Soaring the sky a glider pilot‘s Podcast
Leisure:Aviation
Born on an Island in south east Alaska Michael Reid made his living as a pilot for 41 years, and retired from Alaska Airlines five years ago. After retirement, Michael decided to purchase a Stemme S12 motor glider, which he now flies out of Anchorage, Alaska. He will be sharing his aviation journey with us and will put us in the cockpit of his Stemme S12 as we soar among the highest peaks in North America. Michael has given us some great links for you below to checkout after you hear his story. Join us now as we go north to Alaska on episode 137 of Soaring The Sky.
Michael Read mareid@mac.com
Assembling a Stemme from a Cobra trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Vtn-32cvY8
A short clip from a full length documentary made by an Alaska Airlines pilot about the 737-200 Combi airplanes before they were retired in 2007.
That’s me complaining about the early departure: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zu1x-uskA0w
Soaring Safety Foundation Incident Reporting Database: http://soaringsafety.org/forms/incident.html
How Michael gets a lot of his weather briefing: https://weathercams.faa.gov/map/-162.13732,58.75623,-137.7257,65.19178
Alaska has more than 200 weather cam locations throughout the state at airports, in mountain passes, etc. The FAA is starting to spread the program to the other states.
Alaska Mountain Soaring Association, a fledgling glider club in South Central Alaska: http://www.akmtnsoaring.com/
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
107: Nixus Fly-By-Wire Project & Long Cross Country Flights: Zach Yamauchi Interview
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