Kerry McCauley, ferry pilot

The Adventure Stache

Payson McElveen

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4.9 • 727 Ratings

🗓️ 24 November 2020

⏱️ 81 minutes

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Summary

Kerry McCauley is a ferry pilot who delivers planes around the world, usually on routes that not many other pilots are willing to take. The planes are often too small to safely make the journeys, but need to be delivered to an owner across the world and can’t be transported any other way. In this job, Kerry has flown nearly fifty different kinds of planes to sixty countries. He also owns a skydiving school and flies corporate jets. In this episode, he tells Payson some of his most harrowing a...

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0:00.0	I'm a sick and twisted individual.
0:02.4	I love those things when they happen.
0:05.8	If I have an emergency and I make it, I'm jazzed.
0:10.0	Because I practice for this, I plan for it.
0:13.3	That's why I'm there.
0:14.6	I mean, anybody can fly a plane on a beautiful sunny day.
0:17.8	You know, it doesn't take anybody with any special skill to do that.
0:20.6	It takes a really
0:21.6	good pilot to come through when the chips are down. It's showtime, everybody. Showtime!
0:29.8	You've been living in a dream world, Neil. This is the world as it exists today.
0:38.3	Life moves pretty fast.
0:40.7	You don't stop and look around once in a while.
0:43.3	You could miss it.
0:46.3	Listen, we're talking about practice.
0:49.6	Repeat on the dude's room.
0:51.1	Donnie, you're out of your element.
0:53.4	I see, you think this has nothing to do with you.
0:57.4	Don't ever trash talk black Jesus.
1:02.1	This is the Adventure Stash with Payson McAlvin.
1:06.5	Hello and welcome back to the show.
1:08.4	This week, we are sticking with the aviation theme.
1:12.4	Like many of us, Kerry McCauley had a fascination with planes growing up. But unlike most of us,
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