How Ferry Pilot Margrit Waltz Completed 900 Ocean Crossings
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 2 ต.ค. 2024
- When an airplane has to be moved across a continent or an entire ocean, ferry pilots have to be ready to fly on a moment's notice. And ferry pilot Margrit Waltz has done a lot of that flying, recently completing her 900 over-ocean crossing in a factory new TBM 940, one of the fastest single-engine aircraft in the world. She tells AVweb's Paul Bertorelli how she did it.
Golden... bravo Margrit... (I'll be using this video to inspire my 7 year old daughter into aviation)
Please don't they have their own decisions try asking her what she really wants before you end up putting her on a life trauma
@@alicesmith1016 oh shut up you feminist, i dont remember you having his child!
"They had enough people lying about the weather without an accent." Ouch! 😂
Yeah! When I heard her say that, I looked at the 16 minute video length and thought "I'm sure this video is going to be too short"
The world is burning up, doncha know. Her flights are filled with terror now that the CO2 concentration has elevated to such levels.
Hahahahaha awesome!!
She is telling the truth! 🙂
🤣🤣🤣
She is great what wonderful experience. As a retired airline pilot her flying is a lot more exciting than me sitting in Boeing aircraft with the auto pilot and being fed every few hours with a crew rest station on board. Well done I salute her and her experience as it is really gutsy to fly single engine and cross oceans 900 times. Fantastic interview thank you for sharing.
I used to be a flight operations officer at one of the FBOs Margrit always stopped at. She is the real deal, was always a wonderful customer, and just a nice person to meet every time. We would go out of our way to do anything we could to make her stay as good as possible.
Helping her with decoding weather data and satellite pictures was more her helping me, at least for the first few years. Extremely knowledgeable, helpful, courteous, professional, humble, and just simply nice.
Magrit: 900 ocean crossings in TBM 940
Stevo Kinevo: write that down! write that down!
There’s a book overdue if ever there was one.
Yeah!
There are a couple out there. I believe the "Taking Off" channel did an interview with a ferry pilot that has one. He also had a very interesting story. Hope that helped? 8) --gary
I believe she’s already wrote one.
@@gtr1952 This is the video from Taking Off about ferry pilots th-cam.com/video/7agC1qu6huo/w-d-xo.html
I had the priviledge of being a fellow classmate during Margrit's Citation Mustang initial at Flightsafety. We were sim partners. She's an absolutely amazing pilot and one of the coolest people I know.
I'm impressed! Over my 37 years flying internationally in the US Air Force and as an airline pilot, I doubt have half that many crossings.
fantastic interview. and what a personality! I loved every second!
Ferry pilot = underpaid test pilot.
Well, at least it's (hopefully) a tad post beta...
What was a bit missed was that these legs are in the 3,000 - 4,000 mile range. It's one thing to do 900 flights, it another to 900 flights of 3,000+! We are talking 3 million miles (and likely much more) in a SINGLE ENGINE plane! Hahaha.. I laugh for joy because this women must LOVE LOVE her job.
Even the customers don't want to sit in a plane for that long!
The other thing - ferry flights in winter - just taxing around would be stressful with the wind speeds they get on the route that was being described. And a few of those landings have got to have had some unpleasant cross wind components.
A great vote of confidence in the plane. If you are a customer she probably does a pretty thorough pre-flight, knows what to look for, and by the time you get it to hop around in she may have taken it up and down through a lot of weather and altitude and duration and everything else that would shake out the bugs. I was in another field where a lot of bugs really did show up in the first 20 hrs of use of the product.
Metric . . .
@@TRPGpilot /5 *8
What vast wealth of knowledge Margrit has. I could listen to her for hours.
Nice Matterhorn pic for your profile.
What a pleasure to hear her story ! WHY SO SHORT ???? About the journalist ..... the best by far deserves a TH-cam medal !
Absolutely spectacular. Kudos to not only her aviation savvy but also to her ADM producing 900+ crossings over nearly 50 year span. Would love any opportunity to fly her right seat.
What a wonderful lady. I was a very average private pilot and used to fantasise about being a ferry pilot, my dream job.
Thanks Margrit. Ferry pilots we need your stories on TH-cam!
This lady is very good at what she does.
Air Force, then airline regional work, then instructor and ferry pilot for a manufacturer... being the aircraft bigger, numbers are smaller and intercontinental deliveries are a smaller percentage of the total. But the job is so great that I would consider retiring from my current one and transitioning to single pilot certified deliveries, to continue doing it even past 65! Congratulations on this impressive career!
OMG!
What a pilot.
Just found out that when she took her private pilot license at the age of 18, her instructor was Erich Hartmann.
I know the name well! Hartmann was baaaaad assed and never relented under Soviet imprisonment.
@@silasmarner7586 "Holt Hartmann vom Himmel" is a book.
That’s amazing!
This was too short of an interview, she was a delight
Nice story - thanks for sharing!
900 nearly maiden (many or most of them, presumably) flights?! That is, hundreds of flights of units that, while tested and legally certified, were not so to speak fully battle proven - until SHE tests that theory -- and on a trans-oceanic!! Once might be a rare lifetime accomplishment. Twice, yeah. Ten - balls of steel. Hundreds??
