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Bryan Air

by by Bryan Roseveare · English · Leisure & Travel

I'm Bryan Roseveare. I was an airline captain. I still go to work on the flight deck. It's just a full flight simulator these days, and the pilots I train are the ones who fly you around. This is not a side project. Training pilots is my job, and I believe in the way an airline flight deck works. T

New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 23 min
Latest: 9 Oct 2026
Language: English

Latest episode

9 Oct 2026 · 13 min

#292 A Pilot Explains: Turbulence Into Johannesburg, The Worst Hit Of My Career Was On A Clear Day

DESCRIPTION: Turbulence won't necessarily break the aircraft. It will hurt the people who aren't strapped in. The worst hit of my flying career came on a perfectly clear day on final approach into Johannesburg, with not a cloud in the sky, and it ended in a go-around. This is the episode for anyone who is nervous about flying. I take you through what a Johannesburg summer thunderstorm looks like from the flight deck, what hail did to the nose of an aircraft I used to fly when it never even entered the storm, a flight where the weather radar showed nothing and a passenger died, and the one…

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27 Sep 2026 · 9 min
A Pilot Explains: Who Decides If Your Dubai Or Doha Flight Gets Airborne
DESCRIPTION: Every flight through the Gulf this month is being approved on the day, one flight at a time. If your December ticket to Europe or Asia connects in Dubai or Doha, this episode tells you who makes that decision and what to do about your own booking. This week your phone filled up with videos of missiles over Riyadh and a travel warning from Washington. I read the US security alert for the UAE word for word. It is an alert about the whole region. It does not say the Emirates is unsafe, and it tells Americans to check their flight with the airline. Then the week as it actually…
24 Sep 2026 · 29 min
#290 Fuel Is Half Your Ticket Price: Why Flights Are So Expensive Right Now
DESCRIPTION: Brent crude went back through 100 dollars a barrel on 9 September after the United States and Iran started striking each other again, and it was still above 100 dollars nearly two weeks later. Fuel makes up 50 to 55 percent of what it costs FlySafair to operate a flight. Put those two facts together and you have the reason a family of four is looking at the price of flying to Cape Town this long weekend and quietly getting the car keys out instead. Bryan and Ryan take the fuel story apart from the pilot's side of the door. Why Johannesburg has had a jet fuel supply problem of…
24 Sep 2026 · 16 min
A Pilot Explains: 1 In 8 Airline Pilots Are Depressed, Why We Hide It And What It Costs At Home
DESCRIPTION One in eight airline pilots is depressed. More than half of us have avoided a doctor to protect our licence. This is why pilots stay silent, what it costs at home, and where to get help. This is A Pilot Explains: one story, sixteen minutes, told from the flight deck. We are trained to report every defect on the aircraft, and nobody trains us to report one on ourselves. This episode is for the men who fly you home tonight: the contract pilot who walks through his front door and gets looked at like a visitor, and the local pilot who is at the dinner table every evening and not…
21 Sep 2026 · 31 min
#288 ACSA's R1.2 Billion Year, The Approach We Should Have Gone Around From, And Emirates To Berlin At Last
DESCRIPTION: Airports Company South Africa has posted a R1.2 billion profit on R8.81 billion of revenue, and Johannesburg airport still cannot keep its toilets open. Bryan and Ryan get to that, but first they own up to something every pilot has done at least once: carrying on with an approach that should have ended in a go-around. It starts with the rugby. Ryan was at FNB Stadium with the kids for the Springboks win, no flypast needed. Then the Miami 767 overrun gets the guys talking about their own bad approaches. Ryan remembers arriving into Durban horrendously high in his early CRJ days…
18 Sep 2026 · 20 min
A Pilot Explains: Why Pilots Refuse To Land, And The Night I Got It Wrong
