Episode 70
SPC #70 – Let’s Talk
In Episode 70, sit down with Bill and talk all about some upcoming plans for Airventure, for the podcast, and this episode includes a BIG announcement, so enjoy.
This episode has a video version as well which can be found HERE.
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Transcript
So welcome back SPC listeners.
Speaker:So glad to be back with another episode today.
Speaker:And this one's going to be a little different.
Speaker:I think.
Speaker:That there's some event coming up soon, but I just can't remember what it is.
Speaker:Let's see if I can figure it out in episode 70.
Speaker:Of the student pilot cast.
Speaker:Let's talk.
Speaker:Oh, that's right.
Speaker:Oshkosh EAA air venture is coming up.
Speaker:I hope you're headed there, but if not, I'll try and bring a
Speaker:little bit of the flavor of it.
Speaker:If I can.
Speaker:So for today's episode.
Speaker:I want to bring you up to speed on where I was at in my training.
Speaker:I let you in and non some Oshkosh information about my plans.
Speaker:Lay out some plans for air venture in the next few episodes.
Speaker:So a little bit about the podcast.
Speaker:And make a big announcement.
Speaker:So let's get through this quickly so we can all get back to finalizing our
Speaker:plans and packing for air venture.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:So first I'm going to start with a training update.
Speaker:So if you've been listening, you know, I got back to training after
Speaker:like 11 years off, early last year.
Speaker:And the plan was to hit it pretty hard for awhile.
Speaker:I had just completed my flight review.
Speaker:Uh, to get current again, and it was time to start my instrument rating.
Speaker:Start the training for that.
Speaker:Anyway.
Speaker:Again, I was training at red rock flight school.
Speaker:A, part 61 school at Falcon field airport in Mesa, Arizona.
Speaker:That's K F F Z.
Speaker:And I was excited to get going.
Speaker:The last time I was under the hood was like way back in 2008.
Speaker:I think when I was finishing up my private training.
Speaker:And I had heard all kinds of stories and things about the instrument rating.
Speaker:Some things I heard were kind of scary.
Speaker:And some were kind of exciting, but.
Speaker:was, well, I was all in and ready to go.
Speaker:I would do some ground training, a bunch of flying under the hood or in my case.
Speaker:Foggles and.
Speaker:Gotta remind me to tell you about my modified old man.
Speaker:Foggles that I.
Speaker:That I use, but we'll save that for another episode.
Speaker:I would end up doing some of my simulated instrument on a basic
Speaker:training device or simulator.
Speaker:And I'll talk about that a little bit, but it'll mostly be just me.
Speaker:My account of flying the SIM is it's very, very different than flying
Speaker:an airplane, as you can imagine.
Speaker:So unless I was using video, which I wasn't, it doesn't make sense to share
Speaker:details of that, but I'll let you know what my experience was like doing that.
Speaker:I'll take you as usual.
Speaker:All the way to my instrument rating checkride.
Speaker:And then we'll start tackling what would come after that, whatever that may be.
Speaker:So you can expect the next little while on the podcast to take you
Speaker:mostly through my instrument rating.
Speaker:Which I hope will be interesting to you all it.
Speaker:I know I was loving it, so I hope you'll love it too.
Speaker:I'd love to hear your questions or suggestions on what I should talk
Speaker:about and what I should cover from my experiences going through this training.
Speaker:So if there's anything that you want to hear about, please,
Speaker:please, please let me know.
Speaker:And I will include that in future episodes.
Speaker:The instrument rating is widely thought to be the most cerebral of the rate ratings.
Speaker:The one that makes you think the most.
Speaker:Um, and so far I tend to agree.
Speaker:I think there's a lot of philosophy and study of human nature in the CFI training.
Speaker:But to me that's a lot less technical and vast and, and kind
Speaker:of difficult to grasp than what you cover in the instrument rating.
