Episode 69: Captain Heidi Porch
About this episode
Captain Heidi Porch shares her journey from teenage pilot to retired Delta A330 Captain, including a dramatic ocean ditching experience.
In this episode of Talking Flight , we sit down with retired Delta A330 Captain Heidi Porch. She began flying at 16 and quickly found herself ferrying small aircraft across the Pacific. One of those flights ended in a dramatic ocean ditching 500 miles off the coast of Hawaii — a harrowing experience she recounts in her gripping new book, Ditching the Sky . Captain Porch shares the highs and lows of her journey from teenage pilot to the left seat of a wide-body jet, and what it truly takes to succeed in the airline world.
People in this episode
Host: Mike Swanigan
Guest: Heidi Porch
Topics covered
- aviation
- pilot experiences
- airline industry
- ocean ditching
- retired pilots
Keywords
- aviation
- pilot
- Delta Airlines
- ocean ditching
- Heidi Porch
- airline success
- Ditching the Sky
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Delta
Books & works: Ditching the Sky
Places: Hawaii
More episodes of Talking Flight
- Episode 72: Retired Alaska Airlines Captain Edward Robertson
- Episode 71: Flight Situations
- Episode 70: Alaska Airlines Captain and YouTube Creator Brendan ODonnell
- Episode 68: Captain Tad Santino
- Episode 67: USAF Academy Cadet Jaylen Palmer
- Episode 66: Podcaster and Corporate Pilot Captain Rick Jones
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