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/
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
48: Four Six Whiskey My First Girlfriend: David MacVeigh
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