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John & Martha King are icons of pilot education. For the past 50 years, King Schools has delivered millions of courses to pilots in training, teaching more pilots than anyone in the history of aviation. I'm far from alone in regarding John and Martha as personal aviation mentors. Hear their story and thoughts on the future of general aviation! BROUGHT TO YOU Lightspeed – AMAZING Delta Zulu Headset with Kanari® Carbon Monoxide smart alert technology & Hearing EQity delivering crystal clear flight communication tailored to your individual hearing profile ***AND it's our FLY2WIN Challenge PRIZE! “SocialFlight Live!” is a live broadcast dedicated to supporting General Aviation pilots and enthusiasts during these challenging times. Register at SocialFlightLive.com to join the live broadcast every Tuesday evening at 8pm ET (be sure to join early because attendance is limited for the live broadcasts). Aspen Avionics www.aspenavionics.com Avidyne www.avidyne.com Bose Aviation www.boseaviation.com Continental Aerospace Technologies www.continental.aero EarthX Batteries www.earthxbatteries.com Lightspeed Aviation www.lightspeedaviation.com McFarlane Aviation www.mcfarlane-aviation.com Tempest Aero www.tempestaero.com Titan Aircraft www.titanaircraft.com Trio Avionics www.trioavionics.com uAvionix www.uavionix.com Wipaire www.wipaire.com

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John and Martha King's use of technology and clear, simple, and fun teaching have made aviation knowledge more accessible to pilots throughout the world. After a dismal failure in a business for which they did not have a passion, John and Martha King decided to relax and indulge their love of flying for a while. In the early 1970s, they began teaching flying to mark time while looking for a “serious business.” After teaching live seminars for over a decade, they put their courses on video and began to revolutionize the flight training industry.For more than 40 years, King Schools has delivered many millions of courses to pilots in training. Through intimate video instruction, John and Martha King have taught more pilots than anyone in the history of aviation—for many years teaching more than half the pilots in the United States learning to fly. About King Schools, Inc.King Schools, Inc. is the world's leading producer of aviation training videos and computer software. It was first established in 1975, when John and Martha began flying throughout the country to teach aviation ground school courses. A decade later, they began producing video courses in a spare room of their house. Today, King Schools operates from an 18,000 sq. ft. complex, housing a dedicated video and software production facility. King has delivered more than 700,000 video-based knowledge courses and millions of short-subject video “Take-off” courses.King Schools is keenly aware of the importance of the work we do. During the time someone is learning to fly, flying is the most important thing in his or her life. We are privileged to play such a significant role in the lives of so many committed individuals. We take pride in producing quality work for these special people. Learn more at KingSchools.comhttps://kingschools.com/LIFT-BOOK Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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SkySquad provides an extra set of helping hands at the airport. John and Martha King talk about their new book Lift: How to start, run, and grow your own business.

As I look back on my flying career, I often think about some of the quotes I've heard along the way. Aviate, Navigate, Commumnicate, Monitor the freq. before you speak. Speed is life, altitude is insurance. And, I'll never not be able to hear Martha King say “Please, stay out of the trees.” But, there's one quote that seems to keep coming up time and time again. It's written on the walls of flight schools, seen on plaques and awards, quoted in films, and used in just about every piece of learn to fly marketing material I've ever seen. And that's because it's so beautiful. So expressive of the sentiment we all feel when aviation's running through your veins, and spoken by one of the all time great artists, scientists, and thinkers of the last thousand years. Are you ready? “Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” - Leonardo DaVinci There's just one problem… DaVinci never said that!   Air Facts Article Aviation Quotations Dave English   PlaneEnglish ATC Simulator - Get 10% off with code: delta Support: https://www.patreon.com/podcastingonaplane Buy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/BravoGolf Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/podcastingonaplane/ Twitter: podcastonaplane Website: www.podcastingonaplane.com Music by: Damma Beatz Make sure to use good equipment! Bose Headset: https://amzn.to/2FFaKjN Bose ProFlight: https://amzn.to/2VZAJrP Lightspeed Sierra Headset: https://amzn.to/2suAqYA Lightspeed Zulu 3 Headset: https://amzn.to/2RPGg5i David Clark: https://amzn.to/2FE3y7r

The Hall of Fame's purpose is to recognizes those individuals who have made significant  contributions to aviation education and flight instruction while reflecting credit upon themselves and their profession. It highlights the important role flight instructors play as a foundation for the safety of the entire national air transportation system. Each year (with limited exceptions), one or more inductees are selected and honored. For more information or to nominate someone visit: https://www.nafinet.org/flight-instructor-hall-of-fame

