Skywagon Podcast 2 with Don the Camera Guy
2024 ж. 23 Мам.
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Meet Don the Camera Guy. We're aware of the out of focus camera and will get that resolved. Thank you for your patience as we get out Podcast game on point!
Meet Don the Camera Guy. We're aware of the out of focus camera and will get that resolved. Thank you for your patience as we get out Podcast game on point!
"Flys as advertised" should be the new skywagon catch phrase. Great interview! Don is hilarious. Unfortunate that hes dealing with the medical stuff but I bet he flies as advertised.
We'll do a chat on the medical stuff when he gets the medical back. The process.
I would have never guessed Don was 61. He looks great for his age. I hope he’s able to get his medical back soon. Great interview. Thanks!
Thanks, Steve! I think it's 'cause my bald head hides all the grey hair! - Don the Camera Guy.
Another great episode Mark. 🛩
Aerial refuling: " Other guys got sick, I thought it was a gas!" 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Like an "E" ride at Disneyland. - Don the Camera Guy
I thoroughly enjoyed this podcast. Of course, I'm biased as I'm married to Don!
Loving the podcasts! Would love to see Juan Browne on one soon.
We'll invite him and see what we can do.
Yes get him in the chair. Pick any topic and it will be a great podcast
Next week.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 Hahaha guessed you might have it lined up. 🤣
Don, I sincerely hope you get your Medical back. You’re an uncommon and amazingly wonderful person!
Not sure what I did to deserve such accolades, but thank you for the compliment and well wishes! - Don the Camera Guy
Thanks for this; you’re both fantastic. I’m also fighting the FAA at 54 over a medication. Good enough to be a career firefighter, but not in the fed’s eyes. In the meantime, I’ll keep appreciating the work you guys do. Thank you!
Thank you Good luck.
Great interview! Usually never get to hear from the cameraman - what a great career path!
I thought it would be interesting.
If I had the opportunity to do it all again, I would. Thanks for the compliment! - Don the Camera Guy
Mark, it has been really great seeing and hearing you and Don on your podcast. And, I'm really annoyed at the FAA about Don's situation. I'm not allowed to get my PPL or even fly an autograph because I've had a head injury. Fraser , Edinburgh, UK.
Hello Mark, thank you for your hard work, God bless you Chuck Brown
You are very welcome
Cool having "the camera guy" on . Great aviation podcast going on here
If I can do it, anyone can do it. It was out of my comfort zone, but what do pilots like to talk about? Airplanes and flying! So, if you have an interesting story, come join us and tell everyone else about it! - Don the Camera Guy.
You guys are soooo right about having to like what you are selling. Back in 1980 I was the World's Second Least Successful Life Insurance Salesman. There was perhaps someone else who was worse than me but I never knew them. I'd been successful working for a hobby shop chain before that - wonderful, loved it! - but selling insurance ? NOOOOOO! Worst job I ever had. I earned nearly £40 over the entire 12 weeks and then changed to my present career and 44 years later, never looked back. These podcasts of yours are great entertainment! Listening to both of you shows why your films are of such high broadcast quality and it's great to see the chap behind the camera.
I was worse than you! They sent me out with their highest producer and he lied to the client to make the sale. I couldn't do it. I did not make a single insurance sale. Not one. Hated every minute of that job. Like you, moved on and never looked back. Thanks for the compliments on the videos! - Don the Camera Guy.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 yes that's why I was so hopeless! I couldn't bring myself to lie to the clients - within a few weeks of joining the company I realised that they were running a numbers game and they had basically worthless policies, when I found out that their main fund had just £1million in it: 4 payouts and they'd be bankrupt. I couldn't bring myself to stay so I packed up and left, feeling that although I'd made no money to speak of, at least I'd not sold anyone a worthless policy.
