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Airplane Geeks Podcast
"air venture" Discussed on Airplane Geeks Podcast
"Advances in aircraft towing systems and personal flying vehicles, and we also have a story about becoming an airplane geek. I'm max flight. This week I've come out of the New Mexico national force, and I'm in Albuquerque for the international balloon fiesta, which is about to start as I record this. As with the last few episodes, we're running pre recorded segments. Well, I'm not a largely off grid road trip. This time we have an interview with Vince howey, the CEO of aircraft towing systems worldwide LLC, or ATS. Micah and I learn about how this company is working to lessen the considerable cost and environmental impact of aircraft movement on the ground. Then our main man Micah brings us a story he calls films with my father, which explains why Micah is an airplane geek. And finally hillel glazier, our aviation entrepreneurship and innovation correspondent has another beyond the press release interview from EAA air venture OshKosh 2022. This time he speaks with ranny plot, the CEO of air EV. The company seeks to create personal intuitive flying vehicles at a production rate usually associated with automobiles. They recently demonstrated flight and control at their facility in Israel. All right, here's the interview with Vince howey. Hi, max flight. And I'm here with our main man, Micah. Micah, how are you doing? Doing just great. We're in the middle of our our last heat wave, although by the time this is aired, that'll certainly be over, but and then we're expecting a really cool, wonderful weekend. Fantastic. Well, we're here today to speak with a guest that we have. Vince howey. Vince has more than 36 years of experience in the aerospace industry at the federal state and local government levels as well as in industry. And in 2016, Vince helped build and incorporate aircraft towing systems worldwide LLC in Oklahoma, and he's now the vice president and CEO of the company. But Vince has been very involved in promoting aerospace in Oklahoma from November 2013 until recently he was the director of aerospace and defense for the Oklahoma Department of Commerce. He was appointed to the Oklahoma science and industrial development authority, Oklahoma strategic military planning commission, the Oklahoma governor's unmanned aerospace systems council, it keeps going in the Oklahoma F-35 task force and he's on the Oklahoma careers pathway subcommittee. Vince also served in the U.S. Air Force for 29 years and he's a former member of the senior executive service. So the topic today is aviation ground vehicle technology and Vince were really pleased to have you join us on the airplane geeks podcast. Thank you. It's great to be here. Boy, you've really, really been active in Oklahoma. With all of these organizations promoting aerospace and the development in Oklahoma, I guess. Where does that passion come from? You know, I think part of it comes from my dad. He was in the air force during Korea and then he worked for tinker Air Force Base as a civilian for, I think he worked 28 years there. And so it just came from dad dad was the guy that brought the cruise missile on for the United States Air Force and I just grew up with it. Fantastic. Yeah, I love it when someone gives back, I guess I'd say in that way because with all these organizations, all of these efforts that you have been involved in, would have been the we'll get to the main topic here, but would have been the main challenges that you've seen over the last few years, perhaps. Yeah, probably I was the aerospace defense director for the state for two different governors, four years I worked directly for Mary Fallon and then one year for governor Kevin stitt. And Oklahoma's a relatively small state, but aerospace is the second largest industry in the state. It's $44 billion, only second to oil and gas, which is 66 billion. And people just don't realize how much aerospace is in the state and how much, how many jobs that generates in the economic impact and what we do for the nation. And so, you know, as the aerospace and defense director, my job was to go around the world and recruit companies to come to the state. And, you know, no close relatively unknown in that area. But that's probably the biggest challenge. That's great. Well, so ATS, maybe we can start off talking about how aviation movement, if you will, around airports, occurs these days. I'm envisioning lots of different methods for moving things around the airport grounds, some electric, some fossil fuels. Can you kind of give us a sense for where aircraft movement is these days? Yeah, if you think about it, we still move aircraft around airports the same way we did a hundred years ago. Basically their moods with thrust and thrust is the most inefficient way to move aircraft. Aircraft are designed to use thrust to fly through the air. Of course, and then it's a super efficient way to do it. But on the taxi waste, most of the time, they are moved with using airport thrusts. Now around the gate and ramp area, they are diesel tugs that move most of the time nowadays. There are some electrics that are out there, we do have a quasi competition with one called taxi bot and another one where it's called wheel tug where they try to motorize the nose landing gear. But there's nothing like what we have, which is a track channel system to go under the taxiway to take aircraft from the gate to the runway and all the way back to the gate that goes back and forth, both directions. And so I think cost is probably a large element at play here. Under the current methods for moving aircraft, as well as other movements on the airport grounds. Absolutely, if you think about it, 80% of the commercial fleets out there are made up of 7 37s or a three 20s. And that aircraft burns about 9 gallons of fuel per minute. The average taxi time in the United States is 16 to 27 minutes. So if you take that 9 gallons of fuel times 16 minutes of taxi time, times however many movements and at a large airport can have upper to 8 or 900,000 movements, but let's just pick 500,000 movements. That's 74 million gallons of fuel that are burned every year at one airport just to move aircraft around the airport. And then you take that times whatever the price of gas is, you know, if it's $4 or whatever, that's $300 million a year that's used in fuel. At the same time, they're putting emissions out. The two main emissions that go out at the same time is CO2 and nitrous oxide. And CO2 puts out about 20 pounds of emissions per gallon, a fuel burn. So when you look at that 74 million gallons of fuel that's burned, that's equates to about a 148 pounds of CO2 that saved or not put into the atmosphere. And the same thing about 29 million pounds of nitrous oxide that doesn't go in the air. So it's a tremendously expensive way to move aircraft around airports in two regards and fuel and cost and then to our environment. And then on the environment, there's an interesting report out that was published by Shell and Deloitte decarbonizing aviation cleared for takeoff. And they found that in 2019, the aviation industry accounted for about 3% of global carbon dioxide emissions. And that's pretty much in line with other estimates for that. But kind of a shocking number is that that number, that percentage is expected to increase to 22% by 2050. So that's a huge amount of emissions, and then also from the report we see that 10% of the emissions could be achieved by
Airplane Geeks Podcast
"air venture" Discussed on Airplane Geeks Podcast
"At air venture last week, and I just saw it, and I thought, what a cool idea that I forgot they said, I think since the beginning of time, there are some 28,000 PA 28 aircraft, which is the manufacturer's ID for a Cherokee at archer, a warrior, whatever it might be. But to switch them all with an STC to electric I thought, wow. So that means not only finding an electric motor that will power the PA 28, but I imagine that means somehow completely removing the fuel tanks and putting the batteries maybe in the wings. I didn't even know there were batteries that would be able to power that, but I thought this is going to be such an interesting story to follow that when the STC comes out whenever it does, we have to have their people on the show. And one of the interesting things about it is that the battery packs are being sourced from age 55, which is a company that was founded by one, if not both of the pilots. I think it was just one of them who flew these solar impulse around the world, which was an all solar aircraft. So that was Andrea borschberg, I believe, is the one who started to age 55. And of course, when that airplane flew around the world, one of the places it stopped was Moffett field, which is right here in my lights out in Mountain View. We later had Andre come to speak at a meeting of the aero club in Northern California. In fact, he brought his son along his son was at the time looking at, even though they were Swiss, he was looking at jobs here in Silicon Valley. So it kind of interesting to see the connection, all that technology from solar impulse is led to this new company, which is supplying the batteries. And it's for the motor. They're looking at a saffron motor. U.S. TM 100 electric motor, sourced from saffron, age 55, of course, is Switzerland based. I think CAE is a pretty large operator of piper archers, so they know the airplane. Well, there are huge aviation training company. I mean, flight safety and CAE are the major players in corporate and commercial aircraft pilot training and mechanic trading, but they have other divisions as well where they take people from now. They take people from no experience at all so they can even teach a guy like me how to fly. Despite how much money that would probably cost them. But so again, CAE is one of the big players because they are the international side. Flight safety is mostly based in the U.S., although there are flight safety facilities in other countries, but CAE is absolutely everywhere. And I think one of their big divisions is producing the large multi-million dollar simulators that are used by flight safety and other places around the world. So that's a big business for them. And they're based up in Canada. I'm not sure if they think flight safety builds their own Sims, but I might be wrong, but again, you know, bombardier for the globals. And those are all CAE simulators, they have that because they're up in Canada, which is the country that even we Americans can't can we visit Canada yet. I don't think we can go up there. Okay. But again, they have a very different kind of an international accent than flight safety does. Not bad, not better, just different. All right, do we have a new forecast? This came from Boeing. It's their pilot and technician outlook 2022 to 2041. AOP a has a piece on it, Boeing forecasts need for it. Now get ready for this 2.1 million aviation professionals. So this is about the commercial aviation industry. So Melissa is not included in this. It's minus business aviation and helicopter operations. And the outlook, the forecast says there's a need for 602,000 new pilots, 610,000 new technicians, 899,000 new cabin crew, and this is over the next 20 years. So I mean, we've seen the Boeing forecast in the past. And these numbers are just kind of staggering. Did you see the part down at the bottom there where they said that there's no additional need for any aviation podcasters, apparently they're far enough out there. There's no need for any further competition because they're just great shows out there already. Oh, and there are so many podcasts now. It's unbelievable. There are questions. Everybody's a podcast. But think about that. 2.1 million, I mean, think guys, how old will you be Melissa? We won't ask you this. How old will the rest of us be in 2040? I mean, I'll be 47 by then. Hubby, lucky to be alive in 2041. But yeah, the big numbers now, they also point out that 25% of airline pilots will reach the mandatory age 65 requirement requirement. In the next ten years, many technicians are also reaching retirement eligible age. So clearly and as you would expect, Boeing is not only looking at how many positions are required for the demand they forecast, but what is the fall off of the existing population of professionals because of the retirement, either mandatory or otherwise. There's a few differences, Boeing says the forecast is lowered for pilots by 10,000 from last year's report. Of course, 602,000 plus or -10,000 is still a lot. But they also noted that the data now excludes Russia and Central Asia in the new outlook. Russia, I can imagine why. Nancy Pelosi, okay, never mind. I know politics. Sorry. Don't yell at me. It just came out. And related to this, I just saw a few days ago that senator Lindsey Graham has introduced a bill in Congress to increase the age of the mandatory retirement age for airline pilots from 65 to 67. So if that goes through, then that creates a little bit more supply for airline pilots. Really? Not a chance because alpha help is against it. If you had the pilots union and perhaps any other support organization on board with that, I'd say possibly, but with alpha absolutely dead set against it, because they don't think it's going to solve anything. It's just going to make things more difficult because of course U.S. pilots can not fly as PIC internationally if they're older than 65. So then that's going to throw the airline scheduling system into chaos and more junior people are going to end up on the left seat with more experienced people in the rights. They just see it as a formula for disaster. And I don't believe that there's been anybody except Lindsey Graham that said, yeah, this is a good idea, except the airlines, because the airlines will do anything to get more bodies.