Join NAFI: www.nafinet.org   Watch the full presentation for FREE and earn FAA wings credit:  https://www.mentorlive.site/program/23.html   As flight instructors you have the opportunity to exercise leadership in changing the way the aviation community thinks about, and talks about, aviation safety. The result will be insights that can be life-saving. While discussions about safety are particularly important to general aviation, our current discussions on the subject aren't particularly helpful or insightful and can actually be counter-productive. Aviation leaders often give platitudinous assurances that can't be true and tend to substitute for thoughtful and helpful discussions. Additionally, the aviation community has developed a vocabulary about safety, that can be smug and preachy as well as demeaning and off-putting. We will talk about positive, constructive tools that you can use as a flight instructor that are much more beneficial and productive. Finally, we will encourage you as flight instructors to exercise leadership to change the vocabulary of the entire aviation community. Pilots throughout the world know John and Martha King from their fun video presentations in their courses, and regard them as their personal aviation mentors. The Kings' use of technology and clear, simple, and fun teaching have made aviation knowledge more accessible to hundreds of thousands of pilots and maintenance technicians. After an aircraft accident and discovering their own sense of vulnerability, John and Martha say they have become “born again pilots”. The Kings use humor and stories from real-world cross-country experience to vividly illustrate principles of risk management and pass along practical and insightful tools you will use and teach forever.  https://kingschools.com/

