Gene Reynolds: Former Special Ops Pilot

Pilot to Pilot - Aviation Podcast

Justin Siems

Leisure, Hobbies, Business, Aviation, Careers

4.9 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 14 May 2019

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Summary

Avination, welcome back to episode 59 of the Pilot to Pilot podcast featuring Gene Reynolds. Gene has pretty much seen it all as a helicopter pilot. He has flown in the army (special ops) and as a civilian pilot in many facets.

Some of the main topics Gene and I talk about are...
How the movie Top Gun led him to want to become a military pilot
How a medical issue messed up his flight slot for the military.
How and why he joined the warrant officer flight program.
Talk about the differences between military training vs civilian.
How Helicopters don’t naturally want to fly.
We talk about what happens when you fall behind in military helicopter training.
Why we need high-quality CFI’s to stay as a CFI.
Gene talks about his deployments
Gene shares some war stories.
Gene talks about how he had TEN tours in the military.
Gene talks about flying Special Ops.
We talk about how someone can make a career in commercial helicopter flying.
Gene talks about the path to getting your dream helicopter job.
Talk about the importance of maintaining networking and not burning any bridges.
Talks about mentoring military helicopter pilots on how to transfer into the civilian world.

Happy Flying,

Justin

Transcript

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0:00.0	Episode 59 of the pilot the pilot podcast takes off now.
0:05.0	My name is Jean Reynolds and I've been a professional helicopter pilot now for about 20 years.
0:16.2	What is going on, A.V Nation and welcome back to the Pilot
0:19.2	Podcast.
0:20.2	My name is Justin and I am your host.
0:22.3	Today is episode number 59 featuring helicopter pilot,
0:25.6	Gene Reynolds. As most of you know, I know absolutely nothing when it comes to helicopters and I felt
0:31.0	like it was time to have another helicopter pilot on.
0:33.5	So when Jean reached out saying that he would love to come in the podcast, I hit him up immediately
0:37.8	and we had to make it work.
0:39.9	Gene is an extraordinary helicopter pilot.
0:42.6	He has flown civilian helicopter.
0:44.5	He's flown military helicopters
0:46.5	and he's also flown special ops in the military.
0:48.7	So I mean, he has pretty much done it all.
0:51.0	I'm very excited for you guys to hear Gene's story and it's one that I'm just
0:54.4	very honored to be able to tell and very honored that he was able to share it with us.
0:58.0	Ava Nation, if you enjoyed today's episode, please leave us a review on iTunes.
1:01.6	You can check our Instagram out at PILOT the pilot.
1:04.1	Also, peep the bio.
1:05.6	There's a link in the bio for the shop for a limited time
1:07.8	we're selling key chains, stickers, hats, and shirts.
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