Pilot to Pilot - Aviation Podcast
"air venture" Discussed on Pilot to Pilot - Aviation Podcast
"Oh, last man. I mean, it's both of us too. It's both of us. It's not all you, but yeah, sometimes it's definitely a bit of a crunch to get the podcast done. But we make sure we get it done. And we always pull through, don't we? Yeah, having a kid and my schedule doesn't work out too conducive for this and then your schedule is crazy too, so. Aviation has crazy schedules, but we make it work, man. That we do. Exactly. You are pivotal to what we do, so I mean, I appreciate everything you do. It's a lot of fun. And you made my life a lot easier by editing, so. It's a blast but you make it pretty easy too, 'cause I don't have much editing to do. It's good. That's awesome. We're gonna do a dedicated episode for you soon. There you go. It'll happen soon. You are the EAA mastermind between the two of us. You know everything about them. One of them, yeah. It's funny. It's changed over the years. And 2022, this is my tenth year at air venture. And my 5th year volunteering with radio. So I'm incredibly fortunate to be volunteering with radio. I'm very thankful for them for allowing me to work with them. And every year, there's something a little bit different. The goals change, you know, when I was looking at schools, those universities here. So when I was job hunting, there's plenty of employers here. Now I'm just out covering the show and taking it all in and there's just so much going on, but it's a wonderful place for it. What's your favorite part at EA that maybe some people don't know about? Like the first person that comes here, the very first time, what should they go see that maybe they would overlook if they didn't know. My thought, first time, first year, just take it all in, take as much of it in as you can and don't worry about trying to pick up one thing in specific because it really is, there's so much going on. It's just overload. And know that it is impossible to do it all. So just pick out one or two of your favorite things, whether it's modern airliners, we've got triple-sevens here. There was an a three 30 here a couple days ago, whether you're interested in warbirds, vintage aircraft, some beautiful beechcraft 17 stagger wings that pick a couple things that you're interested in, check those out and then just try and take it all in and then me personally, now my favorite thing about your adventure is the people. And I mean, it's been said before EA says it come for the airplane stay for the people. And at this point, too, a big part of it is coming back and seeing friends and it really is like a big family reunion. Absolutely. Absolutely is. Well, Kevin, you're the man. I appreciate you more times than not, but I appreciate coming on, man. Well, like I said, we'll get a more dedicated episode soon, but it's always fun talking to you. Justin, it's always a blast. Thank you. Thank you. Oh yeah. Aviation, that's a wrap on today's episode. If you enjoyed it, let me know. We'll try to do some more live podcasts in the future. I hope you're having a great day. And as always, happy flying.
Airline Pilot Guy - Aviation Podcast
"air venture" Discussed on Airline Pilot Guy - Aviation Podcast
"Some applause is due for getting to the finals. Over. Yes. I prefer bowling a maiden over, but there you go. Wow. I mean, there's competition, which is a cricket analogy. We lost. Guys. What was that? Anyway. So that's certainly been my oh, and my other achievement was to delivery of a beautiful recliner, which my wife bought me for our wedding anniversary. How is it? Delicious. It's delightful. It's fabulous. Yes. She has a new diamond in area. And I've got a recliner. Absolutely. Very good. All right. Oh, just me. Let's see. I'll try to make it quick so we can move on to some feedback here. Let's see, Independence Day. July 4th in the U.S.. Well, it was July 4th everywhere, actually. But we call it Independence Day. The peachtree road race in Atlanta, I did not run in that, but one of our co hosts did, doctor Steph. And I think she did a pretty personal best at that ten K and she, after the race, she called me up and said, hey, I'm hungry. You want to go for lunch somewhere. I went, sure. So I went down and picked her up and we had lunch at this appropriate 4th of July Independence Day celebration to have Mexican food. I guess? No, actually, hot dogs and hamburgers and that kind of thing. But we had Mexican cuisine and enjoyed that. And so it was nice seeing Steph when she was in Atlanta. Right now I'm on a three day trip. Memphis yesterday, Jersey City today. And tomorrow, I'll be home in the early afternoon. And then you're off. Then I'm off for the rest of the month, my vacation kicks in on the 10th of July and extends through the first week of August. And of course, everybody knows that I'm planning on heading up to OshKosh for the EAA air venture. And I'm going to have all my t-shirts and making teachers. Yeah, I'm going to have to do that. I have a whole long list of things that I need to do. I just need to remember to look at the list. But yeah, so looking forward to the last minute. Liz, I never leave things to the last minute. I always leave thanks to the last minute. Anyway, so anyway, it's going to be a lot of fun. So this is my last trip for the month, and then next trip will be sometime. About this time next month. And so I'm going to enjoy that. And those of you who are fortunate enough to have the time off and take the make the travel to OshKosh, I hope that you'll seek me out, try to find me. I'll be camping at camp scholar. And somewhere there. And more information about that as we get a little bit closer. And yeah, so that's my OshKosh update and we talked about the new merchandise from the man who made it happen. Jim, and so I'll check that little tick box here. And air venture talked about that. Okay, cover art. Captain Nick. Oh, yeah, captain Nick is back as our creative artwork genius. And of course, the title of the last episode collision. What collision. And of course, very nice depiction of an engine, falling off, I mean, if you have a collision on the ground, you never know what might happen, right? It might lead to the engine falling off. The contrail from that left engine ending, a very clever artwork. Did you put the did you hide the show number somewhere? I didn't look. Yeah, the share number is actually quite relatively visible. You might need to expand the picture up a little bit, but yeah. You need to well, I don't have to do that with the slides. If you want to go find it, you'll need to look around a little bit. Okay, is that a clue or a round? Possibly. Okay. Cool. So we need a good, some good suggestions for this week, of course. Of course. The T-shirt graphic. And just use that. Liz was suggesting that we just use the T-shirt graphic, but that might be more suited to the graphic for the show that we record up at OshKosh. We could always use it twice. Well, we'll see. Anyway, what else? Can we talk about that? Okay, it's time for coffee fun, so here we go. I'm gonna hit that button right there. Johnny, how much more coffee? No thanks.
Airline Pilot Guy - Aviation Podcast
"air venture" Discussed on Airline Pilot Guy - Aviation Podcast
"So for someone who's a newcomer to air venture, or even someone who just, well, I'll start with a newcomers for someone who's a newcomer to adventure it could be a little bit daunting to see these procedures and think, man, you know, I've never done anything like this, especially the caliber of pilot you get at air venture. It's EAA. It's experimental aircraft association a lot. These people, and it's no problem, but a lot of these people maybe live kind of out in the outskirts of big cities. They might just fly out of non towering airports. So their aircraft control interaction might be very minimal as far as their normal everyday flying. And now all of a sudden you're putting them into some of the most complex and congested airspace in the world for this one week a year. Which can be a little bit it can be intimidating. So what we do and what we did last year and what we're going to do again this year is provide people a way to practice their arrival ahead of time into OshKosh on their flight simulator. Using the actual controllers, the actual controllers are going to be there the next week after sim ventures and ventures July 14th through 17th and air venture begins. I think the 23rd or 24th. So it's about 7 to ten days between some venture and air venture. And so we're going to have those actual controllers who are going to be working the traffic. The flight simulator draft, I should say, as it comes down the tracks. And you're going to be rocking your wings for those unfamiliar. That's a big part of air venture. You don't really talk to ATC. You rock your wings to acknowledge the transmissions that way TC can keep the mic, the bush attack pushed down the whole time. They don't have to wait for read backs. So it's really unique, really unique procedures. So whether you're a first timer or whether you're a seasoned veteran flying into air venture, even if you're a veteran, you've likely only do this procedure once a year. And I think that you could probably anyone could benefit from a little bit of proficiency in a little bit of practice ahead of time. And that's our goal. And that's our mission is to allow people to practice ahead of time, whether you're a rookie or a veteran, and it all make air venture just a safer experience for everybody for you, people on the ground, other airplanes, you name it. And then of course, like Jeff kind of mentioned the byproduct of that is that if you aren't flying to air venture, maybe you're not even a pilot, maybe you're just a flight simulator enthusiast, whatever it might be, wherever you are in the world, you can still join in for sitting venture just for an entertainment value and get an idea of how it would feel to actually fly into OshKosh with hundreds and hundreds of airplanes around you with ATC talking a mile a minute. It's going to be a lot of fun. Is it possible to see a complete bystander and watch some other person participating and sort of. We don't necessarily have an official way to do that, but naturally twitch.tv, which is a streaming platform for gamers. A lot of people, I shouldn't say a lot, but some people use that to stream their flight simulator flights as well. So July 14th through 17th, if you go to twitch.tv or twitch.tv, I should say, and you just type in pilot edge or sim venture, you're likely to find several people who are streaming it at the time. And if not, it'll be on YouTube as well. You can even find YouTube videos now from the past two years adventures. If you just type in some venture, you'll see things come right out. That would be really cool, especially for a lot of the folks listening to our show who aren't pilots or who are and have wondered about what the experience is really like going into OshKosh during the air venture. I did have, I did look at some of the videos you have on YouTube on the pilot edge videos and very, very I love the concept and how you're training people and informing people of certain procedures and that kind of thing. I'm wondering, do you have any controllers from, let's say, John F. Kennedy international, the New York City area, and like an interact with them, because one of our actually one of our co hosts, captain Nick, was wondering, is it possible for somebody participating in the sim on pilot edge interacting with John F. Kennedy international controllers to be to be offended just like in real life? So none of our sim venture controllers are from the New York area, at least you wouldn't know it from their voice, and I don't think that I don't think that just out of the ones I'm trying to rack my brain. Typically, air venture controllers come from your smaller level towers. That's not to say you can't get a big class bravo. I know of two controllers from DFW who do air venture. So that's not to say that it has to be a small level tower, but typically that's kind of where the controllers tend to tend to come from. So no, I don't know of any from JFK as far as cutting offended. The controllers do a great job of handling everything. Back in 2020, I kind of warned them. I said, guys, this is the first time we're doing this. I don't know. And by the way, for those listening, there's a when you're actually flying in air venture, you use something that previously called a notum is now known as a notice this year, EA is changed from a notum to now and notice. And so when you're flying in, you have this big booklet, it's about 25, 30 pages, then you can have it on your iPad or print out whatever you want. But that's the whole procedure. That tells.
