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Happy Holidays!! This week Behind the Prop shares their top 10 or so gift ideas for the pilot in your life (whether that is you or someone you shared this podcast with). We cover a lot of products and gift ideas this week to help you decide on big gifts, little gifts, and maybe a few things to avoid this year as well. Hopefully, everyone has a wonderful holiday season and we also hope you were not on the naughty list. Oh yeah, maybe you will get an ADS-B in receiver this year so you can avoid Santa too!
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What's up Wally. Hey bobby how are you. I'm good we are an episode ten man. This has been a lot of fun last week. We talked about the economics of flight training. Someone said As I told them the episode name. They said it's just expensive. And I know we talked about it being expensive but we. We gave some good tips on how to save money. Yeah it. It is expensive and nobody. Nobody walks in the door expecting this to be a cheap endeavor but There are ways to kind of mitigate the cost and that's what we're trying to help Here and this week we are going to cover all of your holiday gift ideas. So Wally and I have put together a list of things your family and friends to listen to this episode so they can get a bunch a good gift idea for you but we're going to talk to a bunch of stuff nothing necessarily in order but whether you've thought of these yourself for you want to have someone by some gifts for the holidays. Lots of good stuff on here Wally what do you he thinks Wally which one these holiday gift ideas should we start with. Well why don't we. Why don't we start at the top end of the price range and I say that You know we. I'm looking at my list here. And I have about ten things on here and Probably the most expensive thing and probably in my opinion The most useful thing that we have on the list here is an iPad You know we talked about paper vs plastic on previous podcast on whether The way to go as paper charts or plastic chart or electronic flight bag if you will and Obviously, we go with the EFB. Which is that's the wave of the future Pad is necessary so there are lots of different options with iPad memory size Cellular versus non cellular. And what I will say about. That is If you are looking to purchase an iPad you definitely want to buy one with cellular capability and the reason is an iPad with cellular capability has a gps chip built into it and That way as you're using your iPad In the airplane, you'll have your position your position will always be displayed now. You don't have to activate the cellular service on the iPad. So you're not. You're not having to pay a monthly subscription to that but you definitely want to buy an iPad. That has the cellular capability. And it's usually another hundred and thirty dollars extra for that particular iPad in so I think I was confused even early on. I'm kind of tech guy the value of that additional chip you really instead of buying a third-party external card that would provide that. Gps information you're getting that built into the iPad. So if I don't have a gps source by chance than the iPad will give it to me and you don't ever have to turn on the cellular services what you're saying correct that's exactly right. And the occasional time where you might be at an airport that's may be out in the middle of nowhere and you don't have Wi-Fi capability You can very simply Get cellular service. You're going to pay for it. You're going to have to put a credit card in it. You may have to commit to twenty dollars for a given month but it's always nice to have that backup. I do activate the cellular service on my iPad And I don't use it a whole lot because most of the time I am on Wi-Fi but there are where you're out Somewhere and you don't have Wi-Fi available and you, you'll want to file a flight plan or whatever Check the weather. It is nice to have that ability. But again you don't have to activate it so you don't have to pay the monthly fee. And as I’m sure varies by carrier. But I think mine's ten dollars device so if you turn it on its ten dollars you can turn it on and off pretty frequently if you want too as well. you're just going to be hit with that ten dollars so maybe you don't fly much in the winter turn it off. Turn it on the summertime It's great so let's talk about size and size so screen size and memory size probably a personal preference thing. I wish the there was almost something in between the mini and the eleven incher. Right eleven inches. Just a little too big for the knee board pad for me. Kind of thing the minis great. I have an old mini. It's time to upgrade my new to the newer mini for sure Because it's running slow. But I like a mini in the cockpit and I carry my larger iPad. My fly bag is a backup Any thoughts or suggestions there. Yeah, I it it's definitely personal preference though. The one thing that I do like about them mini is It is it does mount easily on the yoke In in our one seventy-two it fits right between the two Handles actually and it fits really nice on the yoke I'm not a mount it types person. I usually just keep the iPad in my lap. I’ve never really used kneeboard. I most of the applicants that I gave check rides to use knee boards and they use them very effectively. It's just something that Forty years ago. When I was learning to fly it just wasn't a part of the norm for people using the knee board so It's just something. I never really adapted to but my I have the eleven inches. iPad pro I think the super-duper iPad the twelve-point nine inch or whatever it is. I think it's just a little bit too big too bulky I said I kind of wish. There was one between the mini and the eleven inches because maybe about an I don't know a tween iPad with would be would be nice You know. I do find that. The older people like the bigger ones. The younger people liked the smaller ones. And that probably has something to do with the vision but You know are obviously able to pinch out to make the things bigger I would say the with. The iPad mini To me reading text Isn't as you know. I don't like it near as much As I do in my eleven-inch iPad so it is a personal preference and just keep in mind I think most people are not going to buy an iPad and dedicated strictly to aviation. You're going to use it for other things. You're going to find all kinds of other uses for it if you don't have an iPad already but It's a great device And as far as the other size. It's you know the memory. How much memory you have on your iPad is something to look at. And of course the more memory the more expensive so there are economics involved in this and that might be something that you could address you in the tech guy here. Yeah, I think. I would go the bigger the better the more you can afford the better. You're going to be the iPad going to be with you for probably more than a number of years My minis lasted probably going on five or six years But I would say it. It's always going to be painful to add the hundred bucks one hundred nine bucks for the two ninety-nine depending on how big you're going to really make that memory size be But I don't think you're going to regret it if you have more memory in there For sure that would be my suggestion. It's always going to come down to your wallet your capability but the bigger the better from a memory size. I think the mini is the right thing for the aircraft And I think again as we said for sure at the cellular chip so that you get that. Gps along with it. Yeah. I give check rise to so many people who are using an iPad and they don't have that cellular capability and Almost everyone of may say. Well I got this. I got the iPad before. I started flying so You know most people are going to say well I. I'm never going to need that but it is something that that has pilots.
