Aviation Safety Myths: Bush Pilot Mindset with Matt Keller

[@arcticcowboy8659]

Mike and Matt rescued my wife and I out at grasshopper valley when we got stuck sheep hunting during the crazy storm in the fall of 2012. Amazing guys.

[@MartinBielkovic]

There are wild sheep in alaska?

[@petenelson8136]

Don't know how I found this video, but wow was it good. I'm not a pilot, and at 65 probably never will be, but I've always wanted to fly. In college I joined a flying club and the instructor told the 4 of us in the class that he didn't have the time to teach us, but he handed us the keys to the room that had a Link Trainer in it. We all spent days "learning" (wink wink) to fly by playing with the Link Trainer. A few years later I went flying with a friend of mine that had his license and I got to sit up front with him. He gave me the controls as we were flying over a frozen lake in NH. It was kind of funny, because he told me to go over there (to the left) and when I turned the plane the nose dipped and he grabbed the controls. I wasn't used to flying looking around. I asked him if I could try again, this time watching the instruments and I did it perfectly. He was totally surprised. I mentioned to him that I learned to "fly" in a Link Trainer at school, often times with blackout curtains on it. He said most people learn to fly by looking out of the windows, and then learn instruments, when it appeared I'd learned in the opposite manner. A few years later I missed a golden opportunity (when I was 23 years old) to get my pilots license. A friend of mine took the time to get his and I've always kicked myself for not doing what he did = life decisions you always look back on. I was spending my time getting in shape because I was going off to Airborne and Ranger school, while he was headed to his first assignment as a 2LT. Thank you for this very interesting and informative interview. Reading the other comments it was sad to hear that Jim Tweto lost his life recently flying. I watched his show all the time and loved his approach to flying. Your guest reminded me a lot of Jim in the way he approaches his craft.

[@Hamperokken]

Whohooo! Another great interview!

[@lindsaylefaivre537]

Great interview, I have really enjoyed watching Matt doing these high mountain flights, Cheers from Canada

[@seanmcgillivray9655]

Can’t wait for my new Sport Aircraft seats to ship! ❤❤❤

[@New2Me170B]

I really appreciate the validation of my natural cynicism at the end. The bonus content was great. I did not expect JP to enter a conversation about flying but it fit perfectly into the subject.

[@AirplanesInTheWild]

Is it even a podcast if he isn’t mentioned?

[@New2Me170B]

@@AirplanesInTheWild "You gotta clean your bloody plane."

[@AirplanesInTheWild]

@@New2Me170Btook me a second but I get it now.

[@CjaeTheSparrow]

Really love the interviews! Incredibly personable and engaging! ❤

[@Pilotc180]

Dont ever think you have all the answers for Alaskan flying; no one knew more than the late, great Jim Tweto🥲

[@AirplanesInTheWild]

Very true

[@alaskamedgrower5416]

💯 and such a nice with that everlasting smile

[@alaskamedgrower5416]

Nice guy

[@nelchinanoble]

Great podcast! Pretty cool to find out Matt flew an Arctic Tern around while growing up. Great to get his perspective of flying in and around the mountains where I live.

[@cub6zt]

Great advice and insight for safer flying. Thanks, keep the videos coming. Guess I better order some good seat covers from you 😊

[@AirplanesInTheWild]

It’s almost like you’re obligated to 🙌😂

[@donmamaril3880]

These are great!! Thank you!

[@AirplanesInTheWild]

Glad you like them!

[@988bran]

I love all the knowledge you share about flying. A lot of good points in this video.

[@AirplanesInTheWild]

Thanks, Glad you enjoyed it!

[@Kujjiman]

16:02 "Don't do anything you're not comfortable with." I love his talking point on this. I'm surround by CFI's and Commercial Pilots who will hear there's a gusting crosswind of 18 and won't fly because the max demonstrated crosswind was 17. I will never actively shame anyone for choosing not to fly when they're uncomfortable, but if you're going to be a professional, you're going to have to do some uncomfortable things. You might as well be a little uncomfortable intentionally (by taking off into known crosswinds and learning how the plane flies in a fairly controlled environment) before you're notifying ATC of your fuel remaining trying to find a calm runway somewhere in Oklahoma because the intended destination is above the max demonstrated crosswind.

[@EllipsisAircraft]

Published max crosswind COMPONENT (key word). You can bring a 30kt direct crosswind down to a 17kt component with nothing but a napkin, Trig, and more Speed. Another point, it is max "demonstrated". As in, during certification the maximum crosswind they could find, that also exceeded the FAA minimum (15kt?) for cert, this is what they had to work with. And also, it was waaaay higher crosswind than 17kt. As that is "Component" and these test pilots and the FAA people know what this means: Math.

[@BryanNichols]

That was great.

[@MrPang278]

This is great. 😊

[@AirplanesInTheWild]

Thank you! 😄

[@craigsimpson8632]

Would love to see Mike meekins on here!

[@N519MP]

great interview, I'd like to see a similar one with float flying in the mountains with small lakes at elevation.

