Soaring the sky a glider pilot‘s Podcast
Leisure:Aviation
On this episode of the podcast we first talk with Pete Appleby, Pete is a soaring pilot with the Merlin Soaring Association club in Virginia. He has been flying gliders since 2012 and discovered sailplanes through building and flying R/C model planes. He has participated in wave and XC soaring camps as well as finishing 5th in the sports class for his first regional contest in Perry South Carolina in 2018. Pete is currently flying a 1980 DG 200 and just finished his Gold Badge in May of this year. Today he shares his aviation journey and talks about the importance of trailer maintenance and shares with us a scary incident he was involved in while transporting his glider on a busy highway. Later we will hear another Soaring tale from Dale masters, author and glider pilot and this one is called "Too Late To Rush Too Soon To Quit" For our Tips and technics segment today its Miguel Inturmendi from the Perlan Project talking about soaring in stratospheric wave.
We will then wrap up the show with our soaring safety Segment as Ben Mayes talks about aerobatic training and how it can make us better and safer pilots. All this and more now on this episode 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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