#42 - Farewell Spirit Airlines, Gate Agent Fights Off Family Of 8, Busted My IFR Checkride

#42 - Farewell Spirit Airlines, Gate Agent Fights Off Family Of 8, Busted My IFR Checkride

Author: Mindy and Kevin Lindheim May 6, 2026 Duration: 48:45

Mindy & Kevin share anonymous aviation stories! In this episode, they hear about how after 33 years of incident-free flights, Spirit Airlines closed its doors, how hosts Kevin and Mindy attended the Angel Flight West Endeavor Awards Banquet in Los Angeles, how a gate agent had to wrangle a family of 8 that busted through the jet bridge trying to catch their flight home, and how a student pilot on their IFR check ride got distracted by a fake alternator failure by the examiner and forgot to switch the nav source to localized mode and failed their checkride.

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