John Zimmerman: Sporty's Pilot Shop
Pilot to Pilot4 Jun 2019

John Zimmerman: Sporty's Pilot Shop

Avination, welcome back to the Pilot to Pilot podcast episode number 62! Today, I am talking with John Zimmerman from Sporty's Pilot Shop. In this episode, John and I talk about...

  • How Sportys is just a collection of pilots that made a business.

  • John talks about his earliest memory of aviation.

  • How John grew up around aviation without realizing he could be a pilot.

  • How the aviation industry isn’t the best at inviting new pilots in.

  • John talks about his training.

  • How John claims he made every mistake there ever was.

  • Talks about being a weekend warrior in Ohio.

  • Why John thinks he did his training wrong.

  • How John realized he needed a more structured training syllabus to get his license.

  • How John knew at an early age he didn’t want to be an airline pilot.

  • But, John still wanted to get a job in aviation.

  • How to stay involved in aviation while you are in college.

  • John talks about flying different types of aircraft early on.

  • What it was like being a pilot in High School.

  • What it's like to have an incomplete check ride.

  • We talk about how aviation is very Humbling.

  • How John got started at Sportys.

  • How John helped create the first true ADSB receiver.

  • How data link weather makes you a safer pilot.

  • We talk about how far aviation has come in the last 10 years.

  • We talk about the future of aviation.

  • Will there ever be single pilot airline operations?


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Happy Flying,

Justin

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