Great podcast guys✌️😊💜👍 I had an ex RAF (ex copper) loadmaster working with/for me at one time. That LM job is critical, or, as you say, the pilot can end up reversing the aeroplane into a runway. The stories he could tell (I'm too modest to repeat them here and although I've signed the OSA, I can't say more🤔😉😳😲😀😀). I lived inbetween 7 UK RAF/USAAF bases as a kid, saw most UK and US aircraft of the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. With my dad one day, in, iirc, a C150, asked one USAAF base if we could route overhead as our airstrip was right on the edge of their MATZ and a RAF one too (the whole local area required constant zonal penetration requests and lots of "not above 1000'" clearances). There wasn't much about so they gave us permission to fly overhead the airbase at about 800-1000 agl (ready for the circuit for the grass strip - which has trees at one end, a river at the other and obedient cows that required a low level pass). Bear in mind this was cold war era, and below us, taxying out to their runway was an Antonov An-124 "Ruslan", on a US base. Iirc it wasn't any time around the airshows often held there, so I've no idea what it was doing there. The runway was long enough for a shuttle landing (without giving too much away). We joked that if the strip was flooded and we couldn't get in, we could land on the wings of the 124! In many ways happier times🤔🤔 PS I love the Cessna 310 (favoured by drug runners, because of short strip performance 🤔). My dad used to fly a twin Comanche with his boss in the 1960s, I've never been in either, just flight sim'd King Airs and Barons😀😀 A Baron is thirsty too, 20 gals per hour each engine?!😲
Great story. I used to fly out of Enstone in Oxfordshire in England when USAF Upper Hayford was active with the F111's. When it closed we went over there and did touch and goes on the 13,000 ft runway. Enstone was right in under it's airspace.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 Thanks👍✌️😊 I remember the F111's, they did an espionage film with Pearce Brosnon and Micheal Cain about a thinly disguised Upper Heyford (covered in new cars now iirc). Fun landing on the rwy! Dad landed at Fairford irrc, so did one or two of his buddies, they had an invite. I used to play in bands on various US bases - like little USA each one, they treated us very well. I've landed a FW microlight on 26 North Grass at Enstone, over the "tower" and hangers etc, rough bit of grass that, would have preferred 26 hard or 26 South Grass, but I was under instruction so..... Sadly we've several GA airfields under threat here; Gloucester (Staverton), Old Sarum, Thruxton, Wellsbourne, Popham, a sad state of affairs. We lost Redlands (Swindon), which was adjacent to South Marston (Supermarine). South Marston is up for grabs as Honda have left, it would be wonderful as a regional airport. Membury is hanging on for flying clubs, schools and specialist companies. Kemble (Cotswold Airport) is doing okay, with lots of revenue streams, and royalty et al using it. DA62 (Diamond with survey kit) have been tracked surveying towns etc - often at night - the time of the Amazon drones fast approaching? 💔🤔💔😲🙄😕
We had a few "heavies" break out of the ever present and approach Enstone before adding power and going the extra three miles to Hayford back before modern avionics.
Don, I feel your pain. I'm your age and fighting the FAA for my medical as well. Post-COVID, I think the FAA closed a handful of regional flight surgeon offices and now the responsibility is on OK-city. I'm pulling for you. Mark, I enjoy these and always appreciate your make/model knowledge. One day if the medical gods allow, I'd love to visit your aircraft-carrier airport. Keep 'em coming!
"We're from the Government and we're here to help" - Ronald Regan
Keep up the good work. Not complaining!!
Thanks, will do, John!
Ha! Grandmother, bless her soul, always knew best, Don!
Good old Granny.
Thanks for your service Don, I was in the AF (nuke puke) 80-86.
Missle Field Security. Spent more time with my squad than I did with my family. But, when people thank me for my service, what I want to say in return is thank you for letting me serve! It was an honor. - Don the Camera Guy.
"We're from the FAA and we are here to stop you." Sorry to see you go through that crap. Yes, some over the counter drugs will upset your heart beat. Love the Mooney. First plane I ever flew in was a 231. I thought they were all like that. The owner was well over 6' and fit in it nicely. Fast.
I am hopeful that the FAA will find in my favor. It's been a long journey and I've been grounded since November 2022. - Don the Camera Guy
I hope they do too. Ah, 61. Just a punk kid. I think about flying every day, and I'm sure you do too. Bill, the Cadman
it's Don! So happy to (literally) see this. 8 hours "and your gatorade bottles are still full" lolol.
Always be suspicious of an orange or blue Gatorade bottle in a ferry plane if there is "lemon" in it when they land.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 I've been told survey pilots never buy lemon-lime gatorade. I will never forget that!
I can guess why.
Of course I loved watching this and seeing and hearing Don, my old C-5 squadron-mate and friend. Hoping you get cleared by the FAA real soon!
Mike! Always good to hear from you! - Don the Camera Guy
just wanted to compliment on your phenomenal work hand carving out and finishing that rifle stock. please keep. that video on here forever. nothing beats a p-38 lightning except a p51.
Thank you, I will. Strangely, that is my best performing video by a very large margin.
your welcome. ive have utilized it many times and watched it just as many. sadly I don't get to engage in the practice enough to retain all the information.@@skywagonuniversity5023
Woo hoo another one! I can’t get enough of aviation podcasts. As always, great work. Love the channel
Another today with Juan Brown.