FOQA is a voluntary safety program that is designed to make commercial aviation safer by allowing commercial airlines and pilots to share de-identified aggregate information with the FAA so that the FAA can monitor national trends in aircraft operations and target its resources to address operational risk issues (e.g., flight operations, air traffic control (ATC), airports). The fundamental objective of this new FAA/pilot/carrier partnership is to allow all three parties to identify and reduce or eliminate safety risks, as well as minimize deviations from the regulations. To achieve this objective and obtain valuable safety information, the airlines, pilots, and the FAA are voluntarily agreeing to participate in this program so that all three organizations can achieve a mutual goal of making air travel safer. From AOPA: The FAA requires ADS-B Out capability in the continental United States, in the ADS-B rule airspace designated by FAR 91.225: Class A, B, and C airspace; Class E airspace at or above 10,000 feet msl, excluding airspace at and below 2,500 feet agl; Within 30 nautical miles of a Class B primary airport (the Mode C veil); Above the ceiling and within the lateral boundaries of Class B or Class C airspace up to 10,000 feet; Class E airspace over the Gulf of Mexico, at and above 3,000 feet msl, within 12 nm of the U.S. coast. From AvWeb Insider: If I were more diligent about keeping logbooks, I could look up the date when my airplane partner and I flew up to meet John and Martha King in Jacksonville for some kind of event or another. When we got to the airport to depart, the weather was crap; probably ¼-mile and indefinite ceiling. It was night. This was—and probably still is—just the kind of instrument flying I love. I remember John saying he agreed and was happy to see someone else actually doing it. Despite that avuncular presence on the green screen, Mr. King's inner wild child is revealed by another comment he made earlier that day when we were discussing the five bad attitudes the FAA is always trying to browbeat us with to warn that a mild-mannered podiatrist can metastasize into a psychopath at just a whiff of 100LL. You remember them, right? Anti-authority, impulsivity, invulnerability, macho and resignation. “Hell,” John observed, “you have to have three of those just to want to be a pilot in the first place.” My three are that I have resigned myself to my anti-authoritarian impulsivity and so far my machismo has rendered me untouchable. I guess I'm over budget. And here, I'll segue into the Martha Lunken story Russ Niles filed this week and which is otherwise bouncing around social media like a rubber check in a tile bathroom. Summary: Ms. Lunken, a well-known Ohio aviation personality and Flying Magazine columnist, decided, on a whim, to fly under the Jeremiah Morrow Bridge that carries I-71 over the Little Miami River in Oregonia. Ohio. Here's a picture, so you can see the appeal. It's the highest bridge in Ohio. If your reaction is, “that would be a cakewalk,” you're not alone. But the act is indefensibly boneheaded, which she admits. But for one line in the FAA enforcement letter, it's not wild-eyed crazy, either. The line is: There were people under the bridge. It provides no further detail so we don't know if they were in boats or having picnics on the shore. For me personally, if I were willing to take on the bridge stunt, I'm not willing to risk the remote chance of having the flaming wreckage with me in it land between the chicken and the potato salad of the Stooldrear's Sunday outing. That, if you'll pardon me, is a bridge too far.   I'm not too worried about knocking the bridge over or hitting cars. Still, I wouldn't try it for reasons related to the thrill-versus-consequences ratio. The potential ^%$ storm Ms. Lunken is now inevitably enduring, with this blog being another predictable gust, is hardly worth the payoff. Now if I were flying with Michael Goulian inverted … give me a minute on that. Nor would I accept the argument that one bridge buzz job is necessarily emblematic of a pattern of bad judgment or a gateway drug to yet more demented acts, say, like buying an Ercoupe. Being a columnist and all, Lunken is an opinion leader of sorts and thus expected to be, if not a moral guidepost, at least not too much of a knucklehead. It is a kind of burden to bear, earned or deserved or not. Readers develop a perception of a media persona as somehow an exemplar. Perhaps showing yourself to be all too human is the on-ramp to redemption. Nonetheless, one needn't bore holes under a major interstate artery to reach that higher plane of aeronautical wisdom conferred upon those of us who sin, repent and rejoin the flock. The more mundane runway excursions, fuel exhaustions and taxiing into hangar doors should suffice without the prospect of a permanent chair on the beach because you appeared to show criminal intent. The eye-opener is that the FAA raised the charge to Murder 1 because they claimed Lunken intentionally turned off her ADS-B to avoid detection. She says she did not. This shows the low standard of proof in administrative law. You are presumed guilty if the government says you are and the burden is on you to prove otherwise. They revoked all of her certificates. She has to start anew if she wants to fly again. Odd calculus indeed. If I had to go through all that just to reinstate my certificates, I'd rejoin my bowling league. That said, there might yet be a pretty good T-shirt business is this. Aviation, like motorcycling, has its outlaw contingent. Her case also shows the uneven way penalties are assessed. The day before we reported this, I got a call from a reporter in Oregon asking about a case where a local pilot—the mayor of a town—was suspended for 200 days for operating a Skyhawk that was two years out of annual and without having had a flight review in six years. He appears to have run the airplane out of gas and landed on a beach causing grievous injuries to one of his passengers. Scroll to 11:11 in this video to see it. In my view, he got a light sentence despite a persistent pattern of bad judgment and noncompliance. While we're at it, don't let it escape notice that ADS-B is now an enforcement tool, even if isn't working. And I did not know that if the FAA decides you turned it off to evade detection, it's an automatic—or at least potential—revocation. And since bad things come in threes, I learned of another accident this week in which ADS-B may be a factor. A flight school Skyhawk crash landed on a golf course after an ADS-B track that may show impromptu aerobatics. Even if that isn't true, the ADS-B will be the music for a rug dance for the pilots, I'm sure. There are two blades to this dull axe. On the one hand, if knowing that ADS-B is the all-seeing eye it may appear to be serves as an inhibition to doing stupid stuff—like flying under bridges on a whim—that's not a bad thing. On the other hand, the data might be compromised or made to somehow catch you in a marginal act leading to enforcement that wouldn't have otherwise happened. I'd much prefer they spend their resources trying to find causes for all those unknown engine failures. Of course, if your airplane has no electrical system, like my old Cub, that's different, isn't it? (It does have the 1930's style three-foot N-numbers under the wing, however.) I'm still not doing the bridge thing. Bucket list or not, I've never liked explaining myself and I'm pretty sure I'm not gonna start now. Don't want the time, not doing the crime.  

As I look back on my flying career, I often think about some of the quotes I’ve heard along the way. Aviate, Navigate, Commumnicate, Monitor the freq. before you speak. Speed is life, altitude is insurance. And, I’ll never not be able to hear Martha King say “Please, stay out of the trees.” But, there’s one quote that seems to keep coming up time and time again. It’s written on the walls of flight schools, seen on plaques and awards, quoted in films, and used in just about every piece of learn to fly marketing material I’ve ever seen.And that’s because it’s so beautiful. So expressive of the sentiment we all feel when aviation’s running through your veins, and spoken by one of the all time great artists, scientists, and thinkers of the last thousand years.Are you ready?“Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.” - Leonardo DaVinciThere’s just one problem… DaVinci never said that! Enjoy! -BG Air Facts ArticleAviation QuotationsDave English PlaneEnglish ATC Simulator - Get 10% off with code: deltaSupport: https://www.patreon.com/podcastingonaplaneBuy me a coffee: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/BravoGolfInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/podcastingonaplane/Twitter: podcastonaplaneWebsite: www.podcastingonaplane.comMusic by: Damma Beatz Make sure to use good equipment!Bose Headset: https://amzn.to/2FFaKjNBose ProFlight: https://amzn.to/2VZAJrPLightspeed Sierra Headset: https://amzn.to/2suAqYALightspeed Zulu 3 Headset: https://amzn.to/2RPGg5iDavid Clark: https://amzn.to/2FE3y7r

