PlaneNutz.com is an editorial, photographic, video and audio podcast amalgamation of the flight experiences of many people.
We are glad you’re here so please let me take moment and give you the 411.
First, let me introduce myself.
Sandy dipping the tanks on his 206G before a take-off in Ecuador (Click to enlarge)
My name is Sandy Toomer. My aviation career began in 1990 as a student at a 141 school known as Moody Aviation then after graduation with Mission Aviation Fellowship in 1993 and continued there for another 14 years where I operated both as a commercial pilot and A&P mechanic in Ecuador, SA many of those years.
One of unique “achievements” is having to re-take the Commercial Pilot written exam in Spanish during my re-licensing process to fly in Ecuador. But that’ll be a story for an article someday.
I am the developer of PlaneNutz.com and Senior Editor at PlaneNutz Media, LLC . As my brainchild we have been working on PlaneNutz.com about nine months. Launched originally in the summer of 2010 we were immediately on a lot of people’s radar screens, garnering about 10,000 unique visit a month with little or no promotion. That was done simply by carrying contemporary, relevant aviation grade content backed up with great photos, videos and our own podcast network.
However we actually got too big too fast and decided to step back a few steps on the site and include less (we had a social network component that was over the top time consuming to manage).
So now you have the new PlaneNutz.com with basically stories, news, video and our own podcast network of shows beginning with CAVU, our general aviation panel style, virtual meet up every week or so with aviation industry notables.
Vision
The pilot population is aging and declining.
With the decline of the post WW II pilot population, the GI Bill, the high cost of entry into aviation as a hobby/sport, as a career or a business, and of course, lets not leave out the legal profession’s influence, well aviation is losing altitude.
But I believe there is hope, a lot of it in the form of people looking for ways to work smarter. Home-building is one option. Experimental aviation as a whole another. Along those lines looking for innovative, forward thinking entrepreneurs who are packing more and more value into smaller and frankly cost effective packages in the form of instrumentation, electronics, paints, lighting, engines, and of course the kit planes themselves.
About a year and a half ago I began a project building an RV-8 and through that learning about the grass roots, Amateur-built/Experimental certification world of aviation, really the birthplace of aviation as we know it today.
From that I have come to realize we owe a lot to these men and women who have so much to raise the bar and keep momentum going in aviaitron despite the apparent decline in the past twenty years.
The vision for PlaneNutz.com is to do our part in our own way to lend a hand to this effort.
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Fly safe!
