Confessions of an International Ferry Pilot in the 1980's. 

Back in the day GPS meant Good Piloting Skills. Hats off to you gentlemen.

I flew for Peter Goldstern in 1978 and he used celestial navigation with a sextant and HP calculator. We flew in loose formation. He later went down in the North Atlantic in a new Mooney 201 in the middle of winter and was in the water 8 hours with only the wet suit, no raft. He was picked up by a Russian weather ship and had to stay on it 3 or 4 months. Great stories, thanks.

I got my pilot's license in college many years ago. I haven't flown as PIC in decades. Just finished your book "Ferry Pilot" It's fun living vicariously through Kerry's stories. Reading page by page you feel like you're right next to him in the copilot seat. I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book.

So much respect for you guys who really were the Mavericks of the Ferry Pilots.

Great podcast PLEASE get your audio under control!

that was awesome, i could have listened to you guys for hours and hours.

That Nairobi flight story is absolutely nuts. Respect😮

a testimate to the quality of your entertaining skills is that I've finished this episode twice over despite the mildly annoying audio issues. Please keep this going and keep up the quality and KEEP IT CONSISTENT

Excellent work! Looking forward to more of these stories.

Incredible stories and a lot of knowledge and experience. Thank you for sharing! Excellent and unique content. Love it!

Thanks for the interview! It was very interesting

great stories!! Thanks for sharing this conversation with us.

Loved your video! brings back memories: my first one was St John / Santa Maria in a C172, in 1990. Tampax and double ziplocs for number one, never even though of number two. Keep the stories coming please!

got your book from you around a year ago, was an awesome read and really increased my passion for flying

Awesome stories! Thank you both.

It’s kind of crazy: you guys became great pilots by being thrown in the deep end, but it was wildly irresponsible of your boss.

Great show! Flew cancelled checks in repo airplanes in the 80s so know the feeling.

Having spent time on the ground in Gabon and Ivory Coast ( and Lagos) as a contract engineer for the aircraft companies, your stories ring true !! Loved the tales of deepest darkest Africa!! Jambo … J

Read your book Kerry. Amazing read. Glad you’re still with us!

I can listen to this for hours. Great stories.

This was a great interview to watch. Thank you.

Thank you gentlemen for a most enjoyable listen!

Love the pod cast !!!!!

Great stories glad to see your still here!!!

Exciting tales. Retired after 47 years of professional flying and I can relate to the stories. There are some of my own that make me cringe when I recall the scary ones.

excellent - thank you - I know a great deal about the early distance record pilots like Alan Cobham, Alex Henshaw and Amy Johnson but your channel has introduced me to a different group of aviation pioneers - thanks.

Absolutely amazing!

Fantastic Video. Thank you gentleman.

well I imagine that I found this channel via my interest in the freight dog channel but boy if that's your first pod cast I can't wait for more.

More of this! Really great!

My first comment on RU-vid ever: I owned Pete’s Cessna 210 N24K for a time. Just happened to stumble across this video. I see his twin is painted the same way as his 210 was.

NGL, I watched your story about the ferry flight with the unpressurized fuel tank and was captivated. Then I see your title and you instantly came to mind so I clicked. So glad to have found this! Thanks for sharing!

Flying those 6 pack days. Never ferried, but certainly can’t wait for more…. Keep the cast going please

That was a great yarn. Thank you.

Awesome, keep up the great content!

Ocean Flying by Louise Sanchi very good read as well….and a remarkable woman & Pilot. Did a lot of ferry flying for a busy Chicagoland airport. Picked up the last Cessna 210 made as well as flew the last 310 built. Interesting flying for a C-150 instructor which I was at the time.

Very interesting any time you get to listen to guys that have been around the block in any profession

👍✅ Great stories Kerry and Greg, tks for doing this video and hope there are more to come!

Great stories, thanks!

these stories sound very familiar to truck ferrying , from europe to the middle east in the eigties , they gave you a truck or crane etc. pretty overloaded with all kinds of spares and a tight bag of money , and no papers , insurance , carnets (or all fake) ..... always ready to jump and leave the rig . it did make me rich in stories 😂

Amazing you guys lived through all of this. You should do a video on orient air and Pete.

loved it!

wow, more of these stories please!!! Couldn't put your book down when I got it, now can't stop listening to these. If I ever pull out a credit card to scrape something with it (my MacGyver tool), it can now never be the same 🤣

Wild! Fascinating; thank you!

Read your book, loved it. One of my all time favourites

Thanks! super stories!

Very entertaining! I love hearing all your experiences flying all over the world.

That was awesome!

Nice work. Happy Landings, Capt. Guido

I have seen a few ferry videos before, and it always seem to be an adventure in som way.

Considering getting a PPL and watching a lot of videos on mistakes and such. You guys pushed the edges so hard and came through in one piece. I’ve got to believe mad skills and natural pilots only explanation. I am an aerospace engineer and you guys definitely have the technical understanding that seems to count for a lot. Sad to see TNAFlygirl accident where wonderful gal but simply lacking in real understanding of fight mechanics and technology

This was fascinating and hilarious! Really enjoyed it, thank you! Would love to hear more! Any additional visuals you can add, the better! Illustrations would be awesome but too expensive. Stories like these don’t exist anymore. It’s valuable and entertaining! It’s a completely different world now, but these stories are not that old!

good work

you guys must have had a CRAZY amount of fun... if your into that type of thing lol... great adventures

Hello Kerry. My name is Slavik, I got a book from you, a very nice book easy to read. Too bad we didn't meet each other when we were young, you and I would be all over the world. I'm a pilot(Beginner) I only have an 820TT CPL-SEL-MEL-INST. I do some ferry flights around N.America. I would like to fly over the Atlantic to Europe, but I have no experience yet. Reading your book I thought to email you and give you an idea for making a ferry pilots manual. I'm talking about a book that can guide a low-experience pilot through. If you want we can talk about and I can give you a better picture. Thank you for an awesome book. Happy New Year.

