A DPE's Best Flying Stories After 28,000 Hours
What was flying like before GPS, ForeFlight, glass cockpits, and even transponders?
In this episode of Flight Tales, host Ryan Owens sits down with legendary Louisiana pilot, former Designated Pilot Examiner Cliff Rice, whose aviation career spans more than 65 years and over 28,000 flight hours.
Cliff shares incredible firsthand stories from aviation's golden era, including:
Learning to fly in 1958
Flying Louisiana governors for decades
Operating the original Learjet 23, King Airs, Aero Commanders, and helicopters
Giving checkrides as a DPE beginning in 1968
Flying before GPS, ADS-B, DME, and…
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