[@behindthespotlight7983]

I’m only 5:18 into this but maybe a word of advice? (I have just over 1800 interview format news and commentary programs under my belt as a Producer. And occasional Cohost. Somewhere around 7000 hours.) Right away I’m cautioning the Host: if you want to exude tremendous personality and be the focus of the airtime make yourself available for guest appearances on other platforms that serve similar subject matter. When you bring in a guest, especially a guest with the bonafides of this gentleman, it is ALL about your guest. This includes having interesting and multifaceted questions ready. Tailoring at least 15% of those questions to whatever the guest is currently working on, 5% of the conversation is devoted to helping them promote whatever their quid pro quo is (for agreeing to do the show: new book, conference, seminar, classes, movie) And perhaps most importantly, write it on a Post It, off-camera: do not interrupt your guest. After they speak do a 2-count. Or even a 3-count. Then speak. I had to learn this stuff too and I felt bruised when an old school media veteran shared it with me. Even got beat up in comments. Because many of us start as guests. Hosting is the exact opposite. I’m gonna hang with this, it looks interesting and wish you the best moving forward. 👍🏼

[@AirplanesInTheWild]

Thanks. All great advice. Sometimes I cringe when I watch these. This was the 3rd “interview” I had done ever. Most of my guests have nothing they would like to promote. Most are retired with the exception of this gentleman. Any ideas of how to add value for guests that do not really want publicity?

[@AkPacerPilot]

Excellent stuff…

[@alaskadrifter]

I want to be Matt when I grow up 😂.

[@1bobharvey]

Awsome talk!

[@AirplanesInTheWild]

Thanks

[@atg197]

Supercapacitors are handy for starting aircraft and other machines in winter also; very high max current spins things fast. Not much cranking duration, but charges even from a dead battery.

[@desertshooter007]

Lets get CC Pockock in there! #bushair

[@akschu1]

Matt, when will you have more hats? Mine is all worn out.

[@AirplanesInTheWild]

I doubt Matt will see this comment. He’s too busy flying 🙂

[@alpenglow1235]

Williwa. A local downslope wind best identified by a texture on the water known as “black water”, or by blowing snow. From Wikipedia: “In meteorology, a williwaw (archaic spelling williwau[1]) is a sudden blast of wind descending from a mountainous coast to the sea. The word is of unknown origin, but was earliest used by British seamen in the 19th century. The usage appears for winds found in the Strait of Magellan, the Aleutian Islands and the coastal fjords of the Alaskan Panhandle, where the terms outflow wind and squamish wind are also used for the same phenomenon. On Greenland the word piteraq is used.” “The williwaw results from the descent of cold, dense air from coastal mountains in high latitudes. Thus the williwaw is considered a type of katabatic wind.”

[@abesmil]

Where can we do bookings

[@AirplanesInTheWild]

Go here and click on “I want to stay at the glacier hut” blueiceaviation.com/glacier-hut/

[@LibertyBanjo]

Have you figured out Stinson 108 seats? last time we talked, you didn't have the time to work out.

[@AirplanesInTheWild]

Depends on what you have. You can contact Daniel at the main phone number. He has been working on a few patterns for those lately

[@StephenShreds]

Why don’t you link the websites?

[@AirplanesInTheWild]

There’s just a theory that KZbin won’t push the content of people are clicking off of the platform Sportaircraftseats.com Blueiceaviation.com

[@frednorthup1657]

Did he ever encounter a down draft so strong he couldn’t stop the drop? Would he do a 180?

[@PostcardsfromAlaska]

Great point about the “positive thinking” mindset. We need those people. We just don’t need them flying airplanes. Probably should stay away from boats too.

[@AirplanesInTheWild]

Hey you win the prize for making through to the end. 💪

[@PatagoniaBushPilots]

🏆

[@ryaninman6307]

The glare on the sign, lighting needs adjustment. Enjoy interviews thanks

[@AirplanesInTheWild]

Thanks. We are getting a different sign.

[@nelsondoan8271]

👍

[@russberry3240]

Sauna… Called a sweat lodge.

[@canuckchris5733]

Stop interrupting your guests

[@AirplanesInTheWild]

Definitely something I have improved upon since this interview. Thanks for the insight.

[@mark1avia]

Learn what a “wilawah” … IS…You understand it incorrectly….!

[@AirplanesInTheWild]

Sounds like you need to enlighten us

[@doncatchpole]

Stop interrupting..

[@stevemyers2092]

boy you keep on interrupting your guest......watch Rogan -

[@AirplanesInTheWild]

That’s hilarious I was thinking the same thing, I wish I had left more space for him. Having said that, Rogan talks way more than I do.

[@jamiegunson7800]

Yip, agree. Great content but when they’re talking let them talk.

[@akflyer7689]

Great interview! I really appreciated the comment “go around will kill you.” I had never considered the possibility of getting trapped in a rut of thinking they were always an option. The explanation of the meaning, and his techniques for dealing with approaches was very enlightening and informative. I learned a lot from him, and enjoyed the casual conversation style. Thanks.

[@AirplanesInTheWild]

@@akflyer7689thanks for the kind words. more to come