#244 Grit and Growth: The Mindset of a Successful Pilot w Top Gun Ace Serge Durrant

#244 Grit and Growth: The Mindset of a Successful Pilot w Top Gun Ace Serge Durrant

Serge Durrant, a former Top Gun fighter pilot turned paraglider, discusses his journey from aviation to adventure sports. We explore themes of mentorship, risk management, and the importance of community in high-stakes environments. Serge shares insights on overcoming fear, the competitive nature of flying, and the mental techniques that have helped him succeed in hang gliding, flying F-18 fighter jets, and paragliding. The conversation highlights the parallels between aviation and paragliding, emphasizing the need for grit and the value of learning from mistakes.

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Episode 133- Malin Lobb and Wing Control

Episode 133- Malin Lobb and Wing Control

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Episode 132- Bastienne Wentzel and the Beginner’s Guide to Paragliding

Episode 132- Bastienne Wentzel and the Beginner’s Guide to Paragliding

Bastienne Wentzel is a professional science writer, editor of Lift magazine and assistant pilot instructor based in the Netherlands. A few years ago she became frustrated with the lack of comprehensiv...

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Episode 131- Ferdinand Van Shelven takes on his 5th X-Alps

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Ferdinand (aka "Ferdy") Van Shelven, "The Flying Dutchman" is returning for his 5th Red Bull X-Alps this June. Ferdy has been in the top 7 in all of his previous 4 campaigns from 2011 to 2017. How has...

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Episode 130- Instruments and chasing beauty with Koni Schafroth

Episode 130- Instruments and chasing beauty with Koni Schafroth

Koni Schafroth has been flying over 30 years, but you're not going to find him chasing distance and trying to win XContest. Koni pursues free flight for the beauty and tapping into the incredible emot...

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Episode 129- Piedrahita, Wild Stories, Accident hindsights and more with Steve Ham

Episode 129- Piedrahita, Wild Stories, Accident hindsights and more with Steve Ham

Steve Ham's fascination with flying began with hang gliders in 1981, which subsequently ended any attempt at a serious career path. In 1991 Steve discovered Piedrahita in Spain and began a crusade to ...

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Episode 128- Ari in the Air and the philosophy of flight

Episode 128- Ari in the Air and the philosophy of flight

In this entertaining and thought-provoking podcast with Ari Delashmutt, a big mountain skier, world-record highliner, paraglider, film maker, and pursuer of the absurd we take on what is sometimes the...

25 Sep 20201h 30min

Episode 127- Hypoxia, Cold, Accident and Reserve Studies and more with Dr. Matt Wilkes

Episode 127- Hypoxia, Cold, Accident and Reserve Studies and more with Dr. Matt Wilkes

ER and Critical Care physician and paragliding hound Matt Wilkes returns to the Mayhem to share the takeaways from several large studies he's been involved with since his last talk three years ago on ...

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Episode 126- An oldie but goodie with the legend Pal Takats

Episode 126- An oldie but goodie with the legend Pal Takats

This week we're doing our first "rerun" as Gavin is in the field deep in remote Nevada on a major SAR effort to find our good friend James "Kiwi" Johnson, who was recently on the show. We will get cau...

29 Aug 20201h 31min

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