DESCRIPTION The engines roar, the nose lifts, and the runway falls away beneath you. The safest thing a pilot can do is the one thing passengers hate: not land. Here is the rule behind it, the night I broke it, and what the recorders show from the Miami 767 crash. This is A Pilot Explains: one story, twenty minutes, told from the flight deck. Every airline flies to the same rule: by 1,000 feet the aircraft is set up for landing or you go around, and nobody gets in trouble for it. In 2003, as a brand-new DC-9 first officer, Bryan flew into a dust storm at Bamako, ignored the captain's calls,…
18 Sep 2026 · 13 min
A Pilot Explains: The Scam That Stole R1.2 Million In 20 Minutes
DESCRIPTION A retired teacher east of Johannesburg took a WhatsApp call from someone posing as South African Airways. Twenty minutes later, R1.2 million was gone. Pilots have a rule for exactly this. This is A Pilot Explains: one story, thirteen minutes, told from the flight deck. Rose knew the teacher's name, her ID number and the last time she flew, and she sent a link to an app that looked exactly like the real one. Nobody was tricked into being stupid. Somebody was given something to click and left alone with it. The same trap put Eastern Airlines Flight 401 into the Everglades in 1972…
4 Sep 2026 · 22 min
#285 No Flypast At FNB: Airlink Pulls Out, SAA 'For Sale' Again and FlySafair's Big Win
DESCRIPTION: The flypast is off. Airlink has withdrawn its FNB Stadium flyby for Saturday's third test, citing the weather, while the South African Civil Aviation Authority works through the flight data from Cape Town. Bryan and Ryan have both had a week of it, so they say their piece once and then get on with the rest of the news. Bryan and Ryan are back for the weekly catch up. Ryan's first thought on the day in Cape Town was why it was two Airlink E-Jets and not a FlySafair 737. Bryan's was how quickly the flyovers would be shut down for everyone. Neither of them will call it safe or…
4 Sep 2026 · 12 min
I Watched The Airlink Flypast Like Everyone Else. Here's What I Saw.
Two Airlink E-Jets, one black and one green, flew over Cape Town Stadium seconds before the Springboks and the All Blacks kicked off. Within an hour the whole internet had an opinion on how low it was. This is what an airline pilot actually saw: where the 50 foot number comes from and what it really means, why a flypast like that is flown in briefing rooms for weeks before it is flown over a roof, the risk formula I teach pilots every week, and the one question nobody asked the tens of thousands of people sitting underneath it. I have never flown a flypast and I say so up front. I am not…
21 Aug 2026 · 46 min
#283 The Charter Comeback: Beech 1900s, Bush Strips and a Better Life
Charter flying in South Africa is booming, and Ryan is living it: Beech 1900 trips to Zimbabwe, Botswana, the Lowveld and the Northern Cape in the space of three weeks. After last week's Etihad debate, the guys make the case that the most exciting flying job in the country might not be at an airline at all. Bryan Roseveare is joined as always by Ryan Parrock for the charter pilot life, how to break in, and a busy week of aviation news. IN THIS EPISODE Ryan celebrates 10 years married, then makes the punt for charter flying: real hands on flying, a different destination every week, and none…
13 Aug 2026 · 41 min
#282 Etihad Wants South African Pilots. Should You Go?
Etihad Airways is growing quickly, with more aircraft joining the fleet and new destinations on the map, and South African pilots are on its radar. Bryan and Ryan take on the question every SA pilot faces sooner or later: chase the tax-free Gulf package or build a life at home? Bryan Roseveare is joined in the studio by Ryan Parrock for the weekly catchup, recorded on a freezing Johannesburg winter morning. This episode includes a paid collaboration with Etihad Airways. Their online pilot roadshow for first officers and captains runs on 17 September 2026, covering the fleet, global…
24 Jul 2026 · 32 min
#281 OR Tambo Delays, Gulf Travel Risk and Studio Talk
DESCRIPTION: Number 17 in the queue for start. Forty minutes at the hold. Ryan flies in and out of O.R. Tambo every day, and this week FlySafair said the quiet part out loud. Bryan and Ryan are back for the weekly catch up. Ryan reports from the cockpit on what the delay chaos actually looks like from the pointy end, and why the crews feel for the controllers as much as the passengers. Then the question Bryan keeps getting from travellers: is it safe to fly through the Gulf right now? He walks through the EASA travel recommendations and why the final call is always your own risk decision.…
