Explore episodes of The Aviation Business Podcast featuring flight school management, pilot training insights, aviation business strategies, and industry expert interviews. Learn from aviation leaders, flight school owners, and industry innovators.
You have watched students quit. Some made it through their solo and disappeared. Others struggled from the first lesson and you sensed it early, but you had no objective way to act on the feeling. On
Joe Gilroy walked off a Delta A330 flight deck for the last time on March 6, 2026. He was 65. He had no intention of stopping. In this episode of the Aviation Business Podcast, Dan Gill sits down wit
Most flight school owners think fleet growth is a capital problem. You need more aircraft, but you do not have the cash, and traditional lenders do not understand your business. In this episode of The
Matt Wilkins knows exactly what it feels like to run out of money mid-certificate and stop flying. He started his private pilot at Auburn University in 2007, earned his license, began instrument train
Search marketing, home simulators, and the AI future of flight training. One conversation with the man running all three at the world's largest pilot shop. Chris McGonegle has a view of the aviatio
If you run a flight school, you have probably watched a student go from motivated to missing. They come in ready to fly, grind through ground school, show up for their first few lessons, and then some