147 episodes

An Aviation podcast about soaring with sailplanes. Adventures in soaring with your host Chuck. Join us for each episode to hear whats next ! Talk with you soon on Soaring The Sky !

Soaring the sky a glider pilot‘s Podcast Chuck Fulton

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    • 4.8 • 53 Ratings

An Aviation podcast about soaring with sailplanes. Adventures in soaring with your host Chuck. Join us for each episode to hear whats next ! Talk with you soon on Soaring The Sky !

    145: Eagle Eyes, Australian Skies & the PW5

    145: Eagle Eyes, Australian Skies & the PW5

    Barbora has just returned from Australia and joins Chuck to talk about wave Camp and the Worlds in Narromine. Later in the episode we chat with Markus in Germany to talk about what happened when he got bored during Covid. He will share his soaring journey with us and what he is planning later this year to help grow the soaring community. 
    Sergio the Soaring Master continues his segment on the history of the PW5 part 2 titled, "Dream vs Reality".  Join us now for this exciting episode on Soaring The Sky!
     
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    • 56 min
    144: Extraterrestrial Soaring: Max Fabricius Interview & WGC 2023 Update

    144: Extraterrestrial Soaring: Max Fabricius Interview & WGC 2023 Update

    Today we first join Barbora, The Gliding Junkie at The 37th FAI World Gliding Championships in Narromine, New South Wales Australia. Chuck will then be talking with our new guest pilot Max Fabricius in Germany as he shares his soaring journey with us as well as his very interesting day job as an Astronomer.    
    Later on this episode we join Sergio, The Soaring Master for a new segment about the tragic story of the world Class and the PW5. Join us now for all this and more for episode 144 here on Soaring The Sky! 
     

    • 1 hr 3 min
    143: Behind The Art Of Gliding with Simon Lemmerer

    143: Behind The Art Of Gliding with Simon Lemmerer

    On this episode we first join Barbora, our co-host as she is in the middle of wave camp in the Czech Republic. We then head to Austria to chat with glider pilot and author Simon Lemmerer! He will be sharing his aviation journey and adventures with us as well as taking us behind the scenes of his new book , The Art of Gliding.  This book is sure to be a real treat for the soaring community! With stories from him as well as other pilots and packed with Pictures and lessons to be learned. Don't miss this exciting interview!
    Sergio The soaring Master returns to us on this episode as he brings us a new segment titled "Where We are Heading" 
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    • 44 min
    142: Soaring To The Podium In Spain: 2023 Woman’s World’s Standard Class Champion Barbora Moravcova

    142: Soaring To The Podium In Spain: 2023 Woman’s World’s Standard Class Champion Barbora Moravcova

    On this episode Barbora shares her story flying and competing in Spain as she joins the Worlds top glider pilots to fly and soar thousands of Kilometers in hopes to become the next world champion. Join us now as Barbora jumps in her LS8 and soars through the many task of this amazing competition.
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    • 33 min
    141: Perlan II Back In Argentina: Reaching for 91,000 Feet

    141: Perlan II Back In Argentina: Reaching for 91,000 Feet

    Join Chuck & Barbora as they chat with Miguel Iturmendi, one of the pilots for an update on Perlan II now in Argentina. We will Also find out how you can join them live inside and outside the cockpit as they reach for 91,000 feet and a new world record! All this and more now on episode 141 of soaring the sky!
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    • 33 min
    140: Flying with your feet: Sara Stearns story

    140: Flying with your feet: Sara Stearns story

    On this episode of the podcast Barbora, aka the Gliding Junkie joins Chuck to chat about what she has been up to and welcome our new guest pilot Sara Stearns! Sara loves to soar and has been in the aviation community for years. She recently retired after flying helicopters for 46 years! She has some amazing adventures to share with us and talks about how she survived all those years in the air. Sara will also talk about her soaring journey and how helicopters and gliders have more in common then you might think. 
     
    Sergio The Soaring Master returns on this episode to discuss inflight fatigue and what we can do to fight it. Join us now for another aviation adventure here on Soaring The Sky! 
     
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    • 1 hr 12 min

Customer Reviews

4.8 out of 5
53 Ratings

53 Ratings

Hamster J ,

Great podcast about gliding!

Really enjoy the variety of guest and stories. Also look forward to the soaring master segments. It makes my day when a new episode shows up in my feed.

Oday26 ,

Great podcast!

I’m an airline pilot with a glider back ground. I haven’t flown a glider in almost 20 years. This podcast has really brought me back and has me considering get back involved with the SSA.

Kagen Teets ,

Great podcast !

Awesome podcast, got to meet him as well and he was very nice and was awesome to sit down and talk with ! Definitely recommend the podcast to anyone !

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