Soaring the sky a glider pilot‘s Podcast
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Our guest pilot today, Mitch Thomson, started his soaring journey 15 years ago picking up RC gliders after years of flying powered RC planes and building scale airplane models, he realized quickly that he wanted to scale up from RC into his own glider when the opportunity presented itself. Soaring in his own glider was something he put on his bucket list for over a decade, and culminated in an orientation flight at Warner Springs California back in 2018 where his first flight took him up into winter wave and so much altitude that he and his instructor in the backseat got to do some fun aerobatic maneuvers on the way back to the field. At that point he was hooked. After they landed, he signed up on the FAA website for his student certificate and then started a rigorous training regimen at the Soaring Academy, finally taking his glider solo flight in Oct 2019. After a Covid virus delay in the Spring of this year, he took his checkride and got his glider private certificate in May. Mitch is now soaring out of Crystal Airport, Charlie November 46 on the Los Angeles Sectional, located in the high desert of Southern California just Northeast of Los Angeles, and is enjoying his days flying his ASG29 in the San Gabriel mountains. Today he will share some interesting stories about his learning journey, mountain soaring, and a couple of mishaps and learning experiences that happened along the way!
For Our Saftey Soaring Segment segment today we are joined by Aerobatic pilot & World Champion Luca Bertossio from Italy.
For Our Soaring Tips and technics segment today we are joined by Barbora mariftava from the czech republic as she discribes soaring in wave
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144: Extraterrestrial Soaring: Max Fabricius Interview & WGC 2023 Update
143: Behind The Art Of Gliding with Simon Lemmerer
142: Soaring To The Podium In Spain: 2023 Woman’s World’s Standard Class Champion Barbora Moravcova
141: Perlan II Back In Argentina: Reaching for 91,000 Feet
140: Flying with your feet: Sara Stearns story
139: Aerobatics & Team Flying
138: Sailplanes & Scud Missiles: Joe Aldrian
137: North To Alaska In The Stemme S12: Michael Reid
136: Soaring The Sonoran: Eric Redweik Interview
135: Soaring Tasmania: Robert Kennedy
134: MiniMoas, Flying Fire Trucks & Sharing the Transferable Skill: Keith Eyler Interview
133: Soaring Below Sea Level: Natan Elsberg
132: 2022 A Year In Review
131: Engineered To Soar: Adriana’s aviation adventure
130: Paragliding & Sailplanes: An aviation adventure with Wim Decrook In Belgium
129: Soaring & Simulation: Getting the most out of your simulator experience
128: Soaring In The Junior Worlds & OLC Rookie Of The Year: David McMaster & Laura Stern Interviews
127: A Mission To Soar In Montana & The Dust Devil Dash 2022: John Foster Interview, Doug Fronius
126: From Sailing to Soaring & The Women’s World Gliding Championship 2022: Georgia Schofield & Barbora Moracova
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