How Ferry Pilot Margrit Waltz Completed 900 Ocean Crossings
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- Опубликовано: 22 май 2021
- When an airplane has to be moved across a continent or an entire ocean, ferry pilots have to be ready to fly on a moment's notice. And ferry pilot Margrit Waltz has done a lot of that flying, recently completing her 900 over-ocean crossing in a factory new TBM 940, one of the fastest single-engine aircraft in the world. She tells AVweb's Paul Bertorelli how she did it.
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Golden... bravo Margrit... (I'll be using this video to inspire my 7 year old daughter into aviation)
Please don't they have their own decisions try asking her what she really wants before you end up putting her on a life trauma
@@alicesmith1016 oh shut up you feminist, i dont remember you having his child!
I used to be a flight operations officer at one of the FBOs Margrit always stopped at. She is the real deal, was always a wonderful customer, and just a nice person to meet every time. We would go out of our way to do anything we could to make her stay as good as possible.
Helping her with decoding weather data and satellite pictures was more her helping me, at least for the first few years. Extremely knowledgeable, helpful, courteous, professional, humble, and just simply nice.
She is great what wonderful experience. As a retired airline pilot her flying is a lot more exciting than me sitting in Boeing aircraft with the auto pilot and being fed every few hours with a crew rest station on board. Well done I salute her and her experience as it is really gutsy to fly single engine and cross oceans 900 times. Fantastic interview thank you for sharing.
"They had enough people lying about the weather without an accent." Ouch! 😂
Yeah! When I heard her say that, I looked at the 16 minute video length and thought "I'm sure this video is going to be too short"
The world is burning up, doncha know. Her flights are filled with terror now that the CO2 concentration has elevated to such levels.
Hahahahaha awesome!!
She is telling the truth! 🙂
🤣🤣🤣
What vast wealth of knowledge Margrit has. I could listen to her for hours.
Nice Matterhorn pic for your profile.
I had the priviledge of being a fellow classmate during Margrit's Citation Mustang initial at Flightsafety. We were sim partners. She's an absolutely amazing pilot and one of the coolest people I know.
I'm impressed! Over my 37 years flying internationally in the US Air Force and as an airline pilot, I doubt have half that many crossings.
Her own instructor was Erich Hartmann, a WW2-fighter-ace, and she herself has decades of experience and hundreds of ocean crossing ferries. It doesn't get any better than that!
What a pleasure to hear her story ! WHY SO SHORT ???? About the journalist ..... the best by far deserves a RUclips medal !
Magrit: 900 ocean crossings in TBM 940
Stevo Kinevo: write that down! write that down!
There’s a book overdue if ever there was one.
Yeah!
There are a couple out there. I believe the "Taking Off" channel did an interview with a ferry pilot that has one. He also had a very interesting story. Hope that helped? 8) --gary
I believe she’s already wrote one.
@@gtr1952 This is the video from Taking Off about ferry pilots ruclips.net/video/7agC1qu6huo/видео.html
Maggie is the best - She allways puts a smile on my face, when i hear her comming up on our freqz here in Greenland. I´ve known her since 2002 when i manned the TWR in BGBW/Narsarsuaq. back then, she had more tech stops in Greenland.
Air Force, then airline regional work, then instructor and ferry pilot for a manufacturer... being the aircraft bigger, numbers are smaller and intercontinental deliveries are a smaller percentage of the total. But the job is so great that I would consider retiring from my current one and transitioning to single pilot certified deliveries, to continue doing it even past 65! Congratulations on this impressive career!
OMG!
What a pilot.
Just found out that when she took her private pilot license at the age of 18, her instructor was Erich Hartmann.
I know the name well! Hartmann was baaaaad assed and never relented under Soviet imprisonment.
@@silasmarner7586 "Holt Hartmann vom Himmel" is a book.
That’s amazing!
Please write a book about your incredible knowledge of ferrying and other aspects of flying
Congrats on the flights. Don't meet many people like you anymore. Stay awesome Margrit!!
fantastic interview. and what a personality! I loved every second!
What was a bit missed was that these legs are in the 3,000 - 4,000 mile range. It's one thing to do 900 flights, it another to 900 flights of 3,000+! We are talking 3 million miles (and likely much more) in a SINGLE ENGINE plane! Hahaha.. I laugh for joy because this women must LOVE LOVE her job.
Even the customers don't want to sit in a plane for that long!
The other thing - ferry flights in winter - just taxing around would be stressful with the wind speeds they get on the route that was being described. And a few of those landings have got to have had some unpleasant cross wind components.
A great vote of confidence in the plane. If you are a customer she probably does a pretty thorough pre-flight, knows what to look for, and by the time you get it to hop around in she may have taken it up and down through a lot of weather and altitude and duration and everything else that would shake out the bugs. I was in another field where a lot of bugs really did show up in the first 20 hrs of use of the product.
Metric . . .
@@TRPGpilot /5 *8
Interesting and impressive. I've made a lot of ocean crossings myself but I had four engines. I could listen to this lady talk for hours on this subject.
Fantastic interview! When you get to talk with someone that interesting, you just ask questions and stand back and listen, let the spotlight be on the guest, and that's just what Paul did here. Perfect. I don't remember hearing from a pilot who was so modest about what they've done. Would love to hear more stories from Margrit.
I remember when my aeroclub club took delivery of a new MK3 Piper warrior trainer fixed gear fixed prop with a big bladder tank 6cld 300hp to Alice springs Australia....... now that I'm older I have a clue how long a trip that would have been and this amazing woman what a pilot.
Thanks so much for this interview, wow. What a role model.
