John Zimmerman: Sporty's Pilot Shop

Pilot to Pilot - Aviation Podcast

Justin Siems

Leisure, Hobbies, Business, Aviation, Careers

4.9 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 4 June 2019

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

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?

Thank you for listening to today's episode, please leave Pilot to Pilot a review on iTunes, and make sure to check out our Patreon!

Happy Flying,

Justin

Transcript

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0:00.0	Episode 62 of the pilot the pilot podcast takes off now.
0:04.0	I'm John Zimmerman, Vice President at Sporties Pilot Shop.
0:10.0	What is going on, Navy Nation?
0:12.0	Welcome back to episode number 62 of the
0:14.7	pilot the pilot podcast. My name is Justin Seams and I am your host. As you heard in the
0:18.8	intro today, we are talking with John Zimmerman. John is currently the vice president of Sporties pilot shop and John has a
0:25.2	great story that starts off with him just emailing the owner of Sporties me like hey I want a
0:29.8	job and guess what he got the job and he is still there today.
0:33.0	John has a great story and I really look forward to you guys hearing it today
0:36.0	and I really want to know what you guys think.
0:38.0	Let me know what you think of the podcast. You can leave us review on iTunes.
0:40.0	You can check out our Instagram at Pilots Pilot,
0:43.2	Twitter at Pilots Pilot.
0:44.8	And please check out our Patreon page,
0:46.2	Patreon.com slash Pilots Pilot.
0:48.6	Aviation, I am going to be at Oshkosh this year.
0:51.2	I will be there the 24th through the 26th. If you guys want to meet up, let me know. We'll try to figure out a place that we can meet up or we can have a quick meet up at a booth or maybe we can do some fun things together. So let me know if you're going to Oshkosh.
1:03.1	I would love to meet all of you guys, all of the Avi Nation,
1:05.7	and make sure you get some stickers and some swag
1:08.4	so other people can see you as well.
1:10.1	Avi Nation, I don't want to keep you any longer.
1:12.0	So without further ado, here's John Zimmerman.
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