Speaker:So, yeah, so far in my young flying career, the instrument has been the
Speaker:biggest brain challenge for the vast amount and complexity of the material.
Speaker:So yeah, I was excited to tackle it.
Speaker:And I'm excited to bring you along to.
Speaker:So let's talk a little bit about air venture.
Speaker:So I'm going to be.
Speaker:I'm going to be at AirVenture from Tuesday the 23rd through Saturday, the 27th.
Speaker:And I'm also going to be, uh, an adjunct or, um, Uh, helper, if you will.
Speaker:For Lightspeed aviation.
Speaker:So a lot of the week you'll find me.
Speaker:Uh, around the, uh, Around the Lightspeed tent or the Lightspeed booth.
Speaker:Um, I should be there.
Speaker:Probably from Wednesday through Friday during the day, maybe a little more.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:So feel free to stop by and say hi.
Speaker:I would love to see you.
Speaker:Um, the Lightspeed booth is number 2 59 and it's just north.
Speaker:Of hanger B um, it's right next to the hanger though.
Speaker:Um, Lightspeed has wanting to gather some comfort information
Speaker:and feedback from show goers.
Speaker:So while you're there, if you have time come by and find me, and I'll help you
Speaker:get started participate in the survey where you can try on various headsets
Speaker:there's and competitors and other ones and other ones, and give feedback.
Speaker:They're doing some market research and some stuff like that could be kind of fun.
Speaker:And like I said, I'd love to see us.
Speaker:So come by if you can.
Speaker:You can also check out their new headset, which is the Delta Zulu.
Speaker:It's got some great features.
Speaker:I've been flying with it for months.
Speaker:Um, and I, I really love it.
Speaker:So you can come by and check that out.
Speaker:If you haven't already.
Speaker:And best of all, if you come by, we'll get to hang out a little bit and
Speaker:that's kind of what it's all about.
Speaker:If you're not there.
Speaker:Don't worry.
Speaker:I'll try to get the flavor of the event and talk to a lot of
Speaker:folks and I'll pass along to you.
Speaker:What I, what I find out.
Speaker:And hopefully that'll be interesting and helpful for you for you as well.
Speaker:I'll have a lot less time this year than I usually do when I met at
Speaker:Oshkosh to gather content and so on.
Speaker:Um, I even other years I've always felt rushed.
Speaker:There's always too much.
Speaker:I've got too many appointments for interviews and too many
Speaker:things to see people to talk to.
Speaker:And all of that.
Speaker:So I always feel rushed.
Speaker:Uh, but it could get even more interesting this year because I'm
Speaker:going to be spending so much time.
Speaker:At the Lightspeed tent, so wish me luck.
Speaker:And like I said, come by love to see ya.
Speaker:Um, at least it would, maybe I wouldn't do as much walking as I
Speaker:normally do, but maybe I'll get to meet as many people as I normally do.
Speaker:So come on by, but I'm looking forward to it.
Speaker:It's going to be exhausting and it's going to be amazing as usual.
Speaker:And I'm really looking forward to it.
Speaker:So as far as the podcast goes, I may squeeze in my first
Speaker:instrument rating training flight for next Tuesday's episode.
Speaker:And that'll be that.
Speaker:That'll be my first full day at the show.
Speaker:So I'll be running around.
Speaker:Doing all sorts of stuff at air venture, but I could schedule it to come out.
Speaker:Then if I can get it edited and finished before then, Um, so you may get that next.
Speaker:And it won't, won't be Tuesday, but we'll talk about that later.
Speaker:It'll probably be Wednesday.
Speaker:Um, but that should come out.
Speaker:And then after that, Um, hopefully we'll have a bunch of stuff from Oshkosh that
Speaker:we'll be able to share with you as well.
Speaker:And that might not be regular.
Speaker:It might not be once a week.
Speaker:We might release some things.
Speaker:Uh, on the podcast feed.