24 Jul 2026 · 10 min
#280 A Pilot Explains: Why South Africa's Flights Keep Getting Delayed (And Why That Keeps You Safe)
The number leads as you asked, the tag sets the expectation (nobody presses play expecting 45 minutes with Ryan and feels shortchanged at ten), and the hook still lands inside the truncation window. Over time the tag trains the audio audience the same way the playlist trains YouTube, and it compounds: every episode you publish under it strengthens the sub-brand inside the feed. And here's the audio description to go with it, written for the podcast app preview (first two lines do the selling): South Africa's biggest airline says it can no longer build the flight network it wants because of…
20 Jul 2026 · 10 min
#279 Your Pilot Explains: Is It Safe To Fly Through Dubai?
Is it safe to fly through Dubai right now? On 14 July, EASA, the regulator behind every European airline, told its operators to avoid the airspace of Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and the UAE at all altitudes, until at least 29 July. Dubai International is open. Emirates is flying one of its busiest summers ever. Both of those things are true at the same time, and this episode explains how. I read the actual conflict zone bulletin word for word, unpack the one word in it that should get your attention (misidentification, the MH17 and PS752 word), separate the three things people keep mashing…
10 Jul 2026 · 29 min
We Tested SARS's New Travel Declaration | Plus: Your Face Is Your New Passport
EPISODE SNAPSHOT Welcome to The Bryan Air Podcast. Career intelligence for pilots. We break down executive moves, economic forces, and the technology reshaping how pilots are trained, assessed, and employed. Boardroom decisions land on your flight deck. We translate them first. No corporate spin. Just the intelligence pilots actually need. Last week thousands of you weighed in on South Africa's new SARS traveler declaration. This week Ryan actually ran it, live, on a charter through Vic Falls, and his verdict might surprise you. Then the bigger story: between now and March 2027, borders on…
3 Jul 2026 · 23 min
New SARS Travel Rule Hits Every South African Traveler | Plus Emirates Is Hiring SA Pilots
EPISODE SNAPSHOT Welcome to The Bryan Air Podcast. Career intelligence for pilots. We break down executive moves, economic forces, and the technology reshaping how pilots are trained, assessed, and employed. Boardroom decisions land on your flight deck. We translate them first. No corporate spin. Just the intelligence pilots actually need. From 1 July, every traveler in and out of South Africa must file an online SARS declaration inside a 24-hour window before departure. Children included, and multi-stop itineraries make the timing even messier. With visas already strangling inbound business…
26 Jun 2026 · 33 min
Do World Cup Players Fly Private? Not Even Close
⭐ FEATURED: INTERACTIVE WORLD CUP TRAVEL TRACKER We built a live dashboard so you can see exactly how far every team is flying between base camp and match city. Compare Curacao's punishing 6,284 miles against Mexico's easy 625, and find out which teams the draw quietly handed the hardest road. Explore the Tracker → https://bapworldcuptracker.netlify.app/ EPISODE SNAPSHOT Welcome to The Bryan Air Podcast. Career intelligence for pilots. We break down executive moves, economic forces, and the technology reshaping how pilots are trained, assessed, and employed. Boardroom decisions land on your…
11 Jun 2026 · 39 min
No Strikes Allowed? SAA's Bid to Make Pilots Essential Could Hit Every SA Airline
EPISODE SNAPSHOT Welcome to The Bryan Air Podcast. Career intelligence for pilots. We break down executive moves, economic forces, and the technology reshaping how pilots are trained, assessed, and employed. Boardroom decisions land on your flight deck. We translate them first. No corporate spin. Just the intelligence pilots actually need. SAA just made a move that should put every South African pilot on alert. The airline has applied to have pilots, cabin crew, and key operational staff declared an essential service, and if it lands, your constitutional right to strike goes with it. Because…
