Captains Speaking - An Aviation Podcast

Captains Speaking is the podcast spin-off from Mentour Pilot, the airline captain behind one of the most-watched aviation YouTube channels in the world. The video channel built its audience on long-form breakdowns of commercial airline accidents, and the podcast carries that same investigative approach into a conversational format. Each episode sits Mentour down with another working airline pilot, usually a captain on a widebody or a check airman, and they walk through an incident, a type rating, or a career path. The conversations get deep into the operational side of flying heavy jets in a way that most aviation podcasts never reach. Listeners get to hear how crews actually handle things like dual engine failures, rejected takeoffs at high speed, or the quiet awkwardness of a captain and first officer disagreeing about a weather diversion. Mentour's strength as a host is that he is still an active line pilot, so he asks the kind of specific questions that only come from having been in similar situations. The tone stays respectful even when discussing fatal accidents, and the show consistently separates what pilots did wrong from what the system around them failed to catch. For private pilots interested in moving up, aviation enthusiasts, or just curious listeners who enjoyed the YouTube content, this podcast offers a longer, looser version of the same investigative craft that made the channel famous.