Joshua Maddox: Seaplane Pilot

Pilot to Pilot - Aviation Podcast

Justin Siems

Leisure, Hobbies, Business, Aviation, Careers

4.9 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2018

⏱️ 61 minutes

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Summary

Avination, welcome back to the Pilot to Pilot podcast episode 48. In this episode, I am talking with Joshua Maddox. Joshua and I have a few things in common, we both flew aerial survey instead of becoming a CFI and we were both freight dogs. Joshua and I flew together in Omaha, Nebraska flying Amazon packages and dodging thunderstorms.

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Happy Flying,

Justin

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0:00.0	Episode 48 of the Pilot, the Pilot Podcast takes off now.
0:05.0	My name is Joshua Maddox.
0:10.0	I'm currently a seaplane captain for Tropical Ocean Airways flying an amphibious
0:15.9	uh... sesame care man.
0:17.6	aviation what is going on welcome back to the pilot the pilot podcast my name is
0:21.9	Justin and I am your host. Today I am
0:24.8	talking with Joshua Maddox and as you heard in his introduction he is a sea
0:28.4	plane pilot for Tropic Ocean Airways. I've never had a seaplane pilot on here before and I'm so
0:34.2	excited for you guys to hear a story and Josh just has a great story about where he
0:37.8	came from how he went to a community college to do training 61 style then he
0:42.1	transferred Embry Riddle so he has both
0:44.1	knowledge aspects of either 141 and 61 and then we also find out what Embry
0:48.8	Riddle is like it's the first person I've talked to that has gone to Embry
0:51.6	Riddle we don't get too deep into what Embry Riddle is as we were a bit on a time crunch.
0:55.2	We can't have three hour episodes here. But we do have some great information here.
0:59.6	Joshua and I actually flew together in Omaha, Nebraska flying UPS.
1:03.7	So you hear some pretty interesting stories about us chasing thunderstorms or
1:07.5	trying to meet thunderstorms in.
1:09.1	Avi Nation, some of the things Josh and I specifically talked about, or why Josh decided to become a seaplane pilot.
1:15.2	What a day in the life of a seaplane pilot entails?
1:18.2	How to become a seaplane pilot?
1:20.2	Find out the things pilot struggle with when making the switch from fixed gear to seaplane,
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