Speaker:Um, more often than once a week, it depends on our wifi access.
Speaker:And when we can get things out, like I said, Oshkosh week is exhausting.
Speaker:Lots going on.
Speaker:So bear with me.
Speaker:If it does take me a whole week to get the next one out.
Speaker:Um, but we certainly won't skip a week or anything like that.
Speaker:Um, publishing a couple of features in the weeks after Oshkosh as well.
Speaker:Before we get back to the regular scheduled instrument training.
Speaker:Um, but it all depends on what I'm able to get.
Speaker:Like I said, and, um, you know, what I can put together
Speaker:in the short time that I have.
Speaker:So, um, anyway, we'll, we'll see how it goes, but I'll definitely be releasing.
Speaker:I'll definitely be releasing some stuff, uh, about and around Oshkosh.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:And that leads me to the big announcement I was talking about.
Speaker:And that's that I'm going to be moving the podcast release day to Wednesday.
Speaker:I know it's shocking.
Speaker:Everybody's probably, Oh, actually that's not the important part.
Speaker:The important part is the reason I'm moving it to Wednesday.
Speaker:So I'm actually going to bring in a special guest to help
Speaker:me make this announcement.
Speaker:And so Tiffany, Tiffany Wolf, I'd like you to come in.
Speaker:Why don't you introduce yourself to the student pilot cast?
Speaker:Audience.
Speaker:Hey, student pilot cast, this is pilot Tiffany from the pilot cast
Speaker:way back in the day and I'm so excited to be here with Bill again
Speaker:because we have a big announcement.
Speaker:I bet some of my, uh, some of my listeners, my old time listeners
Speaker:probably remember the pilot cast.
Speaker:So you'll remember Tiffany really well.
Speaker:We
Speaker:were, uh, partners in crime, I guess, maybe without the crime, hopefully.
Speaker:I don't know.
Speaker:But, but we, we had a good time on the pilot cast and why don't
Speaker:you tell them what we're doing?
Speaker:Flightline
Speaker:with a similar style podcast and we are calling it the flight line podcast,
Speaker:podcast, baby.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So a little bit of hanger talk.
Speaker:Um, hopefully being able to tell some really wonderful stories and
Speaker:share adventures with you guys.
Speaker:I've been traveling a ton for work, and I get to do that in a
Speaker:beautiful citation Mustang, which will be flying to Oshkosh this year.
Speaker:I'm excited about that.
Speaker:Super nice.
Speaker:I'm a little jealous.
Speaker:yeah, it is pretty.
Speaker:It's It's a little bit different than a 1 72.
Speaker:It's kind of hard to go back, but
Speaker:flew a 182 in there once as pilot in command and once as a passenger.
Speaker:And, uh, I think your experience might be a little bit different in the citation.
Speaker:This is true.
Speaker:Yeah, this time and many other times I'll be flying in a human mailing tube.
Speaker:So, I think you're still going to have a lot better time than I will flying in.
Speaker:human mailing tube.
Speaker:It's funny.
Speaker:I did just
Speaker:a jet, a big jet that I'm not in the cockpit of.
Speaker:got it.
Speaker:Got it.
Speaker:I thought we were going back to like the 1940s when they would put stamps
Speaker:on their kids and put them in the mail.
Speaker:I was I was envisioning you bill with a couple of stamps all over you
Speaker:and some box in the back of a train.
Speaker:Well, that's kind of what you feel like in the airlines these days.
Speaker:So, I mean, they might as well stick a stamp on you.
Speaker:Oh,
Speaker:and I looked at my ticket and I went.
Speaker:Wait, there's double digits on here.
Speaker:12.
Speaker:There's 12 seats.
Speaker:that's amazing.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So I guess that's important too.
Speaker:You're going to be at Osh, right?
Speaker:Yes, absolutely.
Speaker:So we'll be gathering information and content and
Speaker:ideas all over the place, right?