Airplane Geeks Podcast
"air venture" Discussed on Airplane Geeks Podcast
"So I had to be a little bit more cautious than he was able to do, but yeah, a great time is a great event for the museum. It looked like it was a great success. Any pigs fly while you were there? No, just into pieces of pig flew into people's mouths, but other than that. No. Live pig? No, no, no, no. Bacon, bacon, bacon bacon. So to cease to pig. Right, dead pig. A shout out. I just wanted to mention, you know, this year's air venture OshKosh, 2022. There's always a number of different themes at these events as those of you who have attended no. And one of them this year is celebrating the 30th anniversary of the young eagles. The EAA young eagles program. They call that the largest youth aviation program ever created. So it's 30th anniversary. They're going to have a number of events over the course of air venture week to celebrate that some flights, some forums, recognition throughout the week. And there will be a special focus on young eagles that will take place on Thursday. That's July 28th. But, you know, some of the statistics boy, you know, I knew young eagles was a big program, a large program. But according to the program manager, David lighting more than 50,000 volunteer EAA member pilots have flown nearly 2.3 million young people. This is over 30 years. Just amazing. So they want to recognize this year at OshKosh, those volunteers, the people that made the program a success. And also to encourage new pilots to get involved in the program. Very important thing that the EAA does, I think everybody will agree with that. And the return them all safely to the ground too. I hope so. Yes, yeah, it's definitely important to get kids involved in aviation at that young age when they're teenagers. I think that most of us who've had a lifelong interest in aviation kind of hooked on to it in our youth and the future generation of aviation pilots, mechanics, and workers. In fact, just a couple of days ago, I landed at San Carlos airport, which has a museum on the field. And as we turn to taxi back, I noticed some kids at the fence. And I opened the window and I started waving madly, and of course they saw me and they waved back. And I said to the pilot that I was flying with. There's an unwritten rule in aviation. You must wave at all the kids. I mean, they get so excited when they see an airplane taxing by and oh my gosh, the pilot or in this case the guy on the right seat waved at me. So I want to encourage everybody. Please wave at the kids. When you're flying, offer to take kids for a ride. If you're an EA member, definitely fly young eagles. You've got me thinking about launch pad again because he loved the young eagles program and he loved taking kids up in his folk wolf and flying them and the kids just loved him too and it's the second time we kind of talked about them tonight and this is just one of those times where it's just kind of brings a tear to my eye thinking about that because boy that he just, you could hear him glowing when he talked about it. And I can recall watching him work at the pipistrel booth or display at sun and fun and of course he was a jovial guy and would give anybody who came by his time, but when the kids came by, boy, he just lit up and he gave them maybe even more time than they were, they were happy to take, but he would answer all their questions, explain everything. He would draw them in. And it was just wonderful. So yeah, he's a real role model in that respect for sure. And one of the things I love that he would do and he would always talk about because you know he was in a folk wolf and he was proud that it was a warbird and he would say this is a war bird and I don't take passengers in it. I only take crew and he would handle the checklist and he'd say read that off to me. I just think it was beautiful. Brilliant. Brilliant. All right, add to some listener Mayo. Rob, you had some kind of correspondence or conversation with someone, didn't you? Listener Dave sent us a story, a true life story, a few weeks ago, to the airplane geeks because he heard I was going to be presenting a safety session at Chicago executive airport on Wednesday of this week about the topic of VFR flying into IMC conditions, which is a no no. In fact, max and I talked about this on his show a few weeks ago. And he gave us a really great real life example of how it can happen and what went down. And so rather than just read his letter now, I pre recorded it and I thought it only runs about two minutes. I thought maybe we could play it for everybody. Dave has given me his full blessing. I'm just not using his last name. All right, so this is you reading days letter. Correct. I received this letter from Dave. He said, years ago I was getting my private license, flying my cross country and assessed a one 50. I even remember the tail number because I so loaded it. November 9 one four three uniform. Anyway, it was about this time of the year, actually, and I was flying from baraboo, Wisconsin to Janesville, eventually headed back to Milwaukee. The weather was ceilings around 3000 feet, maybe 3500 light rain, temperatures in the 40° range, and the weather had come in from the west, but I was ahead of it, or so I thought, as I entered Madison's airspace, I called the controller, gave her the latest status, heading out to all that, and the controller told me to maintain a heading. So I think I'm fine. Then about two minutes later, she tells me to turn to one 8 zero to avoid the airport. I turn around and then glance down to look at my knee board. So I'm clear about where I'm going. I look up and I can't see the prop. I couldn't see the left main gear. Nothing. So, oh, well, I instantly get on instruments. I remember telling myself, stay calm, skin, don't fixate, fly the airplane. I took a deep breath..
EAA's The Green Dot - An Aviation Podcast
"air venture" Discussed on EAA's The Green Dot - An Aviation Podcast
"For reading these stories and it's so much more there's so much more to it. There's so much more engagement I think that's involved with telling people we want to read your story. This isn't a drawing. You know, this isn't a sweepstakes where you're just getting a ticket. People are sending in their stories. And last year, the theme was about sort of flying adventures in this year as can be able to dig deep into the histories of their aircraft until those stories and the judging will begin tonight or tomorrow morning again as we're recording this. And it's tough. It's a challenge because we've got so many people out there who are so excited to tell the stories and it's been, it's just been a great way for us, even though we've only met in person twice now. It's great for us to work together and for the two organizations to work together. Yeah, I love it. And the idea that the contest is centered around people's stories or people's airplane stories and because this is a EA community of pilots and let's don't make it about us. Let's make it about what you do. And that's what's so cool. And the reason OshKosh is cool is because we all show up, you know? That's exactly right. And you can go outside right now. This place is nice, but it's not as cool as the last week of July. And so the tourism bureau and apology right now. We understand what you understand what you mean. I'm saying that people make the difference. And so it's been great to shine a spotlight on them with the contest. Well, and it's been so much fun. So you mentioned your first time at air venture with flight outfitters since you two mats and two bags and it's obviously a grown since then to tell us about how flight outfitters presence at air venture has evolved..
EAA's The Green Dot - An Aviation Podcast
"air venture" Discussed on EAA's The Green Dot - An Aviation Podcast
"And where air venture where EA were all about strictly full scale flying, and when we introduced these elements to their venture, we get to show people, look, if it, if it flies, if you can fly it and enjoy flying it, we love it. Well, I think we can't forget too that we need to always be focusing on pathways and aviation. How do we make it easy for people to engage? How do we create that initial interest? Whether that is in a youth or in an adult. And I remember that, I mean, the first night that we did the Twilight flight fest. So that was three or four years ago and when we introduced that and we had a couple of top 3D RC guys and young guys down there flying. The reaction of the crowd was amazing because almost all of them had never seen anything like that before. And now I look at what goes on down at twilight flight fest. And it's become a key part of the event. And one that just keeps growing. I know this past year it was amazing to see the crowds that were down there. And it's not just RC. We've got obviously the stole competition going down there. We've got 3D RC going. We've got, we had hang gliding this past year. But the whole idea with that area is to introduce new facets of aviation, maybe things that people haven't looked at before. Introduce that to them. But especially introduce things that folks can look at and go, well, I could do that. I could start to participate that way. And that's really, really important. It was great to see the amount of families and kids down there. On the nights that were doing it, because again, that's what we're trying to do when you look at OshKosh, you look at what air venture is all about so much of it is really about sharing and introducing those exposures to aviation. This is just another way to do it..
Pilot Briefing
"air venture" Discussed on Pilot Briefing
"Thanks so much for joining us. I'm jennifer non in. This is a pilot briefing for the week of august sixteenth. Twenty twenty one bringing you the top five things. You need to know generally aviation news this week. This is ao pa's pilot briefing your general aviation news update brought to you by the aircraft owners and pilots association l. p. president mark baker is calling on ao pa members to contact their representatives in congress and urge them to support the certainty for general aviation pilots. Act of twenty twenty one which clarifies that giving or receiving flight training is not considered carrying a passenger for compensation or higher july twelfth fa directive reverse course on sixty years of precedent that had allowed flight training and experimental limited and primary category aircraft in other words aircraft with special airworthiness certificates without needing a letter of deviation authority or an exemption. The directive came after a non-binding court decision in a case involving a florida company operating limited category warbirds. Wildfires have burned more than two point three million acres in more than fifteen states across the country as of august ninth. According to the national interagency fire center oregon has sixteen large active fires burning more than five hundred eighty thousand acres and one official is encouraging pilots. Who fly in the state to report any fires. They see from the air. A colonel with the benton county oregon sheriff's office air search and rescue department is requesting that pilots who are flying in the state. Look for and report fire starts. Pilots can look for fire starts during takeoff on route and during landing and report the location of fires to air traffic control. The aircraft electronics association reported seven point one percent decline in avionics sales for the first half of twenty twenty one despite a slight increase in april may and june compared to the first quarter of twenty twenty. The half year tally for twenty twenty. One remained north of one billion worldwide. Despite the seven point one percent decline in total sales for the one point one five billion recorded for the first six months of twenty twenty though the association noted that second quarter sales increased two point one percent compared to the same quarter in twenty twenty while aerial performers wowed crowds and inspired future pilots at e as air venture and oshkosh wisconsin government affairs. Team took the opportunity of aviation's largest gathering to advance some of our top advocacy priorities including helping an act. Steffi's project reform the designated pilot examiner management system. Some tangible progress to boost system efficiency may soon become evident online. And a timeline is coming together for several system-wide overhauls recommended the faa by an industry working group. In june the canadian border reopening vaccinated travelers. Might be news. Generally aviation pilots have been eager to hear but there are some hurdles to be aware of before crossing the border as of august ninth fully vaccinated. Us citizens and permanent residents are permitted to enter canada for non essential travel for the first time since the corona virus pandemic prompted the border closure in march of twenty twenty and while the announcement is positive news for most travellers..
Aviation News Talk podcast
"air venture" Discussed on Aviation News Talk podcast
"I max truscott today. We'll talk with catherine kavak narrow about p. i o or pilot induced oscillation. But first we'll talk with rob mark about news from air venture clooney information on a new unleaded fuel. Carman's new smart clyde and the diamond. Da fifty rg last week episode. One ninety-six we talked about mountain flying in later in the week and episode one ninety seven. We talked about how to lean different kinds of aircraft for takeoff when you have high density altitude so if you didn't here either of those episodes please check them out in next week episode one ninety nine. I'll be talking about the absurdly high accident. Rate with instruments certainly approaches and. I'll have some tips for flying circling approaches. You're not gonna wanna miss it episode. So if you haven't done so already click on the subscribe button or the follow button and whatever aperture listening to now that way. Next week's episode will automatically download to your phone hitting the subscriber follow. Button doesn't cost you a dime and it does help move aviation news talk up in the ranking so please do it now now let me tell you a little bit about rob. Mark roe publishes the jet wind blockage at wine dot com and. He's the former senior editor at flying magazine. He's worked as both an air traffic controller and as an airline corporate pilot and cfi. And now here's our conversation with rob mark rob welcome back to the show. It's so great to have you back again. It's nice to be back. Maximum and plays my apologies to the listeners. It's allergy season for me. So if i sound a little froggy. It's not because i've gotten much older. I thought it was because you're still doing. You're walter cronkite imitation here. And that's the way. It is. June the second a nineteen sixty eight. Yeah you know. I i could do that anyway. Listen thanks for inviting me. Always fun to have you here. A you're just back from air venture. I was not there and of course many of our listeners. We're not so. I wanna take this opportunity to talk with you and find out about it. Give us kind of the the big broad thirty thousand foot view of the show before we dive into some of the news. While we're there ever a lot of airplanes Of the first day. On sunday when i arrived dicta pinski told me that the average Arrival number of aircraft is Five roughly five thousand and the last air venture they did in two thousand nineteen. They had thirty five or thirty six hundred on that. I That first sunday this year it was something like fifty five hundred or something And i mean. Every time. I looked up. There were airplanes everywhere so lots of people and i think they were all just really excited to be back and Arrive via the fisk arrival and come by to visit friends and see new stuff yes. I read some statistics. That said i think it was the third largest crowd on record. Something like that. Within five percent of the largest crowd that they've ever had what about new announcements Do seem like there were more those fewer those. What did you think somebody asked me about. The wise our stuff. And i i have to admit i didn't get everywhere on the show because there's an awful lot of walking to do but i didn't really hear any y always always stuff..