Good stuff. The days before GPS were certainly a shedload more interesting than post GPS. 'Navigation' as an art became non existent. DME homing was a real procedural thing with The Australian DMEAs. Not legal, in terms of an Instrument procedure, with the DMEI version but quite ok practically. Note change of DME distance in 36 seconds x 100. So if you went 1.8nm in 36 seconds that was 180kts. You just bracketed your headings back and forth until you got max closure then held that heading until over the top of the DME (within 2nm) then flew headings and time intervals and a procedure turn in the middle and down to the minima - no azimuth aid required. The 1 in 60 rule saved my life one night over the Coral Sea, late 80s, en route Port Moresby-Honiara in a Beechcraft Queenair. Flight Service gave me the wrong winds aloft so my heading was wrong. Half way between Gurney and Gizo I was expecting to be able to do a 'running fix' on Minima NDB but we never heard it....we were out of range WAY left of track. That nagging feeling in the back of my neck suddenly materialised into clarity and I snatched up the flight plan and looked at the winds I had applied to my track. Basically NW/15kts - at that time of year it should have been more like SE/15kts. A quick DED reckoning 1 in 60 and with a deep breath I turned about 40 degrees right and tuned in the Gizo NDB. An hour later I'm approaching a line of thunderstorms with my ADF needle just meandering in between pointing at lightening strikes. Punched through the line of cells (no RADAR) and, believe it or not, there is an island laying under a full moon with lights around the coastline and the ADF needle snaps to zero relative bearing and the Gizo ident bursts into my headset. I learned much later Gizo NDB published range and reality were two different things ;-) A new pilot who joined the company THAT morning and had been sent with me (charter's requirement 2 pilots) - and up to that point had thought he was at the mercy of a raving lunatic - just looked out the windscreen at Gizo in the moonlight, then at me, then out the window. Ahhh the good old days hahaha

Thanks for the memories. I was part of that cadre during the 80’s and you’re right. Lots of weird places, lots of adventures, and I got arrested a couple of times. Not to mention the ferry pilot grapevine which were better than NOTAMS.

check the wires on your mic it sounds like ground static on the audio. love the videos though!!!

Good stuff!

This video is a thousand times better than the rich boy videos flying their shiny new SP jet from Orlando to Houston. Or wherever There 800 mile takes them.

What incredible heroes

If i had no clue what this was about, as soon as your guest started to speak I knew he was a pilot.

Always wanted to be a ferry pilot, but there is little to no demand in my country for one

Great episode. I bet Greg has some great Bob Leaders stories.

somebody tell me the editing to do to create that moving line which maps your route, like at the start of this video.

I remember this guy from that TV show

Those pilots have big one's that's for sure!

Nothing wrong with people choosing to accept risk to themselves. Our society is built on taking risk. Theres no such thing as total personal safety. At home sitting on the couch is dangerous to your health.

that was great

this is great. love it. write books

So interesting - remember you from Dangerous flights, which was great :) Is your daughter still flying as I seem to remember her bring in Dangerous flights as well? :)

Had a ferry pilot for an instructor in the late 1990's and he had 11 engines fail him. He would ferry planes for people who were selling their plane, so the engines could be sketchy.

Great stories guys! I guess there are more, being associated with that Vector sitting on the chair...?

Perhaps you've heard of Mark Lear. He was a guy who cut kind of a big brother figure for me in the 80s, and was proud that I joined the Army at 17. Mark waited for his draft notice in the late 60s by going for runs with a 2x4 held at Port Arms. Somehow, despite having the makings of a strac soldier, he ended up being recruited to do "other stuff" for Uncle Sam. He ferried new airplanes to Africa before I met him in the late 70s. He told me he got locked up for a few days somewhere there because he wore jump boots and the customs/MI guy said, "You military! You military!" He was also "acquainted" with a German (Mr Mertens?) former SS guy who owned gold mines in Mexico. Mark hated commies and this definitely made a lasting impression on me, haha! He ended up crashing his early 60s Piper Cherokee and dying (allegedly) in the mid 90s. I'm convinced he did more than ferry airplanes to Africa but whatever. I really miss the guy - he could build and/or fix anything, something that I aspire to do as well to this day.

Great stories! How did you guys survive???

Great stories!! How can I get your book?? Thxs!

Yeah, single engine takeoff is not part of the ME curriculum for sure !

great video. btw. I belive you can get rid of that static sounds using some online web AI filter. It helped me in similar matters. Than reaupload clean version. If you like.

How many hours did it take in the 206 from Bangor to Ireland?

Brilliant 😂😂

Maybe explain what a ferry pilot is/does?? I initially thought you captained a large ferry between ocean ports….

you flyboys may call it compass and clock 70's seamen call it dead reckoning x

There’s some sort of distracting sound interfering, some sort of electronic interference?

Seems like you would start off with a brief description of exactly what a ferry pilot does because 5 mins in I still have no idea what you guys haul

Whatbis the hiss in the sound

VMC/IMC. Tada!

Who is Pete?

Ferry flying? how does that work? a ferry goes on the water?

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jesus... talk about wild west of aviation

Readability is 1, guys

Is the earth flat?

Terrible audio