Soaring the sky a glider pilot‘s Podcast
Leisure:Aviation
Our guest today is Zach Yamauchi a 23 year old glider pilot and Aerospace Engineer currently working for a company foccused on unmanned aircraft. Zach learned how to fly gliders while attending Cal Poly. He also had the oppertunity to work on the Nixus project, The first general aviation project using a 28 meter wingspan glider using fly-by-wire technology. Zach will share with us more on this project as well as other soaring adventures he has had.
(01:11) Listener logbook. Christopher Stevenson returns with a new listener logbook as he chats with some west coast pilots about some recent winter flights they had.
(01:13:50) Sergio the soaring master is back with us with a brand new segment called, should I stay or should I go. All this and more now on episode 107 of Soaring the sky!
68: A Soaring Playground In The South American Andes With David Flint
67: A Dream To Soar: Martin Orchard
66: Auto Tows Aero Tows & Winch launching: Bill Daniels
65: Mastering The Thermal: Soaring expert and author Dale Masters
64: Soaring In Paradise With Aerobatics Gliding Team Member James Alaggio
63: Close Encounters And Cracked Canopies: Engin Kurutepe flying the LS4 in Berlin Germany
62: From The Saddle To The Cockpit: Barbora Moravcova Czech Republic National Gliding Team Member
61: Wind Your Watch: Walt Rogers Discus 2a pilot and weather guru
60: Aviate Navigate Communicate: Max Brune flying the HPH 304c out of Germany
59: Sharing A Ship To Soar: Dennis Linnekin Competition Glider Pilot and Airline Captain
58: Soaring And Social Distancing: Daniel Sazhin World Record Holder & U.S Nightly Soaring Contest Director
57: Soaring is REAL flying: Ulrich Beinert Airline Pilot and Glider Pilot
56: Clues In The Clouds: Matt Kuehn Soaring gliders since the 1970's
55: An L-23 Called Oba: Matthew is a Civil Air Patrol member and Student Pilot
54: Too Low Too Slow: Asvath Ravichandran Glider Pilot with a Masters in computational aerodynamics
53: Leaping From The Edge Of Space: Brian Utley Soaring Record holder and World War II Survivor (Part One)
52: Broken Canopy: Brian Utley Soaring Hall Of Fame Member Part Two
51: Strong Thermals Big Sink: Ines Engelhardt
50: Turbulence: Keith Schwab Glider Pilot With a PHD in physics
49: Soaring Namibia:Gaetano Benicasa Glider and Airline Pilot
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