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Aviation News Talk podcast

71 Vicky Benzing Air Show Pilot Interview – Live from AirVenture 2018

Aviation News Talk podcast

Glass Cockpit Publishing

General, G1000, Leisure, Gps, Ifr, Glasscockpit, Safety, Sr20, Trescott, Flying, Tips, Cirrus, Aviation, News, Max, Sr22, Garmin, Waas, Perspective

4.8730 Ratings

🗓️ 26 July 2018

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

71 Broadcasting live video from AirVenture - Watch Us Live on Facebook

Your Cirrus Specialist. Call me if you're thinking of buying a new Cirrus SR20 or SR22. Call 1-650-967-2500 for Cirrus purchase and training assistance.

Max interviews Air Show pilot Vicky Benzing about how she first got interested in flying, and how she progressed to flying in air shows and as a racer in the Reno Air Races, where she earned the title “Fastest Woman Racer” flying in a one-of-a-kind L139 jet. She also talks about the importance of being a role model for women and girls.

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Transcript

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0:00.0

Let's see if the video is coming up here.

0:04.0

All right, super.

0:05.0

I think we are ready to roll.

0:08.0

Awesome. Awesome. All right, good.

0:10.0

We are set.

0:13.0

Three, two, one.

0:17.0

Hello and welcome to Aviation News Talk.

0:20.0

Thank you for joining us for our first live show.

0:23.1

Here we are on the grounds of Air Venture.

0:25.5

I'm your host, Max Trescott.

0:27.0

I'm the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year.

0:29.6

And these days, I spend about five, six days a week teaching in the Cirrus in the San Francisco Bay Area.

0:35.7

And also help folks who are buying or learning to get comfortable

0:39.9

with their new Sears Aircraft. And we are live in the Lightspeed tent at Air Venture. Lightspeed is

0:45.9

course maker of automatic noise reduction headsets. I've been one of their customers for probably

0:50.5

close to 20 years at this point. And we're using their headsets here.

0:54.3

I want to thank them very much for letting us use the tent here in the show.

0:57.7

Coming up in just a moment, we have Vicki Benzing.

0:59.7

We'll be talking with her.

1:00.9

She is an air show pilot.

1:01.9

We'll be talking about her career and how she got into flying air shows.

1:05.2

And then later in the hour, we have Jolie Lucas, who's a AOP, a writer, but also an airport advocate for one of my favorite airports in California,

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