Wednesday, May 16, 2007

Email: "Captain" Matt from Missippi

Hey guys, love the podcast

My name is Matthew Nichols, 20 years old and my home field is KUOX. I start the Flight Operations program at Delta State University (KRNV) this fall.

I was lucky enough to have a family member who was a pilot, so I have around aviation my whole life and have had some interesting experiences. My grandfather bought a 172 the year I was born and took me and my two younger brothers flying in it when we were very little, and out of the three I was the only one who enjoyed it and ever since then have been the only other member of my family to be interested in aviation.

Also, over the course of the last 5 years, my grandfather has been working on his own private grass strip. He bought some land down the road from his house and shop and using basically just two small dump trucks, a bulldozer and a front end loader we tranformed this patch of woods into an nice little airstrip. Currently there are threee aircraft there, his 172, a J-3 Cub, and an ultralight (I can't remeber the make or model).

My grandfather also was friends with a man who picked up crashed airplanes for an insurance company and I was able to go with him and his crew many times to help recover these planes and was able to see the importance of remembering your training first hand, since most of these accidents amounted to pilot error. You would also have people who would think you were crazy for being so obsessed with flying and going to pick up crashed planes, but I never let it bother me.

The last notable thing I can say Ive done is back when my family when to Orlando on vacation, I went to Warbird Adventures and got to fly around in a T-6 for nearly an hour. That was an incredible experience and I reccommend it to anyone.

Well guys, keep up the good work. Fly safe.

-Matt "Captain" Nichols

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