97 How to Start a Flying Club: Costs, Benefits, Culture, and Best Practices - Interview Marc Epner
Aviation News Talk podcast
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🗓️ 4 February 2019
⏱️ 63 minutes
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97 How to Start a Flying Club: Costs, Benefits, Culture, and Best Practices - Interview Marc Epner
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97 Max talks with Marc Epner, a founder of the Leading Edge Flying Club in Chicago, about best practices for starting a flying club, the tradeoffs in structuring as an equity vs. a non-equity club. Some clubs form to reduce the cost of flying, while others such as Leading Edge focus strongly on social activities. Events include hotdog lunches, monthly breakfasts, seminars, and a Run the Runway event.
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Leading Edge Flying Club
AOPA Guide to Starting a Flying Club
AOPA's Flying Club Resources
Cape Fear Flying Club
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| 0:00.0 | Well, it's a labor of love, and so it's one of those things. If you're doing it just to cut cost, think of it more as a partnership and not starting a flying club because you're going to be quickly overwhelmed with this vision versus reality thing. We had a very specific vision that was enduring. And you look at our tagline, great planes, great people, and you look at our articulated values. |
| 0:26.7 | It's easy because we lived it from day one, but it has to be built into the culture. |
| 0:31.8 | And it's not easy to do. |
| 0:42.0 | Hello, yeah, and thank you for joining us for episode 97 of the Aviation News Talk podcast. I'm your host, Max Truscott. And you just heard Mark Eppner, in a few minutes, |
| 0:46.6 | I'll be sitting down with Mark to talk about the leading edge flying club in Chicago, |
| 0:50.7 | the importance of a club's culture, and his advice for how you can start a flying club. |
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| 1:31.9 | there on the Patreon site. Again, that's it, AviationNewstalk.com slash awesome. And now |
| 1:37.3 | here's our conversation with Mark Epner. Now let me tell you a little bit about Mark Epner. Mark |
| 1:43.3 | is a graduate of the University of Iowa, |
| 1:45.5 | and he followed that up with an MBA at Lake Forest Graduate School of Management. And for over 30 |
| 1:50.6 | years, he's worked in a variety of sales and sales management jobs primarily in the software |
| 1:54.5 | industry, and he's currently director of sales at Attunity. He first got his private license in |
| 1:59.5 | 1976, but then took a 25-year hiatus. |
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