VMC without infringing controlled airspace. Operation at minimum level. NDB/VOR tracking Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
To learn to make an approach and safe landing with power into a deserted aerodrome or field Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Forced landing without power The aim is to learn to make an approach and safe landing after an engine failure in flight Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The aim will be to carry out a co-ordinated turn at 45 deg & 60 deg, whilst maintaining balance and airspeed and to roll out on selected reference points or headings. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
First solo flight! The best flying you will ever do…except CPL QXC but that is another story The aim of this exercise is very simple, the aim is to fly solo and be the PIC of an aeroplane for the first time. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
You’ll learn to make an approach and landing without the use of flaps, make a glide approach and conduct a safe circuit even in soft/short field landing circumstances. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The aim is to learn to take off, climb to a correct height, fly the circuit pattern, make an approach to land, touch and go or full stop. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Spinning! Standard spin recovery Identify direction of spin Throttle closed Flaps up Apply full rudder in opposite direction of spin Pause Ease control forward until spin stops Centralise rudder Level the wings Ease out of the dive Adopt climb attitude Apply full power when cruise speed reached Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
This lesson may be taught differently at your school/club but is maybe one of the most important. The fundamentals are around slow flight recognising it, acquainted with what slow flight characteristics of the aircraft feel like and returning to normal flight. You will need to learn to recognise the symptoms of the stall, the full stall and recover with minimum height loss Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Exercise 9 As with many of the exercises, exercise 9 is split into parts, namely 9.1 9.2 For using on the first part which is 9.1 we have the aim of learning how to carry out a medium level (30 degree) bamnkled turn in balance and turn onto a selected heading. 9.2 takes the form of learning to carry out climbing and descending turns. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Exercise 7.2 & 8.2 Aim is to learn to control the descent of the A/C with the use of power and/or flap and to go around (missed approach) Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Exercise 7.1 & 8.1 Climbing and descending at a constant speed on a constant heading and in balance. You may have noticed that some lessons you will do multiple exercises or that the order of the exercises are changed around and not linear. The next few lessons are going to be exactly that so I have grouped them into hopefully the day they will be taught. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
The aim of this exercise is the thing that will to learn to do more than anything else as a pilot which is yes flying straight and level but it is about consistency in flying straight and level. It is being able to consistently fly in a constant direction which we will call straight whilst maintaining a constant altitude which we will call flying level and in balance. The balance refers to our balance call and as we learnt in effects if control, it is crucial we are in balanced coordinated flight Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Taxiing and how to do it safely Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Ranking source
Apple Podcasts rankings via the Mato Topic Intelligence Platform.
Observed September 20, 2026.
Apple and Apple Podcasts are trademarks of Apple Inc., registered in the U.S. and other countries.
Pairs with
Bring this source into Mato to read its transferable patterns, then turn them into an original show for your own audience.