AIPA ‘Stick With It’

About AIPA ‘Stick With It’

Presented by the Australian and International Pilots Association (AIPA), Stick With It is a podcast for pilots who want to learn, reflect, and grow in their profession. Each episode features conversations with experienced guests from current to former pilots and aviation experts, sharing stories, practical skills, and timeless advice for navigating a career in aviation. Fly safe and stick with it.

Publisher

AIPA

Category

leisure

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

3 Sept 2024

Latest episode

30 Sept 2026

Latest episodes

41 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   30 Sept 2026

   Safe Work is for Life — Dr Matt Thomas on fatigue and the long game

   Send us Fan Mail October is National Safe Work Month, and this year's theme — Safe work is for life — sits at the heart of this conversation. Work health and safety isn't only about the immediate hazard; it's about the long-term impact of work on a person's health, wellbeing and future. Few people have thought harder about that in an aviation context than our guest. Host William Kerr sits down with Associate Professor Matt Thomas — principal research fellow in human factors at CQUniversity's...

2. 

   21 Sept 2026

   A Pilot's Survival Story | Chris Fleer

   Send us Fan Mail Chris Fleer was a fit, healthy Qantas pilot when he collapsed in his backyard mid-workout and went into sudden cardiac arrest. He was clinically dead for 11 minutes. What kept him alive was a chain of near-impossible luck: his wife — an architect with zero medical training — started CPR she'd absorbed from watching Bondi Rescue, a neighbour who'd never done CPR leapt off his balcony to take over, and paramedics revived him on the fourth defib shock. His survival odds that da...

3. 

   8 Sept 2026

   Captain Ali Al-Wahabi

   Send us Fan Mail In this episode, we're joined by Captain Ali Al-Wahabi, a pilot and instructor with more than forty years of airline experience. Over a remarkable career, Ali has flown for five major airlines across Europe, Asia and the Middle East, thriving in the kind of multicultural environments that have shaped both his flying and his outlook on life. Ali graduated from Oxford Air Training College in 1976 and went on to fly the Boeing 737, Boeing 747, Airbus A320 and Airbus A330. He's ...

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

15,910

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Spotify

5.0 / 5

5 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 60 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

76

Social presence

0

YouTube

76

Engagement

32

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Books guests

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