Chuck Yeager must be giggling in admiration.
Wonder how many hours are on each aircraft before the factory hands it over
As cool as that New Airplane is .... I still can’t take my eyes off the Cub in the background ....!
Please write a book about your incredible knowledge of ferrying and other aspects of flying
100 crossings would be impressive, I can't even fathom 900!!
What an amazing career! Congrats to her!
She would make a “great”weather girl. BTW, for most of the video Paul looks like he has two wings coming out of his head. I wonder if the camera crew did that on purpose.
Great interview....
Some might not agree but after 900 I think we need to put Waltz right in there with Lindbergh and Earhart.
Such an amazing young woman!! Stay safe!!
What a badass and a professional!
Bravo Margrit....You are very impressive with your 900 crossing of the Atlantic, it's a reminder to those females flyers who ferry airplanes across during WWII...You are a good modele for the young women who want to fly....I'm a proud dad of 2 daughters to whom i told that there is nothing they can't do....Girls power!
OK...900 crossings is not impressive...it's absolutely incredible and a record that no one else on earth ever will duplicate! Airline captains with 30 years experience won't touch that record. And, she did it in small airplanes stopping along the way, many of those crossings in single-engine piston airplanes. The was a nice video, but totally underplayed. There'll never be another Margrit Waltz. She's absolutely incredible.
Congrats on the flights. Don't meet many people like you anymore. Stay awesome Margrit!!
Back in 1991 I bought a Piper PA38 Tomahawk in Akron Ohio. I wanted it transported to the UK. Amazingly I found a pilot prepared to ferry it. I said NO and it went in a container instead.
Fascinating. Thanks to you both.
Thanks so much for this interview, wow. What a role model.
Great story......especially knowing she was trained by Eric Hartmann - who shot down 550 Russian aircraft! I followed the same routes like her a few years back doing the same type of flying. I wrote an interesting book on my true personal aviation travels .....but it was dismissed as imagination! Better to remain incognito!
What a great interview. Margrit sounds like a terrific person, I would love to sit down & have a chat with her
Nice story…Great awesome woman. Respect to her flying skills. AV Web did a great job on this interview. Good idea! By the way, who are the negative voters? What’s wrong with you guys?
Maggie is the best - She allways puts a smile on my face, when i hear her comming up on our freqz here in Greenland. I´ve known her since 2002 when i manned the TWR in BGBW/Narsarsuaq. back then, she had more tech stops in Greenland.
Meryl Streep of Aviation. What a career. What a personality.
Amazing interview Paul! Margarit is certainly quite the badass. 210kt headwinds. I cannot even begin to fathom this.
One smart pretty woman . Highly capable and detailed driven pilot too. From a fan in Australia
WOW This is one amazing lady! Oh for the chance to just do one delivery with her!
Interesting, I never knew TBM started as a Mooney. Rather significant step up in sophistication from stagnant looking Mooney. And French coming from an American company.
A lot of GA feels like just a handful of guys in fateful moments. In 2000 Cirrus was just a kit builder with an impressive fatality rate.
I think the M in TBM stands for Money.
@@mr.ginnationfunlifestyle3891 all The Bloody Money :) that seems to be a turboprop affliction.
@@mr.ginnationfunlifestyle3891
Yes, the M stands for Mooney !!!
The Company producing the TBM series 'Socata' in Tarbes, France (today Daher who owns also Kodiak)
was producing the first TBM in the 1980's - based on the prototype Mooney 301, a single engine piston with 360HP. The TBM 700 becomes a lot heavier and bigger then Mooney's scratch draft, but had twice that power. As Mooney in the mean time was in serious difficulties, eventually Socata buy the entire Mooney. They used a french turbine with 700 HP to drive the TBM-700.
This was also the first pressurised single engine turbine aircraft in the world.
Socata is a big name with a long history of well known and well done aircrafts.
TB stands for Tarbes (the home town of the company) and M for Mooney.
I remember when my aeroclub club took delivery of a new MK3 Piper warrior trainer fixed gear fixed prop with a big bladder tank 6cld 300hp to Alice springs Australia....... now that I'm older I have a clue how long a trip that would have been and this amazing woman what a pilot.
vielen Dank... you are awesome.. thank you for this great video
so... I am thinking about south from Alaska to Hawaii... they have regular aircraft over there and they must fly in.. pretty expensive to ship.. so... just thinking at the moment...
I think the old guys flew low and took advantage of ground effect... probably not in winter on the north Atlantic.. which I came home from Europe through.. so my respect is... beyond the moon and stars ☪️... cajones muy grande darlin.. ¡muy grande!.. no worries mate... I have a pair made from AuPd that might look great on your dashboard... if I run into you . they are yours ... keep em... you earned them
it's actually a couple puddles that spilled out the crucible... they are a... ummmm.. conversation piece... easy to recognize
AVWeb ALWAYS has the most intriguing and capturing content! Keep up the good work!
Interesting and impressive. I've made a lot of ocean crossings myself but I had four engines. I could listen to this lady talk for hours on this subject.
