Episode 58: Captain Mike Baumgartner

We sit down with my long-time friend, Captain Mike Baumgartner. We met as classmates while attending Alaska Airlines 737-200 initial training in 1984. Captain Baumgartner's dream of becoming a pilot began when he was a young child traveling from Seattle to Switzerland to visit his grandparents. Mike used hard work to achieve his dream of becoming an airline pilot. He tells us about flying the DC3 and making landings and take-offs on several beaches in Alaska to haul loads of fish to market. Captain Mike flew his last flight for Alaska on the same route where his flying career started.

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Episode 58: Captain Mike Baumgartner is an episode from Talking Flight by Mike Swanigan.

This episode is 01:09:09 long.

This episode was published on Jun 6, 2022.

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