You’d have to look hard to find an AOPA NZ member who is more passionate about IFR than Russell Taylor. Russell started out as a mechanic and moved into car dealership, at which stage flying around the country became a very useful business tool. But with weather limiting his movements, he decided to “go IFR”. Russell shares his thoughts on IFR, the advantages and challenges, and also shares a very scary moment when “everything iced up” on an IFR flight.
This Pilots’ Talk episode is part of series of candid interviews with AOPA NZ members. Pilots, engineers, aviation experts and others who are passionate about General Aviation, have great experience, and have a yarn or two to share. To see all Pilots’ Talk videos published to date, including short clips, click this link. You can also head over to our YouTube channel. If you have suggestions for future interviews, please email comms@aopa.nz with the member’s details and your thoughts on why they’d make a great interviewee for this series. Interviews were conducted, produced and edited by Mark Sinclair of yBC.