Episode 69: Captain Heidi Porch

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.

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Episode 69: Captain Heidi Porch is an episode from Talking Flight by Mike Swanigan.

This episode is 01:26:33 long.

This episode was published on Jul 6, 2025.

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