Soaring the sky a glider pilot‘s Podcast
Leisure:Aviation
Today our featured guest pilot is Patrick McMahon, Patrick is a Canadian cross country soaring pilot and flight instructor located in Alberta Canada. Today he flies at The Cu Nim Gliding Club, having learned to fly with the Royal Canadian Air Cadet Program, and learned to soar in southern Ontario at York Soaring Association.
During the week Patrick manages various energy efficiency programs across Canada, with an emphasis on residential retrofits. Soaring is an extension of this work as he considers it "energy efficiency as a sport".
He is an advocate for the sport in Canada, maintaining the social media properties of the Soaring Association of Canada, has served for over a decade on the volunteer boards of his respective gliding clubs, and is a co-founder of the Proving Grounds - an automated task scoring and ranking platform intended to turn glider pilots to soaring pilots in 3 simple steps.
Patrick co-owns an LS6-b "EH", but will fly anything he can when the weather is pleasant and there's a willing tow pilot!
Later on this episode we hear another great Soaring tale from author and glider pilot Dale Masters.
We than head to Blairstown New Jersey for our Tips & Technics segment and catch up with blogger and CFIG Daniel Sazhin. Today we will talk about the importance of being trained on how to handle landing out and one of his recent interesting experiences when he had to do just that.
We then wrap up the podcast with our soaring safety segment with Gary Kemp. Gary has flown gliders for over 40 years and has logged more then 4,000 hours in the cockpit. He will share with us some personal experiences that he has learned from that can help you stay safe to fly another day. All this now on episode 86 of Soaring the sky.
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126: From Sailing to Soaring & The Women’s World Gliding Championship 2022: Georgia Schofield & Barbora Moracova
125: Western Mountain Soaring & The Deadly Trap of Microburst
124: Water Landing : An Interview with David Krautter
123: A Soaring Safari with Bruno Vassel & Dan Wrobel
122: Amelia The Glider Pilot
121: Pineapple Thermals, Cargo Gliders in Japan? & Flying the LP-15: Steve Keltie Interview
120: Area 51, UFOs & Potato Guns: An Interview with Jay McDaniel of Las Vegas Valley Soaring
119: Soaring Slovakia & Aerobatic Dreams In Great Britain
118: Cross Country Across The Country: An Interview with Gordon Boettger
117: Pioneering a new route to Sierra wave: An Interview with Morgan Hall
116: Soaring Austria: An interview with Rudi Schlesinger
115: Cross Country Soaring In The French Alps: An interview with Christopher Fleming Of Fayence Soaring
114: Sailplanes, Hang Gliders & Ultralights: Ian Brubaker Interview
113: The Soaring Kings Of YouTube: World Premiere, Bruno Vassel Interviews Stefan Langer
112: Project AK-X The Flying Wing: Dominic Poppe Interview
111: Behind The Lens Of A Glider Pilot: An Interview With Tobias Barth
110: Show Me A Sine: Making Waves In The Sierra Mountains
109: Crash Landings & Mid Air Collisions
108: A Soaring Fix From The Gliding Junkie
Bonus Episode: A Bird‘s Eye View With Stefan Langer
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