Speaker:Should be able to bring some cool stuff in the new podcast.
Speaker:What do you think?
Speaker:I think it's wonderful.
Speaker:Last year I had a friend, um, their, her son was excited to learn how
Speaker:to start flying and he's just about ready to take his check right now.
Speaker:It's crazy.
Speaker:Uh, but he came out to Oshkosh
Speaker:make sure he's listening to the student pilot cast.
Speaker:That'll help him.
Speaker:He will be.
Speaker:Uh, but it was fun.
Speaker:He came out to Oshkosh and him and his dad and I was kind of telling
Speaker:him some of the tips and tricks and they're looking at me like.
Speaker:We're just here to see the airplanes.
Speaker:I'm like, okay, okay.
Speaker:There's a lot more to that.
Speaker:The next day they gave me a quick call and said, okay, we're on tip number 10.
Speaker:So they, they had taken it into account.
Speaker:Like, no, there's, there's a lot more to Oshkosh than just rolling in and your
Speaker:sneakers and sitting on the grass all day.
Speaker:So I'm excited to, to be able to bring some of those stories.
Speaker:I know some people that work up to it by walking like 15, 000 steps every day
Speaker:because When you're at AirVenture, if you haven't been before, I think you
Speaker:probably walk about 20, 000 steps a day.
Speaker:So sometimes people work up to it.
Speaker:I'm not saying I do that, but there might be some people that do that.
Speaker:that's
Speaker:No, it's going to be fun.
Speaker:And,
Speaker:From antiques to warbirds is a bit of a trek.
Speaker:it's a long one.
Speaker:And when you're waking up early and you're trying to see if you can grab a ticket
Speaker:in the Ford tri motor, Because you didn't think ahead and you have to go every
Speaker:morning all the way to warbirds from camping That is a long long walk at five
Speaker:in the morning and Again, not saying this happened to me, but every morning trying
Speaker:to do it and not having any tickets left
Speaker:really?
Speaker:a lot of walking
Speaker:Oh my god, did you actually get a flight in there?
Speaker:No, we ended up going in the Bell helicopter.
Speaker:This is back, this is in 2022, but we never got the trimotor.
Speaker:They were booked every day.
Speaker:We just weren't quick enough.
Speaker:But anyway, we are gonna, we are going to be gathering some information
Speaker:and having some fun at AirVenture.
Speaker:And we're going to bring as much as we can to you.
Speaker:Um, and you know, our, our releases at the beginning might be a little
Speaker:haphazard because we're going to be.
Speaker:In Wisconsin, and we'll try and get things out when we can, but we'll
Speaker:really good there.
Speaker:It's really good.
Speaker:It's not, uh, but we'll, we'll get some stuff out and, and, we'll start
Speaker:releasing on a regular schedule, on Tuesdays, uh, like I said, and so I'll be
Speaker:moving student pilot cast to Wednesdays.
Speaker:So it's going to be fun, right?
Speaker:We're excited.
Speaker:Yeah, I'm excited.
Speaker:I think that there's a lot of great stories out there and wonderful
Speaker:people and incredible, you different industries that we get to explore.
Speaker:And so I'm looking forward to bringing on some different guests.
Speaker:And, um, actually, I'm also looking forward to trying to hit up more air
Speaker:shows this year, since now I feel like we have to, since we're the flight
Speaker:I know.
Speaker:I mean, Somebody has got to do it.
Speaker:I know.
Speaker:podcast might as well be it.
Speaker:Yeah.
Speaker:So, yeah, so our first episode will just be kind of a reintroduction
Speaker:to the both of us and what we're going to be doing with Flightline.
Speaker:We'll release that hopefully this week, right before Oshkosh.
Speaker:But, there's going to be, there's going to be a little trick in there.
Speaker:We're going to.
Speaker:Release some Oshkosh hacks for those of you who are going.