King Schools is a school that has been focused on helping pilots learn the knowledge portion of their flight, safety and equipment training. John and Martha have really been all in with the aviation community trying to drive the skills that will make pilots safer.John and Martha founded the King Schools more than 4 and a half decades ago back in 1975 (Actually that was the year I was born). They started by giving ground schools while traveling to different cities and then moved into video production. Their usage of green screen technology was revolutionary and frankly these videos from 30 years ago can still be an inspiration to those of us involved in online training today.Their flight instruction video's have grown incredibly over that time and they now have self-study courses that cover pretty much all of the ratings and certificates you would likely be looking for. They have grown to more than 50 employees from their headquarters in Montgomery Field which is near San Diego California and they have their own in house digital studio.All of this has made John and Martha two of the most recognized flight instructors in the world and for what it's worth, it was their video series that I personally used to pass my Private, Instrument and Commercial knowledge tests. It's also what I plan to use to help with my CFI this year.

Thanks so much for tuning into the Pilot Briefing Podcast for the week of July 27, 2020. In this episode you will learn more about: The latest international travel restrictions and what AOPA is recommending, why AOPA is asking the FAA to reexamine a proposed airworthiness directive, what more pilots as asking for to make pireps easier, how AOPA is helping local pilots fight back against increasing costs at one Oregon airport, and the latest lesson from John and Martha King.

In this episode we revisit a chat with flight training legends John and Martha King about their beginnings, how they fly safely together, and Martha's status as an aviation pioneer. This is one of a series of shows in the Flight Time series brought to you by Flight Training magazine. 

John and Martha King's use of technology and clear, simple, and fun teaching have made aviation knowledge more accessible to pilots throughout the world. John and Martha have been champions for the cause of improving the risk management practices of general aviation pilots and they speak to thousands of pilots each year on aviation safety. They work with the FAA's National Aviation Safety Program in producing safety videos. They also volunteer their time to speak to college classes on starting a small business.They are both icons in the world of general aviation and we are so lucky to call them strong allies of The NGPA! Join John & Martha as they talk with you all about the drive that aviation and flying give people to succeed in all areas of their lives.Support the show (https://www.ngpa.org/ways_to_give)

In a time of pandemic, she talks about how needed and powerful women’s connection influence can be, “Women play a special role because we’re natural healers, we’re natural connectors and I think our voices can make a difference in helping calm people and helping to bring people together.” Martha also reflects on a lifetime of making rich connections and offers advice for all to accelerate the development of whole-hearted relationships.Martha King just returned from almost a year as a U.S. Peace Corps “Response” Volunteer in Kabwe, Zambia. She served as an HIV/AIDS Education Facilitator, working under the DREAMS initiative and with the Zambian Ministry of General Education to train teachers in 34 schools under the country’s campaign to prevent HIV infections and teen pregnancies. DREAMS - Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe - is a USAID initiative in 10 African countries, including Zambia. Martha has over thirty years of experience working in health policy leadership for NCSL, a national bi-partisan membership organization of the 50 state legislatures, D.C. and the commonwealths and territories. In this role, she served as program and partnership lead on multiple invitational multi-state meetings for state legislators, state health officials, Medicaid agency directors, maternal and child health directors, and others under grant-funded collaborations with several national partner organizations, including the National Governors Association and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Prior to her time with NCSL, she had seven years of experience in several staff positions for the Colorado General Assembly.Martha served the U.S. Peace Corps for two years in South Korea just after graduation with a double major in Biology and Psychology from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Originally pre-med, Martha was inspired by working in rural county-level tuberculosis and leprosy control through the Peace Corp to pursue public health. This led to her obtaining Masters Degrees in both Social Work and Public Administration from the University of Denver in Colorado. Additionally she is extensively published with respect to public health and public policy.