Airplane Geeks Podcast
"air venture" Discussed on Airplane Geeks Podcast
"So let's go back to our generalization advancing america door right. It's to your point. We have to showcase we have to communicate what these airports do for communities that these airports are the front door talk community. The pandemic not only allowed that to showcase rights whether it was vaccine distribution p p testing also job creation economic development. So we went out and we did to are. We're continuing this tour. We're going out. We bring local leaders together. We bring the airport together. We showcase what the airport is right. And what it's capable of doing. We try to focus on kind of airports that are you know more p. Maybe communities don't necessarily understand it right or local leadership doesn't understand it. Why do we invest so much in this etcetera etcetera etcetera. So we go out and we want to highlight really what that airports doing for that community. And that's continued. Like i said i visited you know. Dozens and dozens of airports last year. In twenty twenty during the height of the pandemic will continue throughout this year and beyond. I think that's crucial Because it is it sometimes can very easily get a black eye and people don't recognize what they're what it's capable of doing so on that note it sounds like if you're not an airline and you are Not in that supply chain deeply. And you're more on the every other way of flying that's not airline flying and you want to get involved in some way that you could possibly find a committee or something to do with ata. Somebody wants to do that. How do they do that. Go to nafta dot arrow our website. And you can look me up and happy to reach out. And i'd love to to speak with you and hear your inside or hear your challenges in your area. What is coming to oshkosh air venture because you can always oshkosh for something else. I guess what is coming to oshkosh venture do four ata allows us to see our members and get out and see you know we walk over there by the By the static right and the majority of those aircraft were civil servants rights civil like type of aircraft providing a mission. Right whether it's ocular right the is Surgery or the military. I mean it was truly. It was good to see and i think that's good to highlight awesome. Thanks so much ryan Like ryan said you want to get involved with ta to get even more in front of Some of the issues with your local airport or working with businesses and fbi and everything else. That's not airline transport. we love our airline transports. But you know we don't all get to use them all the time. They don't do everything i please. Contact ryan at the national air transportation association at nato a dot e. r. o. Thanks so much ryan for joining us on the airplane. Geeks have a great rest of your air venture thank you. Here's hill and tetra aviation held glazer. The innovation and entrepreneurship correspondent for the airplane geeks. Podcast and again coming to you from air venture in oshkosh twenty twenty one. I am here with tetra. They are a company out of japan. And i'd like to introduce you to soak the ceo. He awry director. And koya mora the one of the engineers. So i can you tell me a little bit about the company. How long has the company been around and really. Why did you start or the company. What's the purpose of being here. we're focusing on network for more people and we started this company since three years ago. Then i i participated in nicole flight prize. Which is sponsored by boeing and we honored for disruptive prize for a hundred thousand dollars I then afterward. We tried to make more people involved into transitioning air so we make a mark five. That's another tolls To present this ever venture then Try to make people transported in hundred miles away for every people living in urban or rural anywhere and today any places so for those of you who are not gonna go. Look at the show notes or pictures. What we're looking at here is clearly. What is a an e v. tall type aircraft with thirty two rotors on four pylons of eight each the pylons are attached to what appear to be wings because they're air-foils with flaps or ailerons and tricycle landing gear and a pusher prop as well so this is clearly something meant to fly in short spaces land and take off without a lot of runway. And but this prototype obviously only has one person capable in it. If they were to be any people at all but the idea's.
Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
"air venture" Discussed on Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
"What today is the fortieth anniversary of The fortieth anniversary. I was barely born forty years ago. What what's what's the fortieth anniversary porn forty years. The first video was played by mtv. Oh i did hear that. That's right yeah holy crap. That was forty years ago. I kind of vague. They're getting as i kind of remember that that's disturbing. Yes it's very disturbing. Yeah i. It's probably because i saw recordings of it. Although maybe i saw it in person because i remember being excited about the idea of mtv They had the whole thing with the the moon-walker right the right. That was the logo. That was the image early on the devolve. Mtv flag in exactly. Yeah so okay well. Yeah i don't know how to segue from that to this. There's no segue. I just wanted to make sure we had that on record. Okay well we saw that. We all felt as old as i do. Okay well i'm not sure if we can all feel quite as old as you do but anyways welcome folks to don't make me come up there. I you know what. I'm not afraid of you anymore. I just i'm not cow. Welcome folks to the cap daily episode. Ten thirty three foxtrot from air venture. Oshkosh twenty twenty one sort of from a jack hodgson and come to you this morning from somewhere between oshkosh and home undisclosed location kind of thing and Before really talking to my friends. I wanna make one quick note here before i start getting trying to head off some of the emails. So is you got daily episode foxtrot. When this one. I is posted. You kept daily. Echo will be missing from the sequence. So don't email. I know it's not there We had a little snafu in the technical who all doing in the production of echo and And it will be along on. There's nothing timely in lewd. And you're not going to be missing out on. I did tease it in the previous daily. And i mentioned the fact that so jim jim goldman One of the bad boys actually hosted that that episode and he had a and again i continued to make finger quotes a special guest on that episode And it's a fun episode. You should definitely goes into it on. The time comes but don't feel too stressed out about. Oh my gosh who's special guest It's a think having said that he don't make much sense after you hear if fang echoes. I'm pretty sure we're going to be able to solve the problem with echo and and that'll that'll be that but this is foxtrot and because it's the final daily episode of twenty one I wanted to get my absent. Dear friends online to talk a little bit about The week that i just spent and what what it was like from surveys. You heard jeb hijab. How're you doing this. I'm good dave out there too. Good morning david. Good morning jack. Joke interesting that we're doing this last daily of air venture twenty twenty one on the last day of air mentioned on the twenty one on the last day it was just You know this is just about you know what well we're recording this at eleven am eastern which coincidentally is exactly the time that we usually do the the episode from the from the announcer. Stand on which we were unable to do this year. So so i guess there's some there's some sim symmetry some something there. Anyways farren deputies serendipity that consistency yeah so i resisted the impulse at least to give you guys too much grief over the week about the fact that you weren't there because i know you were both really bummed out by personal circumstances making it impossible and But you know. I i'm just wondering what was it like to watch air venture twenty one in all its glory from afar painful. Yeah i bet. I bet i mean Through in oshkosh and we weren't there. Yeah it was interesting and certainly grateful for all of the well. The official coverage all of the unofficial coverage tweets and and blog posts and and things like that uh from listeners and non listeners. Anybody basically who is there that only scratches the surface for us. It's it's frustrating in a way. Sometimes you might be better off without seeing some of that but on the whole it certainly applause. Yeah i i can only I can i can imagine just barely never completely missed an oshkosh since i started years and years ago but I've been years when i wasn't able to be the whole week. And i know that even even after having been there for a while having to enjoy it from afar is really arc heartbreaking off. That's right where it's not quite that. Dire but heartbreaking is just. It's frustrating with something everyone could relate to. Yeah it's seem complete. Yeah yeah so it was a very weird oshkosh for me anyways it was emotionally or i don't know what it was all over the place. it was everybody i talked to. I had this feeling and everyone. I spoke to think i think this is the first thing i said when when you ask them how does it feel to be back or how you asking that kind of a question How does it feel they all say it's just great to be back. It's great to be back on the grounds. It's great to see our friends again. It's great to be back. Which i think is a reflection of a missing air venture last year and be just our lives over the last year. It's great to be back on. If we are which is a whole other subject own other topic. Yeah right but It was a weird so it was. It was a great oshkosh intr. I had a great time. I'm had no regrets having chosen to go It was terrific to meet up. All my friends both can't bacon friends and other friends around the grounds And to see some airplanes and and you know kind of do the oshkosh thing at the same time there was this ever present overlay of of kovic quite frankly You know and it is a lot of times you were able to kind of forget that that was a reality. And then every now and then a number people told me the same experience every non then you sorta suddenly look up and you go wait a minute. I need to be a little more careful than that. I need to be careful about this. I And it was weird It was some but very little mask wearing going on around the grounds. I confess i was one of the ones not wearing a mask for the most part i stayed mostly outdoors for the whole week. I didn't go inside very often And the couple of times. I went inside. I wanted to go through the exhibit hangers and i. I thought i'll be okay. I can go through the hanger and about thirty seconds after stepping into the exhibit hangers. I started to feel uncomfortable. It was kind of like hunched shoulders. And of look around trying. Shallow breathing foolishness right and And so i ended up just kind of racing through the exhibit hangers in order to kind of get a quick look and then get out and i did not step foot inside any of the exhibit. Pavilions if you will. So that's why you didn't price in oil for me..
Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
"air venture" Discussed on Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
"Four of air venture oshkosh twenty twenty one. And i'm jack hodgson with today's uncontrolled airspace. You daily this is ten. Thirty three duo. So let's see what's going on oil so we've had some. We had a lot of excitement since the last time i talked to Let's see now previously on uncontrolled controllers base When i recorded that last episode we were under a warning for a big thunderstorm and they were saying it was going to be a big deal but we were looking around going. Why don't see anything and so we were kind of cautiously skeptical. I guess Slowly making preparations but waiting and seeing was the evening progressed. It definitely got more and more serious. The radar blew up and it became a much larger storm on radar. D- a lot more bright colors and so we started taking much more seriously started really battened down the hatches A late in the evening around. I dunno must've been about nine pm. Ya enhanced the whole situation by announcing that they were opening up the museum as a shelter for people who wanted to get out of the campsite particularly the ten people and so they actually brought the shuttle buses back out and started collecting people from the From camp schoeller and taking them over to the museum. Who's a music not amusing entertaining. Pictures out there of people in the museum sitting on the floor gathered around all the exhibits in the museum. so The radar showed the storm getting closer and closer and then around ten thirty quarter to eleven. It it really arrived And fortunately it did not turn out to be as destructive a storm as they had forecast at least not destructive at the at the air venture grounds We did hear stories of Places in the in the area particularly rippin experienced a lot of damage From this particular storm. So we're lucky that it didn't veer a few degrees to one side or could've come right down on us but we got Was some heavy rain. And some moderately heavy wins nothing really destructive. A few tens. I saw got blown around. But i still haven't heard any reports of airplanes being damaged. Although a lot of airplanes. This is kind of interesting. The warnings were so dire that a lot of people left during the afternoon and so The population was already dead on somewhat. Anyways the storm arrived. And here's the part. That i think is pretty notable and that is that i've been going oshkosh for a long time. This was one of the two or three most spectacular lightning shows. I've ever seen. I.
Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
"air venture" Discussed on Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
"Twenty. Twenty one and this is done controlled airspace. You cap daily ten thirty three charlie. And i'm jack hodgson coming from the grounds of the air venture oshkosh twenty twenty one show and give you an update on things that have been going on today. It's an interesting evening here. At air venture. We are currently under a big warning for A fairly severe thunderstorm. That's supposed to come through this evening and It's kind of an interesting situation because It's it's like after eight right now It was supposed to have started raining around six. Where the early forecasts and it still seems perfectly fine here so we're all wondering what's really going on here and if this forecast is real or not the the radar doesn't look all that threatening the there is a line of storms coming. But they're not they don't look too dramatic And there's some ways off on the as we all know these things can change so we'll see what happens later on this evening Those of you listening to this already know what happened. So You know from jack in the past here we go anyways Another fun day at air venture twenty twenty one I started the day off this morning. I went out to The ultralight area to watch the some airplanes fly and also to get breakfast at the tall pines cafe which is a very very cool little Breakfast operation out there they do Really nice pancakes and eggs and sausages. And i guess you can ultimately get biscuits and gravy and and is it just kind of it's out very broad menu but it's a nice little breakfast menu and You invariably meet someone fun while you're sitting out there on one of the picnic tables having your pancakes and coffee. So i was out there this morning and That was really enjoy that i it was a nice walk down there to the weather. This this morning was pretty nice So it was a nice walk out there Through the The anti classic. I guess they call it vintage now. areas parking lot of fun airplanes out there in many ways. Those are my kinds of airplanes so That was a fun. Walk the While i was out there the now. I'm going to say the powered parachutes were flying. But i i that there's a distinction there that i'm not real familiar with debut. Correct me later on Whether these were powered parachutes or now. I'm blanking on what the alternative is. But there's another kind of aircraft very similar to that. The ones i was watching the ones where you wear the engine backpack on your back The propellers enclosed in some sort of cage and then you have Lines that go out to a unstructured wing that to looks like a parachute. But it's not like well. Parachutes aren't around these days. But it's not even you know kinda rebelo wing shaped it's very narrow so i don't know what those were but they were fun and they were flying and doing big circles out over the cornfields and then coming back and doing low passes I they pointed out to the announcers pointed out something that i hadn't been aware of that hadn't become conscious open. I thought about it. Oh yeah that is different. When the altar lights fly on they go around. And i'll do one or two circles in the land and taxi back and then if they're so inclined take off again but the And i'm not sure sounds like maybe even that's a requirement they have to touchdown every every now and then or something like that but the powered parachutes because these guys are ruined and women are walking when they're on the ground they don't apparently require them to actually land and walk back and take off again so they're allowed more to do fly buys them and low passes than than apparently the rules are are less restrictive. Or you know whatever it's interesting though We've blather about this on the podcast in the past the ultralight area which is now called the fun fly zone but it will always be the alpha later is is one of the most fun areas of the whole flying If only because they get to fly All week long in the mornings and in the afternoons and so you can go up there and see some really interesting airplanes Actually flying taking off and landing on a grass strip right in front of you. So that's pretty cool. What else happened. Today I spent a lot of time just wandering around Seeing some of the things. I've been going into the exhibit hangers. You know on a covert note. I've been a little bit more Uncomfortable in the exhibit hangers. Than i expected to be although i'm i'm i'm very very confident and comfortable with my vaccination And i just felt odd to be in these exhibit hangers so close to other people And so i made my trips into the exhibit hangers. Very very brief. I of just kind of zoomed through and and was trying to you know kinda breathe. Shallow lee and of course. None of these things really help you. I really should've put on a mask. and I but i would have been like one of two people in the entire hanger wearing a mask which felt odd. And that's a bad excuse for not wearing a mask but they go But i i did kind of try and kind of make my obligatory visit to the exhibit hangers And and you know so we see up there. Nothing special. That really popped out at me. Maybe because i raised through it one exhibit that i did go to take a look at that i had been looking for jobs. As you know from the podcast. I'm a big believer in electric power for all things And although it's awkward and hard to do in an airplane They are making strides in. One of the programs is doing some interesting. Things is an organization called by aerospace b. y. it's a person's name and I've been watching them from afar for a few years. Now and i've they may have been exhibitors or presenters here in the past but they really had a very distinct booth. I noticed this time. And so i was looking forward to go to see the see the booth to see what they're up to I arrived at their booth This afternoon to take a look and and quite frankly a little disappointed. Not the program still seems very interesting So they they. This is in the outdoor exhibits area near the exhibit hangers. and they they. They didn't have an outdoor.
Airplane Geeks Podcast
EAA AirVenture Oshkosh 2021
"My name's Tim it's my fifth oshkosh air venture Live near vancouver in canada and happy to be here. How this before. We continue I'll just mention that. Because of travel restrictions there are far fewer international visitors here to to air venture But but you found a way to smuggle yourself out of canada. I guess and You flew down correct. I did yep That's the one way we can cross by land at this point but through airplanes luckily we can make it here The other restrictions Cova test before we crossed the border to allow to be able to get onto the flight. And then i'll have to do the same on the return on the cobra test in order to return to canada all right. Hey it's Logan lynch Second time come to air venture Came in nineteen and is great excited to be here again. It's probably another record breaking ground this year. It seems like so Flew in from north dakota yesterday so glad to be here. North dakota put the land of the severe winter I'd say severe everything we get the extremes on both ends. We cost hunter three hundred and three up there. The other day we We'll get down to negative fifty in the winter. So it's extremes. Yeah crazy crazy also with us. Hello everybody. this is david. Abby from new york love the airplane geeks for on a right now. Just one of my first podcast. I've ever listened to and got me involved in aviation so it's great to see again at his first oshkosh and i flew in yesterday commercial from from new york via denver because of the I guess crazy Domestic airline operations lately but it went smoothly. No problem so glad to be here and just great to be among the aviation friends
Airplane Geeks Podcast
"air venture" Discussed on Airplane Geeks Podcast
"You're always so busy doing things. So we we drag you around when everybody's departing. It's the end of this day. But what a beautiful day. Thank you so much putting it together for us well. Bunk chased is really been heartbeat of this so I gave him a lot of him and his wife are great. Assets have been here for a long time been doing it for like over twenty years and so without his guidance and help. None of this would really happen. So it and it's a group effort so everybody's been really great in Everybody has a great time and As you can see how fast fastest is gonna coming down. It went up fast so It's just a great day and every the community came into community was wonderful People coming in just amazed at ziva near because a lot of new people into community because they moved here recently because cove and so far so yeah. It's been a wonderful day. And i really appreciate the spread family for having us here at week and spend a godsend to us and we love it. The the use of the characterization community means a lot today. I was with two people who are not really aviation people at all and they ask lots of questions about the plane's things of course that you know almost everybody else already knows But it was all new to them but the comment that i heard from both of them independently timing again was their amazement at the feeling of community that they could feel they could just sense that here were a bunch of people and they all loved the same the same thing in pulling together working together and acting as a community it was. It was really obvious to them. And it was interesting to hear that that comment and one of the things that we've always said and it's very cliche now. You've heard it before the first time you ever go to an air show you go there for the planes and the next time you go you go for the people well. This isn't an air show. It's a flying and you're always come. It's great to see the planes but you're always coming for the people absolutely thanks again. Well thank you for coming. I'm glad you here okay. Thank you for listening to the airplane. Geeks podcast we hope you enjoyed this episode and maybe got a little taste for how interesting and informative a flying can be. I think it's fascinating. How both similar and dissimilar aviation events can be we have events like. Ea air venture oshkosh in the sun and fund aerospace expo airshows in museum events. Small fly ins organization chapter events on and on each represent a different experience but they all have something in common and that's community people with shared interests who gathered together and enjoy what they have in common. It's really remarkable so go find an aviation event or to inconsiderate..
EAA's The Green Dot - An Aviation Podcast
"air venture" Discussed on EAA's The Green Dot - An Aviation Podcast
"Even if you stay on the flight line and don't divert off to the side when you get to the the top of the north forty just at the end of ultralights. There's a little bit of a rise in. There's just you can see there's another of airplanes out ahead of you and it. It hits home be just you. Can't you can't conceive of how big and how rich this event really is. But that's always a an eye opening moment because there's a there's a brief stretch fifty feet cruising along us Whitman road where feels like okay. Ultralights vintage and then into ultralights. This is kind of the end of it and then oh wait no. There's another there's another. What thousand two thousand airplanes. Whatever that we get in the south forty and so many just just great people. Great i in a very different vibe from north forty are to describe but it's a. It's a different vibe. Because it's different neighborhood. It's a great sign of how the event is growing too. I mean the even. Even since i've been here. The south forty has really expanded in terms of the infrastructure that we have there and It's regular use because we we routinely fill it now with the with the number of aircraft coming in and we're continuing to expand the number of parking areas with a goal to to not have to turn away anybody who wants to fly in and that's a it's an admirable goal and then and then having so many airplanes that we've got to figure out ways to expand like that is is a fascinating problem that we're fortunate to have. That's that's for sure. Now there is I said contiguous neighborhoods So i i guess maybe this next thing is like the hawaii of of the venture grounds So you get on a bus and go about ten minutes south and then you end up at You know if the if our museum is kind of a hidden hidden gem of the venture grounds. One that's too easy to miss. The seaplane base is the thing that is way too easy to miss. But once you've been once you'll never miss it again. Yeah and again. you know. it's it's everything is is so vast at air venture. i mean. It's the sea plane. Base alone would be an amazing fly in if that's all it was but it's but it's part of air venture of course and and that's where you know people will fly into flying to lakewood bego and they'll they'll pull right into the little. It's a little lagoon there. And more up their their aircraft and then we have shuttle boats will bring them bring them to shore and every once in a while we get something really noteworthy. They're like the martin. Mars will more right nearby. Which is a neighborhood. All to itself But yeah it's it's it's kind of. Has this summer camp vibe to it. and quiet it in the same way that the that the ultra light strip very contemporary part of the grounds. I think see point basis to absolutely you're right there on the water it's cooler. It's lush vegetation almost forget. You're in wisconsin. Like when you're over there you almost feel like you're could be anywhere on somewhere really wild or tropical or so i mean. It's a really to wisconsin chris. Yeah well yeah. I know..
