Fastest Way To Wreck An Airplane - Adam Grenda's Story
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- Опубликовано: 26 окт 2024
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In this episode of the Coffee in a Hangar Podcast, we're excited to welcome Adam Grenda, a seasoned pilot, big game hunter, and trapper hailing from King Salmon, Alaska. Adam dives deep into his unique journey of learning to fly in the unforgiving Alaskan wilderness, all under the mentorship of legendary bush pilot Ron Hayes. Adam reflects on the impact Ron had on his career, offering valuable lessons from the heart of Alaska.
We explore everything from Adam’s terrifying near-crash incident to his lifelong passion for hunting, which began at a young age. His stories perfectly capture the blend of adventure, danger, and the rugged beauty that defines life as a bush pilot in Alaska. Adam shares his experiences flying the iconic Super Cub, the lessons he learned through trial and error in the air, and how those early hunting experiences paved the way for his guiding career in Alaska’s tough terrain.
Adam also shares in detail his harrowing Super Cub crash at age 20, recounting how, as a young pilot with just 3 hours of tailwheel experience, he made some split-second decisions that resulted in a total wreck. He candidly talks about the mistakes he made during that flight, including ignoring basic safety measures and overconfidence in his abilities. Yet, from that near-fatal accident, Adam emerged with hard-earned wisdom that shaped the rest of his career, teaching him the importance of critical decision-making, especially in the erratic conditions of bush flying.
Through the ups and downs of his flying career, Adam reflects on the importance of humility, proficiency, and the constant drive to improve. His story is not just about surviving, but thriving in one of the most challenging environments on Earth.
Grab a cup of something, sit back, and enjoy these epic tales of bush flying, and true backcountry adventure, straight from the Alaskan frontier.
Airplanes In The Wild is the absolute best channel! you should have way more subscribers! The only channel i can sit and listen to two people just talking for over an hour. Your doing an Awesome job!
Wow thank you. The followers will come.
Love this podcast! Adam is hilarious and has a lot of wisdom!
Best interview ever!
Great video! Thoroughly enjoyed it. I have watched Adam's videos but didn't know his back story. Quite an adventurous life.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Just great! Uninhibited truth with humor. Honest lessons delivered with a very effective teaching method! Good job to the both of you...
Glad you enjoyed it!
War stories are how we learn from each other. You can't allow ego stop you from sharing your "always better to be lucky than good" stories.
Great interview, makes me wish I had learned to fly when I was his age. Lots of great stories and hard earned advice.
Another great one, I have watched a lot of Adam and Tana’s videos. Keep up the great work
Thanks for watching
Great interview with some critical takeaways. Thanks.
Great interview Adam your a lucky man and have life pretty figured out!
I’m an old guy with a couple thousand hours in Cubs and I enjoyed listening to this good ol boy, I miss the Cubs but the 180 w/310 hp is my ride of choice now
Another great interview!
Thank you for making these. I try to share it with folks when I can.
Thanks for that!
Great episode. Thank you
Learned a lot! Thank you! 🙏
Back in 2009 I was at the Alaska rainbow Lodge. I remember being in a Beaver with Ron Hayes and a young kid who was up for the summer. Ron was teaching him to fly. I remember thinking what a life that kid is going to have in Alaska.
Watching this, I am that kid was Adam Grenda.
I'm finishing up a Supercub right now and when I'm done I'm heading to Alaska. Maybe I'll get the chance to ask Adam in person if that was him back in 2009. Even better, maybe I can get some lessons
I was there in 2010.
Great lessons, thanks for sharing
Thanks for watching
Awesome episode. What an interesting (and funny) guy!
Ken Strickler , needs to be interviewed, maybe together with senor Hayes...
I love your content
it`s funny that someone used the guest beard as a wallpaper
The landing is the report card of the approach.
👍
The downwind turn myth persists. It’s an optical illusion. The plane acts exactly the same in an upwind turn. It’s just that the terrain appears to be moving by more or less slowly which causes pilots to pull.
Expect for the tailwind.....and loss of airspeed over the wings which causes the plane to sink, thus the intentional or unintentional pulling back of the stick, vs turning upwind and gaining the additional airspeed over the wings, which increases lift and the ability to climb...etc.
@@HookedOnUtah That’s the myth. Your plane doesn’t know anything about tail winds or headwinds. It is flying in a moving column of air. The winds only affect ground speed.
Finally, the myth dies….
@@DouglasDC3AK I know, I was bored. Sorry
Except for inertia & wind gradient, especially when flying low and slow.
His definition of a big moose and my definition of a big moose are two different things! That was not a big moose! 😂
why in the world did you throw away the carbon fiber paddle dude ,you might need that
I know a lot of people want to have this censored, but I don't think it's a good idea. Maybe adding a "foul language" warning or something like that. But to me this is a grizzly man, talking about his real-life experiences; it would feel disingenuous to begin censoring it in my opinion. Regardless, I'll watch each episode!
Thanks I totally get what you are saying and that is why I chose to post it in its raw form.
Swiss cheese model of risk assessment. Check it out.
3:15 - 4:30 Normalization of deviance. 4:22 "but it was normal".
I get what you’re saying. Unfortunately in that part of Alaska with paying clients all the lodges would go out of business if they didn’t operate that way. The clients would never fish and wouldn’t come back next year.
Normal in Alaska or any bush flying is going to be high risk. And in this case high risk means crashes are inevitable, simply due to all the factors and statistical probability.
When you interview Adam again you should wear a giant fake beard 😮 , i saw your knife in the tire vid, surprisingly thin tread , did you change to a thicker tread ?
Love your Chanel and these great interviews. One request though, could you beep out the swear words.
I have had enough people ask that I will probably do that next time.
These are men telling mens stories in the english language.
It's always seemed strange, a group of people demands everyone else censor themselves to cater to their own sensibilities. They go as far as to mandate it by legislature, and expunge it from the dictionary, as if it does not exist. This comes across as something ordered by the Pope for the peasants of the Dark Ages. Maybe we march on order for a crusade to Jerusalem next? Just like the good 'ol days, before the word Fuck.
His wife was right.
Wives are always right. And the sky is blue
Who has 25,000 hrs? 😂
A lot of people.
@@AirplanesInTheWild In they're 20's? 😂
No. What are you talking about? I think you must be confused or taking something out of context.
They were referring to the guest's flight instructor.
Love your content but I can’t have my grandkids watch it with me because of all the F words.
Sorry about that. Next time I think what we are going to do is beep out the cus words on RUclips and leave them on Spotify and other platforms. That way if you want to hear the raw form there is still somewhere to hear it
Another GREAT interview!
Thanks
Awesome episode. What an interesting (and funny) guy!
Thanks for watching