This is the first episode of a two-part conversation featuring the High Leverage Practice of Connection with Martha King. From being a “barefoot connector” in South Korea for the Peace Corp to working with legislators from all over the country with the National Conference of State Legislatures (NCSL), Martha epitomizes the practice of connection. She reflects how authentic connections are built on the foundation of where we have come sharing “The way we connect depends on how we were raised, what our opportunities were and what kind of culture we were brought up in.” Martha’s life journey is fascinating and exemplifies how women’s influential power grows when respectful connections are built by bringing the real you to the party!Martha King just returned from almost a year as a U.S. Peace Corps “Response” Volunteer in Kabwe, Zambia. She served as an HIV/AIDS Education Facilitator, working under the DREAMS initiative and with the Zambian Ministry of General Education to train teachers in 34 schools under the country’s campaign to prevent HIV infections and teen pregnancies. DREAMS - Determined, Resilient, Empowered, AIDS-free, Mentored and Safe - is a USAID initiative in 10 African countries, including Zambia. Martha has over thirty years of experience working in health policy leadership for NCSL, a national bi-partisan membership organization of the 50 state legislatures, D.C. and the commonwealths and territories. In this role, she served as program and partnership lead on multiple invitational multi-state meetings for state legislators, state health officials, Medicaid agency directors, maternal and child health directors, and others under grant-funded collaborations with several national partner organizations, including the National Governors Association and the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials. Prior to her time with NCSL, she had seven years of experience in several staff positions for the Colorado General Assembly.Martha served the U.S. Peace Corps for two years in South Korea just after graduation with a double major in Biology and Psychology from Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania. Originally pre-med, Martha was inspired by working in rural county-level tuberculosis and leprosy control through the Peace Corp to pursue public health. This led to her obtaining Masters Degrees in both Social Work and Public Administration from the University of Denver in Colorado. Additionally she is extensively published with respect to public health and public policy.

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Martha is so fun to speak with, and that makes sense because she's part of a very fun organization. Bull City Burger and Brewery and Pompieri Pizza in Durham, NC are known for taking a stand on issues they care about (all ingredients, except ketchup, are made in house) and doing things in a fun, memorable way (you'll find out in this episode what you can do for a 26% discount). We've had owner Seth Gross on the podcast and in one of our books, and we were delighted to have the chance to catch up with Martha. Enjoy...

John and Martha King are aviation legends. The husband and wife duo has produced thousands of products through King Schools, and the pair continue to delight audiences with a playful back and forth that anyone who's married can appreciate. But not only do the Kings live and work together, they fly together as well. Tune in to this week's show to hear who is the better pilot and how they keep things fun and safe in the cockpit.

This event is a part of the “GIANT NIGHT: The Poetry Project at 50” platform series. Thought of as the pre-spirit of The Poetry Project, Paul Blackburn gave the first “official” reading of The Poetry Project on September 22, 1966. His poetry, translations, and organization and recording of early downtown readings, exerted a steady and widespread influence across a wide range of aesthetic practices. In his lifetime Blackburn published thirteen books of original poetry as well as five major works of translation. Twelve other books were published posthumously. The Collected Poems of Paul Blackburn (1985) and The Selected Poems of Paul Blackburn (1989) are both available from Persea Books, and a reprint of Proensa: An Anthology of Troubadour Poetry, is due out from New York Review Books in 2016. Join us for this kick-off event in “GIANT NIGHT: The Poetry Project at 50” as we read Blackburn's work. With Kimberly Lyons, Ammiel Alcalay, Simone White, Martha King, Basil King, Jerome Rothenberg, Marcella Durand, Bob Holman, David Henderson, Anne Waldman, Rochelle Owens, George Economou, Mark Weiss, Patricia Spears Jones, Brenda Coultas, Gregg Weatherby, Carlos Blackburn and Joan Blackburn. We will also listen to some tracks from Blackburn's 1966 inaugural Poetry Project reading.

John and Martha King have trained more than half of all pilots seeking pilot certificates over the past 40 years, with over 98 percent passing their written exams on the first attempt. They have won numerous awards and possess every FAA airman certificate available to civilian pilots. In this podcast, they discuss their aviation journey , which includes an around-the-world flight in their Falcon 10 aircraft, and their piloting of the Fuji Film airship. Throughout the podcast their passion for aviation shines through. They are strong supporters of aviation education and risk mitigation.

Martha King discusses the firm's Net Promoter System journey (6:08), including recent pilots that aim to collect better touchpoint feedback (18:55). She also offers advice to others who are considering adopting the system (47:02).