5 Jun 2026 · 39 min
Barrel or Window? South African Pilots Wait as the Middle East Recovery Drags
EPISODE SNAPSHOT Welcome to The Bryan Air Podcast. Career intelligence for pilots. We break down executive moves, economic forces, and the technology reshaping how pilots are trained, assessed, and employed. Boardroom decisions land on your flight deck. We translate them first. No corporate spin. Just the intelligence pilots actually need. This week is a tale of two stories, and if you are a South African pilot sitting in a Gulf hold pool you have to decide which one is true. Story one is the barrel: Iran put drones into Kuwait International days after it reopened, EASA still says do not…
29 May 2026 · 40 min
South Africa Is About To Lose Another Wave Of Pilots: The Middle East Is Hiring Again
EPISODE SNAPSHOT Welcome to The Bryan Air Podcast. Career intelligence for pilots. We break down executive moves, economic forces, and the technology reshaping how pilots are trained, assessed, and employed. Boardroom decisions land on your flight deck. We translate them first. No corporate spin. Just the intelligence pilots actually need. South African airlines are about to lose another wave of pilots. With no real career layers left locally between the regionals and the long-haul foreign jobs, our pilots have once again become the industry's cheapest, best-trained export. Meanwhile…
15 May 2026 · 22 min
50-Knot Gusts Shut Cape Town: The Diversion Chaos, FlySafair's OTP Edge, and Singapore's $2.4B Win
EPISODE SNAPSHOT Welcome to The Bryan Air Podcast. Career intelligence for pilots. We break down executive moves, economic forces, and the technology reshaping how pilots are trained, assessed, and employed. Boardroom decisions land on your flight deck. We translate them first. No corporate spin. Just the intelligence pilots actually need. Cape Town went off the air on Monday. Gusts over 50 knots, crews diverting to PE, East London, and even back to Joburg, and a Turkish long-haul thrown into the mix. Ryan unpacks his shift into the charter market while the Middle East ripples through the…
8 May 2026 · 30 min
The Fuel Shock Reshaping Aviation: IATA Numbers, Spirit's Collapse, India's Crisis
EPISODE SNAPSHOT Welcome to The Bryan Air Podcast. Career intelligence for pilots. We break down executive moves, economic forces, and the technology reshaping how pilots are trained, assessed, and employed. Boardroom decisions land on your flight deck. We translate them first. No corporate spin. Just the intelligence pilots actually need. This week, three stories stacked on top of each other and they tell two completely different versions of where this industry is heading. IATA put hard numbers on the Gulf War, with Middle Eastern traffic down 58.6 percent year-on-year and global growth…
1 May 2026 · 22 min
I Asked Willie Walsh If Pilots Will Still Have Jobs | IATA WDS Highlights
EPISODE SNAPSHOT Welcome to The Bryan Air Podcast. Career intelligence for pilots. We break down executive moves, economic forces, and the technology reshaping how pilots are trained, assessed, and employed. Boardroom decisions land on your flight deck. We translate them first. No corporate spin. Just the intelligence pilots actually need. Sitting across from Willie Walsh in Singapore, I asked the question every pilot, parent, and cadet is asking right now: will pilot jobs still exist in 10 to 15 years. His answer was honest, sharp, and not what the pilotless hype crowd wants to hear. This…
24 Apr 2026 · 39 min
SAA Going Concern Warning | Lufthansa Cuts 20,000 Flights | Pilot Mental Health Bill
EPISODE SNAPSHOT Welcome to The Bryan Air Podcast. Career intelligence for pilots. We break down executive moves, economic forces, and the technology reshaping how pilots are trained, assessed, and employed. Boardroom decisions land on your flight deck. We translate them first. No corporate spin. Just the intelligence pilots actually need. SAA is back in the headlines, and not for the reasons anyone at home wants. The Auditor General has flagged the airline as a going concern with material uncertainty, and SA Technical's financials are reportedly too severe to even audit. That one lands hard…
11 Apr 2026 · 16 min
IATA's Chief Economist on Why SAF Investment Is Stuck and What Fixes It