Great story......especially knowing she was trained by Eric Hartmann - who shot down 550 Russian aircraft! I followed the same routes like her a few years back doing the same type of flying. I wrote an interesting book on my true personal aviation travels .....but it was dismissed as imagination! Better to remain incognito!
Awesome inspiring interview 👍 Thanks Margrit!
Great talk Margrit, nice to see you again even on a youtube only.
she is so Kind so smart i respect her a lot for me the Queen of Aviation god bless her...
What an incredible work ethic. On top of that, she is obviously a very skilled pilot.
What an amazing woman and outstanding aviator! A great interview on both sides of the microphone. I certainly hope she writes a book in the near future
What an absolute legend Margrit Waltz is! Thank you for this wonderful interview.
What a great interview - one of the best I have ever heard. I bet Margrit Waltz has a lot of great stories! I appreciate her excitement and love of flying which came through so clearly in the interview!
That is wonderful what she has done in her life.
Great subject with a wonderful interview. Yet another AVweb homerun!
900 nearly maiden (many or most of them, presumably) flights?! That is, hundreds of flights of units that, while tested and legally certified, were not so to speak fully battle proven - until SHE tests that theory -- and on a trans-oceanic!! Once might be a rare lifetime accomplishment. Twice, yeah. Ten - balls of steel. Hundreds??
Chuck Yeager must be giggling in admiration.
Wonder how many hours are on each aircraft before the factory hands it over
GREAT interview, thanks, Paul!
What a great interview. Margrit sounds like a terrific person, I would love to sit down & have a chat with her
AVWeb ALWAYS has the most intriguing and capturing content! Keep up the good work!
Brilliant Lady, awesome interview!
Thanks Paul. What a wonderful story.
Great video, always a pleasure to watch an interviewer who lets someone tell their story - and what a story Margrit has!
Great interview. Well done both of you. Heroes do regular jobs every day. She’s a hero.
Great interview! She is impressive and I’m sure full of great flight stories.
what an amazing interview.
Great interview with a brilliant woman. Thanks Paul.
Great job, Paul! You asked all the right questions. Very interesting
So humble and modest! Wonderful, impressive, and for sure a movie and book in the making.
What a fantastic insight, thanks for bringing Margrit on :)
Go Girl. Another great interview Paul.
Outstanding! What an episode! Thank you so much for this and danke to Magrit. :-)
Fantastic interview. Great guest, interesting subject.
Great interview! I’ve always watched your adventures. I don’t think I’ll ever get to 900 ocean crossings in small aircraft, but I can relate with flying single engine pistons over the North Atlantic!
Thanks Margrit. Ferry pilots we need your stories on RUclips!
Awesome interview all the way around, probably one, if not "Thee" favorite interview I've watched of Paul's work.
Margrit is a wonderful yet humble and straightforward inspiration to pilots young or old and of any gender - BRAVO!
Great interview
Fascinating. Thanks to you both.
What an amazing accomplishment. Well done.
God bless
Great interview ! What a role model !!!
Great interview, what an amazing Lady. 900 crossings!😮😮
Amazing lady, great interview.
What an amazing person! Awesome experience, making for an awesome video. Thank you!
What an amazing career! Congrats to her!
AWESOME! Such a wonderful ferry pilot and inspiration !
Frau Waltz, alle Achtung. Sie sind eine sehr beeindrückende Pilotin.
Fantastic interview.
Great interview. Thanks.
She’s awesome 👩✈️ , great interview
Amazing interview Paul! Margarit is certainly quite the badass. 210kt headwinds. I cannot even begin to fathom this.
Amazing pilot and so modest
Absolutely inspiring interview. If I didn't have to put my family ahead of my career 100% of the time I'd be doing everything in my power to get into ferry flying. The random and spontaneous nature of the work suits my brain.
Wonderful interview and very impressive pilot. Her career is so much more exciting as mine.
Thank you for posting. Very good show
Awesome interview
Such an amazing young woman!! Stay safe!!
Absolutely spectacular. Kudos to not only her aviation savvy but also to her ADM producing 900+ crossings over nearly 50 year span. Would love any opportunity to fly her right seat.
What a wonderful, marvelous woman. She is more than a role model for young women everywhere but a role model for all, anywhere. Excellent interview Paul where you respectfully listen once you ask a question. Very nice. Another great video.
Great interview....
Some might not agree but after 900 I think we need to put Waltz right in there with Lindbergh and Earhart.
Very impressive record and experience!
👍☑️ Great interview Paul, what a storied life she has lead.
Fantastic woman and fantastic interview.
Great video. Brilliant pilot!
I met her in Tarbes 2 years ago, nice lady, I think she said she flew a Cessna 172 at low altitude from like Los Angeles or San Fran. Wow.
What a job! Awesome!
Great story.....thanks for sharing.....
Brave, adventurous...I am in love in a pilot kind of way!
Wow what a fascinating story ....the Arctic Ocean is no place to have to ditch .... !
I am thoroughly amazed! I have been studying the TBM for several weeks now.
Nice plane very stable
Congratulations. That really is an awesome accomplishment.
True Queen of the skies ! Very interesting - thanks 👍
That is so cool. Congratulations Margrit. Hope I can do ONE from Montreal to Le Bourget one day in my PA-32 ....bucket list !!
This was too short of an interview, she was a delight
Great interview!!!!!!!
She's amazing!
Fascinating video
What an engaging video. Loved it!
Hats off!
Amazing woman, amazing interview
Amazing video interview !
Amazing achievement, amazing lady.
Impressive stuff. Well done
What a wonderful lady. I was a very average private pilot and used to fantasise about being a ferry pilot, my dream job.
Nice story - thanks for sharing!
Super interesting interview!