Soaring the sky a glider pilot‘s Podcast
Leisure:Aviation
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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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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