🎙 EPISODE SNAPSHOT Welcome to The Bryan Air Podcast. Career intelligence for pilots. We break down executive moves, economic forces, and the technology reshaping how pilots are trained, assessed, and employed. Boardroom decisions land on your flight deck — we translate them first. No corporate spin. Just the intelligence pilots actually need. Sustainable aviation fuel accounts for 0.8% of global jet fuel consumption. That is not a typo. Dr Marie Owens Thomsen, IATA's Senior Vice President for Sustainability and Chief Economist, sits down with Bryan in Singapore to explain why the SAF market…
11 Apr 2026 · 39 min
3 Days, 1 Conference, Every Question Answered from Singapore | IATA WDS 2026 Live Episode
3 Days, 1 Conference, Every Question Answered | IATA WDS 2026 Live 🎙 EPISODE SNAPSHOT Welcome to The Bryan Air Podcast. Career intelligence for pilots. We break down executive moves, economic forces, and the technology reshaping how pilots are trained, assessed, and employed. Boardroom decisions land on your flight deck — we translate them first. No corporate spin. Just the intelligence pilots actually need. Three days inside the IATA World Data Symposium in Singapore. Conversations with Willie Walsh, Al Macaulay, and the people shaping the next decade of aviation. Now Bryan and Ryan sit…
11 Apr 2026 · 15 min
Kim Macaulay on Why Data Must Lead AI in Aviation (IATA World Data Symposium)
🎙 EPISODE SNAPSHOT Welcome to The Bryan Air Podcast. Career intelligence for pilots. We break down executive moves, economic forces, and the technology reshaping how pilots are trained, assessed, and employed. Boardroom decisions land on your flight deck. We translate them first. No corporate spin. Just the intelligence pilots actually need. On the Ground at the IATA World Data Symposium in Singapore. Kim Macaulay left a career in banking to take on one of the most important roles in aviation you have probably never heard of. As IATA's Senior Vice President of Information and Data, she built…
11 Apr 2026 · 16 min
Willie Walsh: From Cadet Pilot to Running the World's Airlines | IATA WDS 2026
🎙 EPISODE SNAPSHOT Welcome to The Bryan Air Podcast. Career intelligence for pilots. We break down executive moves, economic forces, and the technology reshaping how pilots are trained, assessed, and employed. Boardroom decisions land on your flight deck — we translate them first. No corporate spin. Just the intelligence pilots actually need. Willie Walsh never planned to leave the flight deck. He flew the 737-200 at Aer Lingus, became a captain, and then one Friday evening at 36 years old was offered a CEO role starting Monday. He took it. What followed was a career that took him from…
11 Apr 2026 · 23 min
Why Experienced Pilots Are Walking Away From the Flight Deck | Al Macaulay
🎙 EPISODE SNAPSHOT Welcome to The Bryan Air Podcast. Career intelligence for pilots. We break down executive moves, economic forces, and the technology reshaping how pilots are trained, assessed, and employed. Boardroom decisions land on your flight deck — we translate them first. No corporate spin. Just the intelligence pilots actually need. A former fleet captain with 20 years of airline experience, multiple licenses across three continents, and the knowledge to run an operation from the inside out is not flying anymore. And he is not alone. Al Macaulay joins Bryan and Ryan live in…
11 Apr 2026 · 29 min
Singapore WDS 2026: The AI Conversation Pilots Need to Hear
🎙 EPISODE SNAPSHOT Welcome to The Bryan Air Podcast. Career intelligence for pilots. We break down executive moves, economic forces, and the technology reshaping how pilots are trained, assessed, and employed. Boardroom decisions land on your flight deck — we translate them first. No corporate spin. Just the intelligence pilots actually need. Bryan Air is on the ground at the IATA World Data Symposium 2026 in Singapore, and the message from the top is clear: AI and data are becoming pilot competencies, not just IT projects. Singapore Airlines collects two gigabytes of data on a single flight…

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Publisher: by Bryan Roseveare
Language: English
Category: Leisure & Travel
New episodes: Weekly
Typical length: 23 min
Latest episode: 9 Oct 2026
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