WTMJ 620
"air venture" Discussed on WTMJ 620
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Airplane Geeks Podcast
We Finally Know Exactly How Bad The Pandemic Has Been for Airline Pilots
"We see in plane and pilot magazine. We finally know exactly how bad the pandemic has been for. Airline pilots and the numbers here are pretty staggering and eliminating max indeed. I was really quite stunned to take a look and see. Just how bad things are. I mean we all know that the airlines have been hit disproportionately hard here during the pandemic that know some pilots have been out of work. This was a survey done by goose. Which is a pilot. Recruitment firm not for birds but for a and they found that nearly half of all pilots worldwide. Either looking for work or on furlough which was shocking to me. They said that thirty percent of the people surveyed were out of work and looking and other seventeen percents that they were furloughed awaiting further news and additional. Six percents said they were still employed with their airline. But we're doing non-flying works pretty stunning. Half half the pilots Basically out of work or looking for work in this comes from a survey of two thousand five hundred ninety eight pilots. This survey was open for four weeks just to kind of set. The timeframe in it closed october thirtieth twenty twenty and it was anonymous survey thirty questions and the survey was designed for pilots of all ranks. First officers second officers and cadets in some of the data in this is just really really fascinating and we'll have a link to the survey report which was done in conjunction with flake global. And a you just peruse some of this and find some really really interesting interesting things but By way of demographics of those almost twenty six hundred pilots forty-three percent of the respondents were in europe. Nineteen percent from the middle east and africa eighteen from asia pacific Twelve percent from north. America six percent from south america and two percent from china. So it's pretty Pretty global in the survey touches on things like pilot retention pilot job security employee engagement even Stress mental health wellbeing things like that so Some really really interesting statistics Couple of the ones that i like. Maybe if you guys saw some things that piqued your interest but one of the questions was when do you think aviation will make a full recovery to pre covid levels and not. Surprisingly only ten percent said up to one year the biggest spike was up to two years. Thirty four percent of the pilots thought up to two years but twenty eight percent up to three years and longer than that twelve percent four years. Ten percent five years and six percent said they thought it would never never be the same So that's the pilot's perspective. No one was. Do you think your mental health has been affected by the pandemic and here there is a direct correlation between the age of the pilot and the pursuit pilots that group in In how many of them thought that their mental health had been a acted for those pilots. Fifty five to sixty four years old thirty. Two percent thought their mental health had been affected for pilots forty five to fifty four years old but younger thirty six percent when we go down to thirty five to forty four year olds forty four percent of them thought. Their mental health has affected in the twenty five to thirty four year old group forty-nine percent and pilots under twenty four years old fifty eight percent of them thought their mental health had been affected by the pandemic so. I thought that was a really interesting result. I wasn't totally surprised by the The differences once. You mentioned the difference. I thought okay but it's the younger folks are having a tougher time. Think about someone who's twenty four years old this may be the first In a bad thing that's happened to them in their in their career folks are in their mid fifty s have probably gone through multiple things in the past and probably a better able to to ride through a downturn whereas you know young folks just not have that cushion of You know savings built up to right through. Its doesn't surprise me but still it's a large large number folks nearly six percent under a twenty-four saying mental health. Been impacted the the demographics of the respondents in terms of gender. Was you know the numbers are kind like the same numbers we've seen for a long time. Almost all male four percent female in one percent preferred not to say. I'm not sure why they would prefer not to say in. An anonymous survey but four percent identified themselves as female Which really kind of hope that that number would be coming up. Ron wouldn't when you're looking at programs With youth today. do you see more. young girls. Becoming interested involve is that number higher than four percent. I hope well Here were making a concerted effort to make sure it's higher than four percent Right now we're preparing for Air venture and we've got A program within the air venture program called girl venture We've also got One for adults named Women's sore And between those two we really want to invite women to get more involved and engaged in aviation and so We see a higher than i would say. Four percent level here
Aviation News Talk podcast
Building successful lives, one plane at a time with TeenFlight,
"Successful lives one plane at a time at the as air venture in oshkosh a group of oregon teenagers stand beside an rv. Twelve light sport aircraft answering questions. They have spent eighteen months building the plane on display and they are eager to put their expertise on display as well. The adults who quiz them are rightly impressed. The students are with teen flight. The high school arm of airway science for kids or ask which serves students in and around portland oregon team. Flight is the brainchild of erin. Figura ted miller and van's aircraft founder. Richard van grunsven. Who wanted to honor the memory of ask. Founder bob strickland by creating a program for high school students team flight. Young people are given an opportunity to build an aircraft that they will eventually be able to fly. The student built aircraft has showcased at oshkosh and then sold to fund the next build session. Van grunsven noted that this is the kind of program he would have loved as a young man for the first build. Classy offered space in his hangar at the aurora airport and agreed to oversee construction of one of his company's own kit planes the rv twelve quote. The twelve is a well-developed kit plane. He said we were confident. That with the help of adult mentors with the right group of motivated kids. They could get the job done. And the sex. A little. Bit about eric krause. Who was a high school junior when he joined the inaugural teen flight class in two thousand nine. He said whenever. I tell people in school about the program they'd say oh you're building an rc. Plane krause said nobody ever believed we were building actual aircrash if the naysayers could have seen the students mechanical skills on day one their skepticism would have been justified said krause. Some kids didn't know which side of a screwdriver to hold a few years. After graduation cross took his team flight build plan to interview and discuss the process of building an aircraft as a teenager the interviewers impressed and he landed the job. he's now a manager advanced aircraft and he believes the program taught him not only general mechanical skills but leadership skills as well the program's goal is not produce the next generation of aviators or aviation engineers students pursue those goals and ask provides as much support to them as it can including scholarships to pursue flight. Training figure keeps a broader goal in mind when thinking about the program's impact quote. Most of the kids that we work with go on and do interesting things and do creative things so they use the skills they learned in teen flight. He said we like to say that. We're not really teaching teenagers. How to build airplanes. Were teaching them how to have a fulfilling life with good interesting careers and to be excited about it. Van grunsven echoed that sentiment. We have found that the program can be most helpful for kids who maybe don't fit in on other things and maybe aren't doing well in school but when they're able to work with airplanes they get excited. He said we've had parents tell. Their children's grades went up after they went into the program. They work harder and they do better great story and i wish there were more programs like this around the united states and around the world
Uncontrolled Airspace: General Aviation Podcast
Color-coded Runways
"Let me tell you that this is borderline genius. If you ask me, this is just borderline genius all right? Let's color code the runways. I like that it's it's. KINDA UNIQUE DEER VALLEY Because they have a lot of rocks it wouldn't work a lot of other locales OKO although. Fake being what it is, we would probably discover that. Harrison Ford is colorblind but. That was Hodgson agent. Now is just an easy Joko. It's too easy. Sorry about that Harrison. I know he's a listener and It's kind of a clever idea. So this is we found this from a listener I think he's a listener, but a tweet twitter guy Ryan Ewing Nine high-ranking guy. What did I say? You Twitter Guy Twitter? Guy Yeah I. Don't know what the on twitter at twitter guy. We're all twitter guys in this day and age. He tweeted he tweeted. The Phoenix area is one of the most popular regions for flight training as such mistakes do happen. Runway landings have occurred Deer Valley airport. He writes owned by the city of Phoenix Arizona has a unique solution to prevent this different colored rocks surrounding each runway. So basically the what what I would think of as being the grass around the runway apparently is gravel. Zona 'cause grasping grow real quickly. You said wrong way. That's not correct. Wrong runway wrong runway landings. Oh! If I said runway. That was a mistake. You're absolutely right. That was Corrigan Corcoran. Different meaning different meaning. ANYWAYS so they've done apparently have done it with colored gravel. The terrain surrounding the runway and taxiways has a distinct color to it and but I want to know whether ATC, do they say you know land on Purple? Runway, purple instead of instead of landing on on the green dot at Oshkosh. Read read one roster. I can't say one way. Runway Yeah Right. Valley. QUIT GLENN! Wait. Never. Only one drawback or Weakness in it. Being told to land on the color runway doesn't tell you which way on the colored runway will now. That's true. True, but you they could say. Let's see what are. Let's just assume that these are two seven and nine there probably not exactly that. Zuma would picture. It should cut down on the confusion on. is at this piece. Is Strip payment or that? Oh! This is the one surrounded by green now which way on that runway? It's seventy five. Seventy five, so they'll say land on runway to five purple or I don't. Know they'll say land on runway to five left the purple one, which happens to be perfect. Yeah, that'd be an interesting question, Ryan, if you're a listener Give us anything in the in the in the follow up in the responses here, let's see. Someone else made my hair. Practice four joke, but there's a lot of colorblind jokes. CH-. Help for blind pilots. That's that's. This is also true. Well. That's yeah I know. Are Up sorry. From flight DECK IS HE THERE'S A. Problem, with death pilots, because they just don't listen. Higgin hi. Let's just discard this recording is. Really really know all right so. colorizing runways. I I hadn't thought of that I hadn't thought about the. Air! Venture colored dots, thing which apparently is wildly effective. I've haven't landed on those runways during those type. Jeb. You have obviously. Is it I. Don't know what's your reaction to that system as a pilot who's used operated on and off it? It works I mean. A IT works well I'll be seems to work well. I haven't landed on the dots that often. Over the years generally I will get in before the show opens, and although the dots are there, I'm I'm. ABC is not asking me to land on them. generally there's been a few years at that's been. Landed on the DOTS, but they're easy to spot and and. My only concern. In the past has been when landing on the first dot of the runway the one I come to. Its. Knowing, that there's a bunch of traffic and knowing that the runway is constantly in use. My only concern is getting run over from behind
EAA's The Green Dot - An Aviation Podcast
Vic Syracuse Homebuilt Aircraft Council Chairman on His Building History
