FLY with Richard De Crespigny
Episodes
Jake Bailey's Devastating Diagnosis At Just 18
31 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jake Bailey was just like any other Year 12 student in 2015, until a persistent toothache lead to a devastating diagnosis. What doctors initially thou...
The Brutal Reality of Military Life & PTSD with Tim McOwan
17 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Current data shows that as many as 11% of Australians will suffer from PTSD (post-traumatic stress disorder at some time in their life. That figure ba...
Ben Pettingill on Embracing Change & Thriving With A Disability
10 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When Ben Pettingill was just 16 years old, he lost 98% of his eyesight overnight thanks to a hereditary disease that had laid dormant up until that po...
The Art Of Crisis Management with Sue Cato
03 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Crisis management is one of the elements of resilience. How a person or business handles a scandal or disaster can make or break their future. In the ...
Resilience in the aviation industry with Steve Wright
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Steve Wright is an experience military and commercial pilot, who spent many years specialising in human factors and safety management with Qantas. It'...
Inverting The Logic: Tim Duggan on Working Backwards
19 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Well known in the Australian media industry as the co-founder of independent publisher Junkee Media, Tim Duggan knows about the monotony of corporate ...
Former Prime Minister John Howard On Leadership & Tough Decisions
12 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Howard is Australia's second-longest serving Prime Minister, responsible for revolutionary gun law reform and the introduction of the controversi...
Kate Gannon On Risk Management
05 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Risk is one of the elements of resilience, and managing risk is a key way to improve resilience. In this episode, Richard sits down with founder of Re...
The State Of Aviation with MentourPilot's Petter Hörnfeldt
29 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Swedish-born Petter Hörnfeldt was bitten by the aviation bug as a teenager, eventually securing his place in a government sponsored training cour...
Red Brick Thinking with Donna McGeorge & Emotional Intelligence with Amy Jacobson
22 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Fly, Richards with thought leaders in two critical areas of resilience. Donna McGeorge is an expert in productivity and high-perfor...
Tim Jack Adams: Recharging Your Battery
15 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a world that's always vying for our attention and connections are harder to find, it's easy for our internal battery to quickly drain. After a frie...
Fight Or Flight: Dr Jodie Lowinger On Reframing Anxiety
08 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
In a fast moving, disruptive world, where the unexpected can often feel intimidating, threatening and overwhelming, anxiety is one of the greatest soc...
John Blackburn On The Threats To National Resilience
01 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
John Blackburn AO retired from the Royal Australian Air Force in 2008 as the deputy chief of the Air Force, following a distinguished career as an F 1...
Gavin McCormack on resilience in education
24 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
For many of us, building resilience starts in our childhood. So it would make sense that our schools are places that help us learn those vital skills ...
Entrepreneur and aviator Dick Smith's secrets to resilience
17 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Entrepreneur Dick Smith is best known for his groundbreaking chain of electronics stores that grew to humble beginnings in the late 1960s to a billion...
QF32: How The Crew Kept Passengers Calm
10 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When an explosion rocked the cabin of QF32 just four minutes after taking off from Singapore’s Changi Airport, Captain Richard de Crespigny...
QF32: The Passenger Experience In The Cabin
03 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Just four minutes after QF32 took off from Singapore’s Changi Airport, an explosion rocked the cabin, damaging vital flight controls on the Airb...
QF32: The Inside Story From The Flight Deck
27 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
On November 4, 2010, QF32 took off from Singapore’s Changi Airport just before 10am. For the passengers and crew on board, it was a routine take...
Coming Soon: FLY with Richard De Crespigny
11 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
When an explosion rocked a seemingly routine flight between Singapore and Sydney on November 4, 2020, the Captain of QF32 Richard De Crespigny leapt i...