Her own instructor was Erich Hartmann, a WW2-fighter-ace, and she herself has decades of experience and hundreds of ocean crossing ferries. It doesn't get any better than that!
You serious?
Fantastic interview. Great guest, interesting subject.
0:33 Paul needs to make a hat that looks like the one he's 'wearing' here. That way everyone will ask him for directions and stuff at the conventions.
If i flew my mooney into 210kts of headwind i would not need a runway to get off the ground plus I'd fly away from my destination😂.
Great interview! She is impressive and I’m sure full of great flight stories.
She would have definitely been a WASPS, love her story!
Fantastic, thank you
I met her in Tarbes 2 years ago, nice lady, I think she said she flew a Cessna 172 at low altitude from like Los Angeles or San Fran. Wow.
Legendary!
Fantastic interview! When you get to talk with someone that interesting, you just ask questions and stand back and listen, let the spotlight be on the guest, and that's just what Paul did here. Perfect. I don't remember hearing from a pilot who was so modest about what they've done. Would love to hear more stories from Margrit.
Awesome inspiring interview 👍 Thanks Margrit!
"... enough people lying about the weather..." Precious.
This is definitely a “great woman” ! Chapeau !
She's Really Incredible! _TBM' So Advanced, Wheres the BRC?!
Ceiling for TPM is about 30,000 feet. Still can’t fly above bad weather?
Is that a real question or you are being a comedian? Weather affects any flying machine flying within the earth's atmosphere.
@@TRPGpilot ::: yes, understood, but I thought really bad weather is below 30k feet.
Most of the ugly stuff is below FL300, but major storms can go twice that high. However those are usually isolated and easy enough to go around.
The weather situation during departure and/or arrival is the most important.
She is amazing woman, I wish to fly with her.
Great talk Margrit, nice to see you again even on a youtube only.
Brilliant Lady, awesome interview!
Great interview! I’ve always watched your adventures. I don’t think I’ll ever get to 900 ocean crossings in small aircraft, but I can relate with flying single engine pistons over the North Atlantic!
I like the way your understated but incisive style brought out Waltz confident, competent, pride.
She started counting at one for the first crossing and one day she reached 900. Counting is taught in preschool and most public schools.
Congratulations to Margrit Walsh on 900 flights across the Atlantic ocean mostly in single engine planes! What a nice person with a great sense of humor. Bravo.
What an amazing woman and outstanding aviator! A great interview on both sides of the microphone. I certainly hope she writes a book in the near future
very good . thanks
she is so Kind so smart i respect her a lot for me the Queen of Aviation god bless her...
Wow what a fascinating story ....the Arctic Ocean is no place to have to ditch .... !
Powerful role model for young women in aviation!
Great interview
She’s awesome 👩✈️ , great interview
SUCH A NICE LADIE AVIATOR, COULDN'T YOU SOUND A LITTLE NICER TO HER, OR GIVE HER JUST A LITTLE ADMIRATION, ESPECIALLY AT THE END OF THE INTERVIEW? "#!?. COME ON MAN ? CFIAM JOE COVINO, Lake Havasu City, Arizona.
Wow she is amazing ❤️❤️❤️👍👍👍
Awesome video thank you
Willing to fill your shoes, but pretty sure unable....
99 bottles of beer on the wall, 99 bottles of beer ! Take one down, pass it around, 98 bottles of beer on the wall......
Who are the people buying TBMs? Is there really a big market for a 4.5 mil 6 seater?
Impressive stuff. Well done
Has she ferried any Quest Kodiaks, since Daher owns that company too ?
I was on the impression that the Kodiak was still being built in the United States Of American.
Yes, but owned by Daher now
True Queen of the skies ! Very interesting - thanks 👍
Great interview. Well done both of you. Heroes do regular jobs every day. She’s a hero.
Garmin equipment.
This article talks about pressurized mags :www.aviationpros.com/home/article/10388584/magnetos-under-pressure
Awesome interview all the way around, probably one, if not "Thee" favorite interview I've watched of Paul's work.
Margrit is a wonderful yet humble and straightforward inspiration to pilots young or old and of any gender - BRAVO!
The only one I got, the one in front🤣
Excellent topic...
Wonderful interview and very impressive pilot. Her career is so much more exciting as mine.
The only one I have the one in front
Congratulations. That really is an awesome accomplishment.
PLEASE MAKE AVWEB POLOS FOR SALE MR BERTORELLI!!!!!
Paul, it is pronunciated "Tarb", not Tarbs". Superb report, most interesting. I would have loved be on one of those flights. Margrit needs a TV documentary.
Listen closely. She says Tarbes. When I visited, that's how the folks around the factory said it.
@@AVweb Understood. Every time I have been in France and Tarbes in particular the 's' is silent. Like the 'p' in Bath
@@mxyzptlyk Google Translate and a whole bunch of French national youtube videos would agree with you, BUT! We cannot let the French win this one (TIC!).
AMAZING!!!... Loved the 747 radio call!! LOL
So humble and modest! Wonderful, impressive, and for sure a movie and book in the making.
GREAT achievement!