"So how'd you How did you first get involved with With ea where you involve with a chapter when you were younger where that come from. No I if I think back to my first touch on was I. I started building an RV for that was something I always wanted to do. Since I was a kid and I saw. I probably a teeny two or something. On the cover of a mechanics illustrated you can build bigger airplanes. And so I think it was twenty five. I started building rb. Four and Went and visited the local chapter. It was quite a bit different back then. Quite honestly it wasn't quite as welcoming to youth. It was more of an older gentleman's club and they seem to want to sit around and talk more than they did want to build and I wanted to build so one or two visits. I just stayed at home and spent that time building as opposed to a bill chapters. And I I'm at Air Venture was One Thousand Nine hundred ninety one when I came here after I'd already started building. The RB foreign got my first ride with Dick Van. Brunson in the four wow. That's that's a great interaction. What was it led you to the RV to begin with the first of many RV's actually you'll get a kick out of this so like every person trying to build their first airplane. You're on a budget and trying to figure things out and so I'm trying to look at some of the cheaper. Airplanes were to build and The one that was out there at the time I think was a monet model and I realized I didn't have welding skills so next thing I know we're sitting at the dinner table. One night and private pilot magazine came and there was an RV. Four on the cover doing a loop. And I made a comment at dinner to my wife that I really liked to build an airplane someday and her words were well. It'd be nice if you quit talking about it. So that's all I needed to hear. Order was in the mail the next day I love that woman to. That's that is terrific just out of curiosity the RV for you. GotTa ride in from from Dick. Was that the prototype. Yes it's the one in the museum right now. Yes that was the first survey you've ever had a ride and was the one that sets the display so you do have to point out how old I am music. There's a lot of airplanes are now in in thanks. I'm well Oh my goodness so How long did it take you to build that first? Rv for? And what was that experience? Like so I kind of didn't know what I was doing. I'd been building. He's gets for a good part of my life. You start on page one page ten. You've got something and Building like radios teams up to color. Tv's okay did you ever built the weather station the beneath get weather station. I didn't do that. Dad and I did that together. Only father something projects like that hands on that we did. That was a lot of fun. Yeah I missiles heath kit days me to have my silla scope and once in a while but that's just when you look like a bond villain or something so Well BACK TO VIG. You asked me about trying to remember the question. Sorry the question is what was the how long it took out the RV here. I am this twenty five year old kid and again it was an old guys club and I I've always been one. Once you start you keep going and you get it done and So I kept calling pestering fan. Hey Winston xe kit coming so I started out as serial number. Two thirty nine ended up being the twelfth. One finished vowed I think it was about twenty two months later. Twenty four months later maybe was the first RV for Sun and fun and the first one east of the Mississippi rivers a lot of fun. What do you remember about that? First Flight? The first airplane you built. It was reminds me of here a little bit in that. It was on a New Year's Eve in Cleveland. Ohio and it was minus ten degrees. So we all know what kind of performance you are visa but when you're in an RV four with only. I think I had ten gallons of fuel in it and it was minus ten. You can imagine how that thing Klein about ten thousand minutes. You're not supposed to need oxygen during phase one remember very hilarious so we have a VHS tape. Tom You probably look that up in the library but as a kid okay. So it's funny here. It is it's minus ten degrees outside and I land in the family's all around and I'm I'm I'm on cloud nine. I'm so excited and everything and in video you can see everybody else. Kind of standing around freezing for my wife finding says getting we go inside Your Square John. Ten feet tall Having just mastered this role as test pilot. What did you fly to get ready to to get comfortable in the RV farm you had the right and the other RV but did you. Was there. Another airplane you flew to get deal skills Sharp and all that sort of thing was a lot of ratings at that time including I was doing a tail wheel instruction outer let As a good practice there was a friend on the field and he had a decathlon so that very morning I went up I with him and did three takeoff and landings just to make cert- draining back then right which is something. We're trying to change quite a bit today and no transition team and NO SECOND PILOT ADDITIONAL PILOT PROGRAM. No Load No. Ea Flight Test Manual. But but they had electricity and things. Tom I mean it wasn't it wasn't that long ago is our guest. Okay civic after the after the four. What did you go onto to build? So when I had the four for probably I think three years or so and Basically had a four place family so it got to be not a whole lot of fun having this to place airplane and about that time. Prescott pusher came into being and they came to us with a lot of splash and unfortunately I got caught up in that real splash and again I was the first one to actually finish the Prescott pusher and did manage to fly. Here Dash Gosh The first year we finished it but You know a number. A number of other people behind me Came to demise in that aircraft it was not represented very well and so we realized at that time the best thing to do for four place airplane was probably a rant or have partners and So built another place airplane Kit Fox and Most of the time you're flying by yourself anyway or with one other family member and then we We had partners in one. Eighty two. And then bonanza so that filled the four-place niece for awhile until I was could convince Dick van grunts into doing RV ten which took about ten to twelve years and so you're saying that That the RV ten exists is to shut you up. We'll tell you this alone. I came to air venture. I think it was nineteen ninety-six. After pestering van every year for however many years my wife and I were probably twenty feet from his booth and he sees us coming up and he points right at us and says all right. I'm going to do one. Excellent and you also I mean obviously in addition to the aircraft. A you've built you've you've test flown. Many aircraft done pre buys them in the aircraft also. Da are as well does this represent a free FAA signing off aircraft But one in particular that of that we all have some connection with is the one week wonder the RV twelve iso we built an adventure In in two thousand eighteen. You did the first flight on that I did. That was fun so I'm always have an emotional connection to that aircraft. Matter of fact at lunch I was just explaining that to a couple of your new hires. Here go take me take advantage of flying club you have here and then rb twelve with special. I was just flying in on Sunday. Good for you good for you. John Egan and I you're part of the the West Coast tour of the aircraft couple months ago so we got the flight from From Phoenix All the way back to Oshkosh need. That's right you picked up. After David and Serena dropped it off so that was that was terrific thing getting that airplane out there and show you off two chapters and that was literally the Monday after adventure right. It was correct. It was done on Sunday. Flown on Monday. Yes yes and now we flew Monday. Evening is a postcard
EAA's The Green Dot - An Aviation Podcast
3 Aviator Guests Who Flew The F117
"Today we have not one two three we Aviators who flew the F.. One seventeen so with us today. We have colonel at Whitley. We have colonel. Ralph Goetchel and colonel. Ganja Gentlemen thank all of you for being here. We also have their wives with us here. They were able to join us so Just want to thank the six of you for making the trip up to to Oshkosh Wisconsin. Shearson time on this pleasure absolutely so and also they'll be joining us tonight for. EA Speaker series which For those are you listening. It's too late for you but make sure you missed a good one guy you know especially that one part but do check our local to the oshkosh area. Ever want to make a trip sometime. When it's not air venture be sure to check our social media on our website and our online newsletter for for future dates for this for the series so with that of course I guess I'll I'll kick it over to you to kind of ask what we usually ask for the introductory questions for our I guess one of my favorite questions ask because everybody has a story What I made you WanNa fly well for me? As a child growing up I was the child of a World War Two veteran. My Dad worked for a company in which there was is a retired Military Aviator who was the president and CEO of textile the organization being from the South and he was a big collector of military aircraft. And he he shared this collection with the people who work for his organization and so we as kids. We just climb all over a variety of military aircraft and been a little bit older than these other guys I Remember Korea Had Our tendency to visit the local airport just watching it but what the moment that really struck me was when I had my first Ryder t thirty. The three in the backseat. My time is that My choices were go through. ROTC in college or not go to college and be a grunt in the United States are going to be at Phnom and frankly when I went to field training between my sophomore junior year and had that first orientated applied on ever get get visit. Myrtle Beach Airforce Base took off on their forget we broke ground on a cloudy sky and that contrast to the ocean and the white sand. And I said Gosh. Gosh this is what I WANNA do. That was that moment that really struck out for me and I had a great again in front seat and that was that was a magic moment for me. That's awesome How about you Colonel Jill? We're like to point to say that my father who was in the military inspired mutation Taeb restrained to be AAA battery commander so that didn't feel bad but my mother was a navy wave during World War Two and it was a linked trainer operator and she brought with her the navy how to fly manuals and all the things that I just devoured in junior high and high school. I lived on a ranch in central Florida that was in the running line for the navy. Pine Castle air to ground range or GonNa rage and so I could be down there shoveling horse apples or whatever it is that at a ranch boy does it'd be threes and fours and four eight. Five eight vigilantes roaring overhead on looking up and Goya looks like a lot more fun than down here and I did a little investigation allegation and found out that the navy guys running aircraft carrier. And there's no women on carrier knows no beer on the carrier and that that launched launched me on a on a career near fourth. Although my dad wasn't an aviator was on the Coast Guard World War Two timeframe when I was young very young he took me to an EA gathering back when it was in Rockford. And I got my first flight in a gypsy. Moth Open Air. I don't remember eight or nine years old in it's kind of set a spark. My father was always aviation suzy's and then as I was getting into high school I just thought the flight fighters be like the greatest job in the world early in high school. Had I had a cousin that went to the Air Force Academy and I got to thinking I was also the oldest of seven children in the finances of going to college made made a huge difference if the government was sending me to college and I got a chance to be a pilot. Boy that'd be cool owes able to get into the Air Force Academy train their want to go to pilot training and it was just kind of always been my goal to head in that direction. I didn't necessarily have specific specific path but worked out and there. We have how that's awesome. That's really cool. You have an EA if you're early flight and that's pretty wild. It's grown a bit Rockford. We noticed it so we just heard your first experience in an airplane What about the what? What did you was the first plane? Overflowing well following pilot training. No now you just mean like as a kid but as I said in the t thirty three that's an awesome. I fly has an awesome and of course it there in that timeframe There was a program in. ROTC for juniors and sophomores to Get their pilot. License called the flight instruction program and I went through that and of course into the air force and on the pilot training but my first airplane eh operation and was the F. One hundred which kind of an interesting about that as a kid growing up I mentioned that my first flight and the t thirty three was There'll beach airforce. Base happened to be two three fifty four th wing air flying f one hundred's so as a kid. I got a lot of Hans and I never thought that I'd be one of those guys flying the F. One hundred it's an amazing airplane. Yes it is about you. My first light was in a was in a Tri Pacer and my I had a I had a friend in elementary school was interested in aviation as well and my brother and we saved our money and we parents take us out your fort and got a little introductory flight And the next one after that was on my way to the Air Force Academy Outta me. My Kademi lays officer now. This central Florida had a steer men and he put me up in the German to go flying and that open cockpit Pitt. Experience was quite a thrill that is pretty cool at the step up from a Tri Pacer. Quite a bit so we'll talk a little bit about how you guys transitioned into the F. One seventeen program And currently I guess we should start with you since you you were there for pretty early on to keep household about that yes and the late nineteen eighties. I received my backup of it in late late. Nineteen Eighty I was just finishing the eight and fighter weapons school and being reassigned their analysis to be the assistant operations officer in that unit. Something I'd really want to do for some time really looking forward to it but no sooner had I arrived in the squadron and I got a phone phone call from the gentleman I had never met before. who asked me if he could meet me a specific building a specific perfect room at a specific time in several weeks ahead? This guy's name was Bernard Bob Jackson Quite a character in his own right in On the predetermined date and time I arrived air knocks on the door. Door opens about an inch. And I hear this voice is. Are you whittling. I said Yes sir they let me see your ID card slip it through the door. Who knows what's going on the other side he's probably chuckling or whatever but invites me in and we have about three five minute interview that Everything he offered was great but not assured I took him up on his offer. And that's how I joined the unit and made a commitment At that time and two or three months later one of the first in whoops called the initial padres to show up. We didn't have a permanent place to stay. We had a couple of Single wide trailer on on the flight. Line at Nellis Air Force Base and I spent about four and a half five years With the unit I watched it go from obtaining are I eighty seven to become an seven unit the with the as our cover story story Doing Avionics testing and of course I was For whatever reason nothing unique about me because because there were several very talented and capable people in part of that initial Kadre but Colonel Jackson for whatever reason he did elected to Have may be the first operational pilot now. I've had two theories about that. The first is I was expendable. Yeah and so. If it didn't work out nothing was lost but and as it turned out That that was a very unique experience and then of course Being the first operational pilot help check out the next guy and so on and so forth and eventually we received airplanes wanted to time and we checked out people want at the time and by while the intent was by nineteen eighty two to have limited operational operational capability. We simply just didn't the airplanes fast enough because some challenges that they had faced in that process and well how to build it exactly and each airplane was very unique in his own right. What those first few coming up? Because there's a lessons learned very quickly. Adjustments were being made in the Production and June of eighty five rolled around I had basically Evolved into being the Training Squadron Commander and I left the unit about four or five assignments later in August of nineteen ninety. I showed back up on the doorstep So we we had come all the way back to band at one fifty and being the first operational pilot. That's the how we came about my bandit number
