Many people are intrigued at the idea of being a pilot, but becoming a pilot can feel a bit daunting: Which flight school should you choose? How much time is flight training really going to take?  Which type of pilot license should someone pursue? ...these are all pretty typical questions that the latest episode of ICON's Adventure Flying podcast tries to answer. Featuring Jason DePew, a 737 Pilot for a major airline and one of ICON's main A5 flight instructors for the Florida region, this...

AirVenture 2021 had a number of exciting announcements and perhaps one of the more interesting stories on the media front was the acquisition of Flying Magazine by freight industry entrepreneur and pilot Craig Fuller. Craig also runs FreightWaves, Inc. a company that is known as "The Bloomberg of Freight". FreightWaves offers current digital intelligence and context to the freight community on a central platform. Craig will now bring this digital expertise to the helm of Flying...

Tim Sheehy is a graduate of the US Naval Academy, a retired Navy Seal, a multi-engine seaplane pilot, and the CEO of Bridger Aerospace. Bridger specializes in aerial firefighting, primarily the ground to air reconnaissance and organization of assets in the air, as well as providing support using their "Super Scooper" seaplanes.  Wildfires are one of the most devastating economic and environmental issues of our time, and the type of flying that is required to control them is arguably the...

Erika Armstrong aka "A Chick In the Cockpit" is one of the leading voices in the aviation community. Having flown close to 30 different aircraft, from charters for the World Wide Wrestling Federation to corporate business travel around the globe, Erika has countless stories that any aviator would find edifying. For this episode of the Adventure Flying podcast, Erika focuses on the moment when she found herself flying beneath the runway at Telluride Regional Airport. It was a scary situation...

Brad Launchpad Marzari is Reporter at large for the Airplane Geeks Podcast and has been a pilot for over 20 years. He learned to fly on a US Air Force Base in Germany, and it didn't take him 100 hours to get some incredible adventures underneath his...

In this episode of the Adventure Flying Podcast, we interviewed Jason Miller, host of The Finer Points aviation podcast.

Warren "Angus" Curry spent 22 years as a Marine Pilot and SOCOM Commander.  Narrowing down his greatest adventure to a single experience was no small task, but listen to what he learned flying one of the most advanced aircraft in the U.S. Military.  

Peter Weber hosted a season as ABC's "The Bachelor", but he has close to 5,000 hours as an airline pilot. Listen to what makes flying so special to him, when he realized he was born to become a pilot, and what he says has been his greatest adventure.

Before joining ICON, Rich Bookbinder was a Sergeant in the California Highway Patrol, flying helicopters on missions varying from search and rescue to air support. One would logically think Rich's most memorable flying adventure would have been in the air over California in his role as a police officer, but it was actually while en route to a small Eskimo Village in the Yukon Delta of Alaska.

Genesah is a Fixed Wing CFI, Commercial SES, and a Private Helicopter Pilot. While she has considerable experience as a pilot, her answer to "what was her greatest adventure" was pretty easy.

Noah has thousands of hours flying the C-2 Greyhound, affectionately known as the "C.O.D". He was responsible for transporting people on and off the ship, from sailors to celebrities. These are the two of his most memorable flights.

What does "adventure" mean to you? Join ICON Aircraft as we ask pilots the greatest adventures they've ever flown on. Where did these journeys take them, what did they learn, and why is adventure so important to them?