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