EAA's The Green Dot - An Aviation Podcast
DTG Pyrotechnics President, Dion Diehl, Talks About His Start in Pyrotechnics
"Us today is dion deal. He's <hes> the president of we called d._t. Pyro and going to talk to us about some things we saw it or venture this year deanne welcome. Thank you hello everyone well. It's really really really glad to have you with your appreciate your making the time to time to come in so let's <hes> before we get to the things we saw ventures or what goes into that. I'm going to start a little a bit with your background when somebody works in pyrotechnics professionally. There's <hes> there's an immediate assumption that we know a lot about you you. You were a terrible kid. You were always lighting. Things on fire takes like that is. Can you dispel that myth a little bit or how does somebody get into that that line of work. I like to think that was a little a little bit more responsible with my irresponsibility. As as a child i won't i won't lie ahead <hes> <hes> some experimentation z- <hes> when i was younger which kind of cultivated the spirit within me i guess where i'm from <hes> i'm from originally from georgia and my dad was a police officer and so <hes> fireworks at the time where illegal <hes> in georgia which made the the desire to get my hands on them as a a young boy <hes> even more exciting <hes> my personality type you know you remember the cap guns when your kid with the role of caps. Oh absolutely i didn't shoot it. Does what the gun i. I begged him with a hammer paper ones right before they went to the plastic brings exactly exactly so. I smell them right now. You know there's there's definitely only some of that. There was a desire when i was a kid to <hes> you know have fun with the all the things that were exciting as i imagine most boys. Are you know loud. Loud noises bright flashes big bang's. You know all of that stuff is exciting and so when the when i was a kid i got my hands hands on bottle rockets and <hes> you know saturn missiles those types of things as everyone else but <hes> is your dad going to be listening to this as he still no he. He's not with us anymore more but <hes> no no worries he was very resistant to providing me with fireworks as they were illegal at the time and my dad was very particular about following the law <hes> and so <hes> you know like everywhere else across the country come fourth of july or new year's eve fireworks are just around sure even in the states that are prohibitive and <hes> i snuck away and and i think my dad <hes> when he was not working he he wasn't concerned about what was going on in the neighborhood and i think he knew what we were doing to some degree. Maybe not to the scale but we had a lot of fun as a child and empire certainly started very young so this is a this is fascinating for me because it's you know it's an area. I'm just wildly. Ignorant is there is they. They were school that you go to is there. Is there a place that you go to train. Is it more of an apprenticeship sort of thing how do you how do you go from. I like these things that go boom to making it a career rear. <hes> somewhat of it's mostly apprenticeship based <hes> community <hes> that's changed quite a bit over the last decade <hes> and progresses this is <hes> to where it's becoming more formalized education certifications. I <hes> formerly was involved with the p._g._a. Which is the pyrotechnics guild international which which is kind of a similar to maybe you're casts. Oh <hes> as a private group that has started up to try to regulate the community and bring safety standards and operational standards across the board and p._g. Has developed course over the last maybe fifteen years i get involved with the local club and became a certified trainer. <hes> through the process well. I i should take a step back. I took the course and became certified in that <hes> <hes> but i also became a trainer and i've certified probably well over four hundred five hundred pirate technicians in the region <hes> as an educator with the program <hes> <hes> and teaching people to do that but how i got introduced to it <hes> was much more organic. It wasn't really something that i targeted <hes> i i ran a normal daytime job <hes> at the time period and <hes> when <hes> pyro was a hobby it was something that started <hes> you know doing the backyard shows for for friends but there was a love for it so we take everything two hundred ten percent me and my my buddies and so <hes> we didn't want to just do regular back backyard shows we wanted to do gran iran displays and and synchronize things and take it to a whole different level than i think just lighting one fees at a time and <hes> it's funny honey so there was a a local or there is a local fireworks store in green bay wisconsin <hes> that we would we would go to <hes> and patronize and learned over the years are pooling of our moneys and stuff for our shows. You know we would buy a substantial amount of fireworks every year. We'd increase it increase it. At least arstan arstan. Gina was five six hundred dollars one year than twelve hundred dollars and the more people you get involved and we'd grow the show he kept building and <hes> i actually have a background background electro mechanical engineering and <hes> so for me again like i was saying earlier not real exciting for me to just light one fees fees at a time i wanna light the same effect in five different positions and i wanted to be perfectly synchronized and so <hes> i built my own electronics to do this and this is you know in my late teens. <hes> you know when we started doing this and <hes> you know that desire just to kind of push the limits in and do cooling creative things <hes> was a big push and that local store actually introduced us to wisconsin club because they saw that there was a passion there that was deeper than just your regular consumer but as a quick aside <hes> i've been wisconsin resident resident for about ten years now and something i noticed noticed very soon after moving here is that we wisconsin i love fireworks we will we will have fireworks shows for any occasion. I think it was. I driven home. When i saw a saint patrick's day fireworks show that was all green <hes> here in oshkosh shortly after i moved in their fireworks stores all over the place. It seemed to be the open year round. It's fascinating part of the culture <hes> it did that have anything to do. You start at in georgia. How did you get to wisconsin. Did you hear there's a lot of fireworks here. That's where i gotta be. No at that time i was looking for a life change. I was young. I was seventeen and and really trying to explore you know my <hes> individualism and pyro wasn't really a part of the thought process at the time <hes> and and that brought me up to wisconsin in in your correct something that's unique to know. Is that in you know about the pyro community here in wisconsin. It's bigger than you think. I think it is. <hes> wisconsin actually has the largest <hes> licensed pyrotechnics per capita than anywhere else in the united states and a lot of that is supported by similar to icaza a great local club here the wisconsin pyrotechnic guard skilled that helps foster <hes> of that and so <hes>. There's definitely eh something unique and special about wisconsin. I don't know if it's the long winters in the exciting. Let's get out and have some fun in the summer and so <hes> people take things to a whole different level. Oh you know when they have to unleash all that built up <hes> excitement <hes> but wisconsin is definitely a very pyro friendly state absolutely yeah. I'm from connecticut connecticut and don't quote me on this. I seem to remember like a big deal. When i was a kid was that sparklers finally became a legal in connecticut that was that was the big stuff that we talk doc so and you were lucky because in georgia when i was a kid they didn't even allow those no snakes snakes. No no they were boring. They were very very boring back. Then i mean no offense to anybody out there who might be in the snake business but those those are the the ridiculous little pellets l._s._u. Let him on fire and just ask squirts out and you do those as a kid because that's the that's one of the things your parents might let you do if they won't let you like the good stuff. If you're deprived arrived at your whole life then it's really excited so yes well like i said i grew up in connecticut. I'm kind of a late comer to wha air venture. I've really only been going since i've been on staff here <hes> for the last seven years but <hes> tells a little bit about the <hes> the history of the fireworks show at venture. I i know that we it's coordinated with the night air. Show the these days does predate that. That's what's your experience <hes>. It was always a the the night air show i believe was introduced or reintroduced in two thousand ten here in oshkosh and it was immediate. <hes> that that we started doing fireworks at that time <hes> i had pursued you know we're from green bay wisconsin so we're only an hour away from oshkosh and <hes> i knew about air adventure. I actually knew about air venture since i was a kid <hes> back in georgia. My dad talked about it quite a bit really and yeah and it's oh my gosh. I should say this. It's so surprising how many people even locally here have not been to era venture <hes> when i was hearing about it back in georgia thousand miles miles away is that it has a worldwide draw but it's is he said it is it is amazing. I think if you have any interest in aviation than you you can say adventure or more more likely you can say oshkosh right to any aviation group anywhere in the world than what you're talking about but but sometimes you do have people right here in the in the backyard who are obviously very aware of it but people don't often think you know like a like a tourist and their own hometown. The sometimes missed the things that happened right there similar to the snakes availability. I think if it's available sometimes you may say i'll get to that or or you know pushed off to an opportune time <hes> <hes> but <hes> you know going back. I i had pursued e._a. For about maybe five years <hes> trying to get my foot in the door to talk about what would i've had a vision for <hes> for bringing fireworks into the night air show and it was it was difficult <hes> at the time and just by a good connection that was a gentleman that i used to work for ya think in the marketing division matt miller and i worked with matt on other programs <hes> you know for that he was doing oshkosh irish fest which hopefully awfully might have been the one you saw. I think it was yeah. We're mapping very involved in those doing a fireworks for that and he ended up connecting me up with tom. Pope resnick and joe schumacher <hes> at the time schumacher was dead air director and we had a conversation and <hes> they had reasonable concerns <hes> <hes> about bringing introducing fireworks into an airspace. It's it's a very difficult <hes> thing to accomplish and we were setting new standards to work within within the airshow box not doing our show outside of the airshow box and so a lot of new ground kind of had to be broken and a lot of trust head to be built <hes> between us in your organization to attempt at for the first time in two thousand ten <hes> and at that time they only did one night air show <hes> in fact. I don't think they switched to night. Air shows <hes> until twenty twelve at sounds outright. We added the wednesday show yeah right and in through the process through building of trust in discovering bring <hes> different opportunities working with dennis dunbar as well since he's taken over after joe <hes> we've discovered new opportunities and he's where we can introduce pyrotechnics into the various events of the night air show not just a culminating <hes> you know pie fireworks finale but also in other aspects that you've seen maybe this year with red line twin tigers <hes> ghost rider <hes> we did some performances during those times also during the daytime we also did pyrotechnics for eight your <hes> so the really really exciting busy year going from that from just a nighttime display to to you.