Patrick Pearce: Founder of @insta.plane

Pilot to Pilot - Aviation Podcast

Justin Siems

Leisure, Hobbies, Business, Aviation, Careers

4.9 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2017

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

What is going on #Avination?! In today’s episode, we talk with Patrick Pearce. Patrick is the founder of the popular Instagram aviation page @insta.plane, current private pilot, and is just now starting his first year of college. Patrick has accomplished a lot since catching the aviation bug. In today’s episode, we talk about.

How Patrick caught the aviation bug
A time his flight instructor saved his life
Why he created @insta.plane
Why he switched flight schools in the middle of his training.
The secret to being reposted by @insta.plane
And much, much more.

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0:00.0	Episode 1 of the Pilot to Pilot Podcast takes off now.
0:07.0	Hello Aviators and welcome to episode 1 of the Pilot to Pilot Podcast.
0:11.0	My name is Justin Seams and thank you for tuning in today for this episode.
0:14.8	Today we are talking with Patrick Pierce, the founder of the popular Instagram page
0:18.8	Instaplane. Instaplane currently has a hundred and seventy eight000 followers and is constantly growing.
0:24.8	They post some of the best aviation photographs and videos on the internet.
0:28.3	It is truly a place to go to be encouraged and inspired.
0:31.6	Today throughout this episode we'll find out how Patrick
0:34.3	caught the aviation bug a time his flight instructor saved his life, why he made
0:38.6	Insta plane, what the future of Insta plane is and most importantly the secret to being reposted on his page
0:45.2	and without further ado here's Patrick Pierce.
0:50.3	Hey Patrick how you doing thanks for joining the Pilot the Pilot podcast.
0:54.0	Good, how are you? Thank you for having me.
0:56.0	No problem, man. I'm glad we could finally get this figured out.
0:59.0	Yeah, absolutely. It's been a while, but I'm excited to get started to do this.
1:02.0	Yeah, for sure. So tell me about your story a little bit.
1:05.4	Tell me about why you chose to be a pilot,
1:07.7	like why the pilot life was for you.
1:10.5	Okay, so in my family, I have no aviation background and I know a lot of people who become pilots,
1:17.0	either their dad was a pilot or their grandpa was, and I just didn't, I had no aviation background whatsoever, and so when I was in eighth grade my friend who went to my school
1:26.5	her dad had a Columbia 400 aircraft out of the local airport here in Arizona and she was like
1:31.7	hey Patrick do you want to go up with me we can fly up north to this town of a small town of Payson and I was like sure absolutely like I'll 100% take a free airplane ride, right?
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