Speaker:So we'll have a few hacks in there to make your experience better,
Speaker:more interesting, uh, maybe a little easier, maybe not 25, 000 steps a day.
Speaker:I don't know, something like that.
Speaker:But, but, uh, Tiffany has some stuff up her sleeve,
Speaker:you where the coolest place is at Oshkosh and it is not actually on the flight line.
Speaker:but you'll find out about it on podcast.
Speaker:Right.
Speaker:That's right.
Speaker:All right.
Speaker:Bill, I'm high fiving you virtually.
Speaker:so anyway, yeah, we'll get that out this week and obviously, um, and then,
Speaker:uh, we'll get you some stuff, right after, so we're excited to be, going
Speaker:again, together with the Flightline podcast and we'll see you there soon.
Speaker:Awesome.
Speaker:So, well, there you go.
Speaker:Because of OSH.
Speaker:My releases might get a little haphazard for the next week or two,
Speaker:but it'll probably be more, not less.
Speaker:Than usual and Tiffany and I wanted to get the flight line
Speaker:podcast announced to you guys.
Speaker:So head over to flight line, podcast.com.
Speaker:Or in the next few days, Just check your favorite podcast players for the first
Speaker:episode, which should release soon.
Speaker:We, like I said, we wanted to get that announced before
Speaker:we headed out to the show.
Speaker:And we'd love for you to check it out.
Speaker:We'll be releasing new flight line podcasts, as we mentioned.
Speaker:On Tuesdays.
Speaker:And also, as I mentioned, I'll be switching to releasing new
Speaker:SPC episodes on Wednesdays.
Speaker:Like today's.
Speaker:So remember they're two different shows, so subscribed to the flight line.
Speaker:Podcasts separately from this one.
Speaker:Now.
Speaker:As usual.
Speaker:I love hearing from all of you.
Speaker:I've been getting a bunch of messages from listeners since I've
Speaker:started releasing episodes again.
Speaker:So I really appreciate that.
Speaker:All of you really sincerely.
Speaker:I appreciate it.
Speaker:So please keep the feedback and the stories coming.
Speaker:I love hearing about your training and your airplanes and
Speaker:your airports, your adventures.
Speaker:All of it.
Speaker:It's always about the people.
Speaker:We always talk about that.
Speaker:Right?
Speaker:It's all about the people.
Speaker:And while I invite you along, Into my training and into my cockpit with me.
Speaker:It's only fair that I get some stories to write.
Speaker:So reach out if you want to, you can find me on Twitter or X using at bill will.
Speaker:That's Bravo, India, Lima, Lima, whiskey, India, Lima.
Speaker:And through email I'm bill at student pilot, cast.com or
Speaker:bill@flightlinepodcast.com.
Speaker:Either one will work.
Speaker:Or just use the contact link at the top of the website.
Speaker:At student pilot cast.com.
Speaker:If you want to reach out to Tiffany she's at tiffany@flightlinepodcast.com.
Speaker:And I'm sure she'd love to hear from you too.
Speaker:So.
Speaker:It's time for another air venture.
Speaker:I can't wait.
Speaker:And I'm excited to see any of you that are going as well.
Speaker:We mentioned this in the first episode of Flightline once we release it,
Speaker:but Tiffany, Tiffany and I will be at the Lightspeed tent or booth.
Speaker:On Wednesday at four o'clock.
Speaker:If anyone wants to come by and say hi, so please, please do.
Speaker:We would love to see.
Speaker:See you again, if we've met before or meet you for the first time, if we haven't and
Speaker:while I'm bringing you the beginning of my instrument training in the podcast,
Speaker:I'm currently working on additional certs in real life in real time.
Speaker:Uh, additional certs and ratings even now.
Speaker:So the training never stops.
Speaker:I know I'm going to have a great time at Oshkosh.
Speaker:But I'll be looking forward to getting back and doing some more of my flying to.
Speaker:I'm going to be an even better pilot.