This episode is the first in a series that will run through spring. No yet idea how many episodes will be in the series or exactly what the content will be, but we know this: Spring will be here soon and with it the best time of year in the Northern Hemisphere to learn to fly. And, for that matter, there's still a lot of good flying weather left for those listeners in the Southern Hemisphere.If you've never been up in a general aviation airplane - or if you have, but haven't yet made the decision to start flight training in earnest, these episodes are for you. They're also for people who have started training on a certificate or rating but, for whatever reason, have stopped training.I know exactly what I'm talking about here. I didn't start flight training until my mid thirties. I had a year-long hiatis in my training for the private pilot certificate when my son was born. And I always seem to have a hiatis toward the end of the year because my law practice tends to get very busy at that time of the year. Case in point, I'm probably four or five flights away from the instrument rating in a Part 141 program, but I'm almost embarassed to say how long it's been since I was last at the flight controls of anythng other than a Frasca 142 simulator - mainly because the weather hasn't been flyable, I'm slammed at work, and I have a couple of great kids that justifiably demand my attention.But this is the year. I'm going to polish off the instrument rating. And if you have unfinished business at the airport - or have yet to start that business, the time is either now or very soon.So we're doing a few episodes to give you the motivation and drive to get to the airport - or get back to the airport, as the case may be.And what better way to start than to bring you John and Martha King. John and Martha King are two of the best-known flight instructors and aviation advocates in the world. Starting in the early 1970s, they have built a business that has grown into an 18,000 square-foot complex in San Diego and reaches to every corner of the general aviation world through mail order, multimedia training, and personal appearances. Not to mention at least one podcast episode.The Kings' bios would take at least 20 minutes to try to completely cover (I know - I tried), so we're just going to hit the highlights here. Each holds every single category and class of FAA pilot and instructor certificate. Each of them continues to be active in many categories, regularly flying everything from jet and piston airplanes and helicopters to weight-shift trikes and powered parachutes. They even serve as backup pilots for the Fujifilm blimp.They lecture widely and make many public appearances. You may guess from some prior episodes that it was tough to get access to the people I've interviewed and you'd be right in some cases. Not so with the Kings. I was on the phone with then very quickly after requesting the interview. Lots of aviation icons talk a good game at the big events about being champions of general aviation and aerospace education, but the Kings put their day-to-day time and energy where their reputations are.Lastly, I should tell you that I've been through the Cessna Pilot Center (or "CPC") series of CD-ROM training courses for both private and instrument pilot. Those programs featured the Kings heavily, in addition to Rod Machado and others. Even though I had already been through a private ground school in a Part 141 program before taking the CPC courses, I learned new things from the CPC courses and developed a better understanding of the things I already knew. I have not been through other multimedia courses except a but of the ASA instrument DVDs, and can say little one way or another about other courses, but I was already a pretty sophisticated consumer as private pilot training materials went, and found the Kings' materials very effective.Anyway, on to the interview with John and Martha King.[Interview audio.]Thanks to John and Martha King for appearing on Airspeed. You can find more information about John and Martha and about King Schools at www.kingschools.com. There's a link in the show notes at www.airspeedonline.blogspot.com to the article that I mentioned: Battling the "Big Lie:" John King's Crusade to Change Aviation's Culture. It's definitely worth a read by every pilot and by every every pilot's family and friends who have questions about safety in general aviation.One other thing. I make it a point of telling you guys when I have anything that comes close to a conflict of interest. Like the episode about ballistic recovery parachutes where I disclosed my small stock holding in BRS Parachutes. One could be forgiven for thinking that my enthusiasm about the Kings is motivated by some advertising deal. But I received no promotional consideration from King Schools or anyone connected in any way with the Kings for this episode. None asked and none offered. Their materials are just that good and their generosity with their time is just that . . . well, generous.There might be better training materials out there - and you should avail yourself of whatever works for you - but I was really happy with my experience with the Kings' materials and you probably would be, too. It's all about what makes your flight training experience most productive and what gets people up in the air sooner, more safely, and so inspired after each lesson that they spend five minutes in the parking lot of the flight school trying to figure out which key unlocks the car. Yeah, it can be that way sometimes. And it can be that way soon if you get yourself to the airport and take the first - or the next - step.Lastly - and I'll get to this more in depth in a future episode - the best first step in pursuing pilot training is to visit www.beapilot.com. You can obtain a certificate right then and there that's good for your first flight lesson for $99 or less at any of about 2,000 flight schools that participate in the program.More about John and Martha: http://www.kingschools.com/MeetJohnAndMartha.aspKing Schools: www.kingschools.comBattling the "Big Lie:" John King's Crusade to Change Aviation's Culture: http://www.kingschools.com/news/BigLie.htmCessna Pilot Centers: http://learntofly.com/howto/cpc.chtml