Randy Witt: X-Plane

Pilot to Pilot - Aviation Podcast

Justin Siems

Leisure, Hobbies, Business, Aviation, Careers

4.9 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 21 August 2018

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Pilot to Pilot Podcast Episode 40 With Randy Witt.

What is going on Avination, and welcome back to the Pilot to Pilot podcast. Today, I am talking with X-Planes very own Randy Witt.

Some of the things Randy and I talk about are

When Randy knew he wanted to be a pilot
How he started flying in High School
When he bought his first aircraft
Any issues Randy had with his training.
Why his training was sometimes one step forward two steps back.
How a high school kid was playing Flight Simulator and thought I could do better.
How X-Plane came to be today.
How all types of pilots use X-Plane for fun or for training
Whatever happened to Flight Simulator?
How X-Plane went from the competition to the Top dog
How X-Plane is working on having 3d visuals for every public-use airport on the PLANET.
What to look for when buying an airplane.
Randy Witt’s three steps to buying an airplane.
Why Randy started a 135 Charter company.
How Randy has done a lot in his aviation career.
What it is like to run a 135 company.
How to determine whether or not you should rent or buy an airplane.
How X-Plane is more than a game.
Companies from all over the world use X-Plane to predict how new airplanes are going to fly
What the future of X-Plane will be.
How X-Plane is going to change the flight training world.

Avination, thank you for listening to today's episode. If you enjoyed it, please let me know! Email me at [email protected]or reach out to me on Instagram @pilottopilot. Also, make sure to check out the Pilot to Pilot patreon page.

Happy Flying,

Justin

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0:00.0	Episode 40 of the Pilot, the Pilot Podcast, takes off now.
0:05.0	Hello, my name is Randy Witt. I work with Austin Meyer over at Laminar
0:16.2	Research where the authors that that author the X-Plane
0:19.6	flight simulator program.
0:21.6	What is going on aviation and welcome? Flight Simulator Program.
0:22.8	What is going on, Avi Nation, and welcome back to the Pilot The Pilot Podcast.
0:26.8	My name is Justin, and I am your host.
0:29.3	Today I'm talking with Randy Witt.
0:31.6	Randy currently works with Explane, and as some of you might know X-Plane
0:34.5	is the best option for flight simulator out there. I know back in my day I used to play
0:38.8	Microsoft flight simulator but that seems to be no more and we got to talk about talk about that load on the podcast, how X-Plane went from being kind of like the
0:45.8	little brother and then now they're the top dog.
0:48.3	They're the go-to for flight simulator.
0:51.3	Some of the things that we talk about in today's episode with Randy
0:53.7	are how Randy knew at an early age that he wanted to be a pilot. Randy tells us the
0:58.9	three steps to buying an airplane. How and why Randy started a 135 charter company, how X-Plane went from
1:05.6	being the little dog to the top dog, how X-Plane is working on having 3D visuals for every
1:11.1	public use airport in the world and what it is like to run a 135
1:15.9	company.
1:16.9	Avi Nation I hope you enjoyed today's episode as much as I enjoyed talking with
1:20.0	Randy if you do like today's episode please leave us a review on iTunes. We're getting
1:23.8	close to 200. I believe last time I looked it was 180. So we got 20 more to 200 and that is our
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