I really start to like these podcasts of yours. So far interesting stories and personalities! Don, not just fun to listen to but also great work on the videos. I know how much work goes into them. LOL
Thanks! I appreciate the compliment! - Don the Camera Guy.
Mark and Don, enjoy the podcast but I really love the plane reviews! Please keep them coming. Nobody makes plane types and models more fun! Always learn a ton. Thanks for everything you guys do.
We're still doing the plane videos, but we need planes to video. We're just waiting for them to come in. In the meantime, we'll enjoy our conversations with other pilots or industry giants.
A Zoom interview with fellow youtuber AgentjayZ would be a nice collaberation. He's up in Fort St. John BC Canada and specializes in rebuilding jet engines for military aircraft (F-86. anything that uses the J79). On one hand, totally different audience. On the other hand - Aviation!
Good idea.
Don, sure hope you get your medical approved soon! Stuff like this is why I might consider going back to get current under sport pilot rules despite the limitations if I had a similar scenario. I understand it to not be uncommon among our age group to circumvent usually unnecessary red tape.
As I understand it, because I now have a medical condition that the FAA deems me unfit to fly with, I can't go LSA. My only option would be ultralight. But, based on all the comments from my doctors, I anticipate my medical being restored. - Don the Camera Guy.
Plus, you own a Mooney already.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 here's hoping for ya there Thumbs Up . oh yeah and another Mooney guy awesome .
I had a C-5 guy come over to my P-3, he told me our flight station was bigger, but he said my plane was a nice little airplane. I was an FE on P-3s for almost 20 years.
We carried a P-3 (wings clipped) from Crete back to the US once. I didn't think it was going to fit, but it sure did! - Don the Camera Guy.
The P3 has a huge flight deck…you could have a dance floor there! (That was my impression from an airshow cockpit tour…)
Awesome! Please keep doing these!
We will! We enjoy making them!
I have an uncle that was a commander at Dover AFB. Over 12,000 hrs pic in C-5s. 250,000lbs of fuel alone. Gross is somewhere around 900,000lbs depending on year and variant. Engines have over 50,000lbs of thrust each.
That is a lot of time in the seat. Well done!
Im so loving this content ❤
Thanks.
Don never got to how he became a video editing master...
He's self taught. Very good with computers.
The usual way. I entered into an editing dojo at an early age and learned from previous masters. After years of self-sacrifice and physical discomfort, I placed my forearms on the sacred hot pot, branding myself and showing the world I was finally ready to move on. Or, I watched a lot of KZhead videos. It was something like that. - Don the Camera Guy.
Ah, Grasshopper, now you can walk the earth and get into adventures... (kung fu/pulp fiction mixed reference). Don you replied to me in the past about video stuff, so I would say self-taught is sometimes best! @@skywagonuniversity5023
Sounds like the nicest guy we would wont to have as our arresting officer . ... I should probably ware my watch more often ...
Great stuff here!!!
Glad you like it!
Thank you, Chef. Wait ... did we just land in Hell's Kitchen?
I can see why you guys are mates. You gel really well. Shame one of you has to be behind the camera
Always a bit of a laugh.
Well, you gotta admit I have the perfect face for behind the camera action! - Don the Camera Guy
Need to show us his Mooney. Mark is a responsible adult, you guys need to take us for a sight seeing flight over NorCal. I am a retired disabled police officer, broke my neck lost my medical. I must now take a responsible adult with me to fly my own Arrow. I understand the pain, just I know there is no getting my medical back, I am trying to hold onto my drivers license.
Wow, the sound quality is much better on this one!
Last time, I botched the audio recording. This time I got it right. - Don the Camera Guy.
@@skywagonuniversity5023 Very interesting interview, Mr. Don. Thank you for your service. I hope you get your medical back soon. I am interested in finishing my pilot's license. I have a runway, windsock, and a hangar on the farm, but no airplane. Maybe someday you could ferry me a 172 to Georgia.
Sorry for the very late reply. Did not see this. I envy your set up! It's a 35 minute drive to the airport from home. And, it would be my pleasure to bring you your plane! - Don the Camera Guy.
Get rid of that Apple watch!
Except for the nagging heart monitor, it is an excellent watch!
@@skywagonuniversity5023 Get someone younger to ware it around for a few weeks and tell the doctor how you feel fine , in fact I feel like a 20 year old 🤣
@@skywagonuniversity5023I agree, yes it got you into a bit of a quandary but without it you would still be taking that allergy medicine and still having issues which could have been exacerbated by continued use. Awesome tech!