About Us
We’re Australia’s Only Aviation Podcast
The Plane Crazy Down Under podcast has been in existence since July 2009 and our guests have included Matt Hall, Owen Zupp, Joel Haski, Alan Arthur and many other pilots as well as aviation analysts, air traffic controllers, adventurers and museum staff. We are producing the show in our spare time to help boost awareness of aviation within the Australia/Pacific region and spread the message to people that flying is fun and achievable. Our coverage spans the whole gamut of aviation and includes informative stories, interviews & discussions on topics ranging from hot air balloons, RA Aus, warbirds, & aerobatics through to charter, airlines and the military.
Our audience is primarily located in Australia & New Zealand (about 75%) while the bulk of the remainder are in the USA & Canada (about 20%). Each of our episodes is downloaded by over 500 aviation professionals, enthusiasts and the general public with our more popular episodes exceeding 700 downloads.
Steve Visscher
A self confessed podcast junkie and lapsed pilot wth a range of ratings in Australia & the United States, Steve currently drives trains for a living and dreams of getting back in the air again just as soon as life stops putting road blocks in his way. He’s studied freelance journalism (but never finished) and is also a firefighter with the Country Fire Authority in his “spare” time. He often admits to spending far more time than he should fiddling with computers & other “geek” gadgets, and his “leet mixing skillz” are stretched to the max as he works hard to ensure we sound as coherent, intelligent and witty as possible with each episode.
Steve can be found at his Aus Flier blog and on Twitter as SteveVisscher.
Grant McHerron (aka Falcon124)
Grant works as part-time ground crew for commercial hot air balloon operations when he’s not doing IT project management. A perpetual student pilot, Grant has tried a couple of times to get his fixed wing license, his glider pilot’s license and, currently, his balloon license. Each time he gets further into his training, something else comes up and he either relocates around the world or watches his flying money disappear into other causes. Finally being able to link his IT geek with his Aviation Geek, Grant looks after the web site, arranges interviews and generally causes cheeky mischief.
Grant can be found at his Fly Me Friendly blog & associated website as well as on Twitter as Falcon124. He also runs the Experience This! blog, the commercial voice of the Flight Experience Melbourne 737 simulator.
David M Vanderhoof – Historian
Skyhawks, Canberras, Boomerangs, oh my! What’s an American doing on an Aussie Podcast? Answer: Steve and Grant asked. The rest is (for) history!
David is a trained historian who grew up around military and civilian aircraft. With a Pacific War Veteran Father, David has always had an interest in all things South Pacific. Growing up it was A-4G’s and DHC-4 Caribous, the Aussies put their Kangaroos on cool aircraft. (And he knows the rat always stands on the fuselage) Ok it’s really about the Scooters: Kiwi’s, Indonesian’s, Malaysian and Singapore’s.
David started writing for the Airplane Geeks, as their Historian-in-Residence. So it was natural to “Code Share” for the Australia Desk / Plane Crazy Down Under. David is finally getting to do what he always wanted to do, write and talk airplanes. David is an avid plastic modeler and reader. You will always find him paging through books looking up some obscure thing, “geeking” out on the latest Sci-Fi, or “chatting” it up with his new blokes 15,000 Km away.
David can be found at his blog “What Just Flew By?”, as @DMVanderhoof on Twitter and of course weekly on The Airplane Geeks Podcast and PCDU.
