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/
Bonus Episode: Perlan Project
106: World‘s Most Interesting Man: Gavin McClurg
105: Rock Polishing, Low Saves & Launch Pads: Tom Coussens Interview
104: American Flying A JS3 The Alps: Howie Bohl Interview
103: 1st Virtual Sailplane Grand Prix Champion: Ben Fest Interview
102: Soaring The World‘s In Montlucon France: Daniel Sazhin Interview
101: Pure Gliding Over New Zealand: Tim Bromhead Interview
100: 100th Episode celebration With Bruno Vassel
99: Racing In Nephi: 18 Meter Nationals
98: Sucked Into A Thunderstorm, 20 meter Two Seater Nationals & Soaring In The Olympics?
97: Reaching The Turn Point, Vegas & Crossing The Andes: Henrique Navarro 8X Brazilian Champion
96: Final Glides, Pulling G's & Dolphin Flying
95 Winglets, War Stories & Dust Devils : Dave Reilly Interview
94: Mastering Gliding In Brazil : Sergio Lousada
93: Monkeys, Coconuts, Field Fires & John Denver: An Interview With Don Ingraham
92: Soaring On Mars Club Class Nationals & The Perlan Project
91: Open Cockpits & Vintage Flying Machines: An Interview with Flying Simon
90: Tow Planes Gliders & Birds Of Prey
89: Soaring In The Philippines with Rolf Dunder
88: A Gift Of Soaring & Soaring Across America: Bill Palmer & Eric Carden Interviews
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