You definitely need. Yes, and now. The there is a mini option. Out there with an apple pinzel. Which is I’ve always. This was going to be game. Changing so If you can find a way to not drop your one apple pencil in the plane then It's going to be an extremely valuable tool with what you can do in four flight with markups etc. So iPad at the top of our list today because of the size of the price tag for sure Let's just go with the second biggest price tag there And I would say that that that would probably be the four flights subscription maybe Something more expensive on that list. Now they eighty sb receiver. Let's start with receivers number two Lots of debates around a flight school. You've probably seen every eighty s b receiver In your check ride days. Wally Do you carry a receiver with you when you watch crowds. I don't and I really should Because there are so a lot of lot of the airplanes. I get to fly in have Bluetooth transponders. And I’m able to or Wi-Fi. I'm able to Hook my iPad up to the transponder in the airplane. And it is route. It's very nice to be able to see traffic The dsp receiver that. I have personally Has some serious battery issues. without being plugged in it lasts me about twenty minutes so when I have it in my airplane I have it constantly plugged in and it. It works just fine but Actually a newer. Adsb receiver is on. My Christmas was Wishlist to my family. So I would like to And the one that that I really like is I think it's the century It has a carbon monoxide detector built into it and It's fairly economically priced. But it is really nice to be able to get the weather and traffic I mean. That's the main thing traffic super nice and so much so much of a of a of a safety mechanism. I remember shortly. After I started flying, I went out and bought the stratus to it just got released and it was. I think in those days it might have been the one of if not the only game in town. Yeah, maybe was eight ninety-nine hundred nine some very expensive and I justified it to my wife saying that this was going to help me keep from hitting things and she said done to go. Get it But obviously there's a lot of different options on the market. Go searched. Google for a buyer's guide of some sort. So you get what you need. Some have batteries. Some don't have batteries built in or not built in And that might be a reason to for you to consider if you're going to get one of the bad battery or your battery goes bad. That's going to be pretty painful Without having plugged in as Wally said so teaches own. But the go out and buy something like that. The brain ranging. I would say to ninety-nine two thousand bucks on the high ride right By stratus. I've had now for five years. Works like a champ. Us that yesterday saw lots of traffic and Helped navigate me along my route as well right. Yeah, junction with what I had in the plane so A great tool to have and probably yes, the second most expensive on our list depending on which version you get number three here I guess would be the foreflight subscription; From the national performance plan all the way down to their introductory plan anywhere from two ninety-nine to around ninety-nine bucks for four flights subscriptions While he told a little story before we got started.
You give a few of these away every year. Here yeah this Both my daughters four flights subscription Renews on Christmas day every year and They kind of laugh about it. It's gotten to be a tradition. They know every year at Christmas. I'm going to renew their foreflight subscription and they've commented that. It's probably the most worthwhile Christmas gift they get albeit. It's not it's not very cool to get a four flights subscription. I remember in high school and in college every year for Christmas from my parents. I got two tires for my car and it was Okay yeah, they're my. They're my tires this year. And then You know. I put him on the car and get rid of the two bad ones and then the next year I get to more and so every year I had this tyrod or to tire rotation thing going on and That's kind of my. I don't give my daughter's tires anymore. But I give them a four flights subscription but It's definitely worthwhile. It's something you don't think about But it is such a worthwhile and in today's environment something very much needed as we age. It's funny how the practicality of a Christmas gift so much more valuable than the novelty of Christmas gift yeah So if you don't use it maybe that's a great Christmas gift idea for you now. Spattering of other really cool gifts that every aviator might need or want and we'll just talk through some of these items I showed Wally this morning as we sat down to record some of my new toys and the newest one albeit very simple was very valuable to me last night. When I flew back from Austin and that is my new flashlight and pretty cool stuff. Very basic Has a lot of the Survival type kit stuff in it right. It could help me break glass and it's made of high-quality aluminum and runs on three batteries. But the nice thing about it is. It's got a white light a red light and a green light. And I love it when I get to teach so my something new. I think I showed Wally something new this morning. Definitely this Flashlight the red the red function we all talk about it in an aircraft had an experience. Recently were. I was trying to show someone. I didn't have an emergency. But I was showing them the emergency checklist and turned on the red light on my headlamp and we couldn't read anything you know all the red texts disappears and it's gone so you can't see it so you'd have to use a white light. Obviously, an emergency that would be useful but this flashlight has a green light in it and it actually turns the red text into black ink purple. Something like that. It's a very dark color So for twenty bucks. Great lumina flashlight and zoom capabilities. Which I thought was really neat for a little handheld flashlight. So white green and red all was capabilities. All with Push-button access so a good flashlight is a great tool Wetherbee smaller. Big I have a big one as well that I use to preflight the aircraft. Something that I can see surface areas and things like that. If I was going to go preflight at night but I can see on the side of your bag while the you have looks like a flashlight with a little bit of survival gear cookson clamps and things on So obviously an important tool for everyone's flight back for sure definitely this. This one is a Smith and Wesson brand and This does not have a green light. It has the red light But that was very interesting what she showed me. The red light does totally make the red texts disappear and that that could be a problem. China reads something. But I think most of us have a phone that has a flashlight function built into it via the flash. So we all have that. So I think You know. I know back in the day when I was learning to fly. Having a flashlight in your flight bag was a big deal. I mean it was a big deal. Make sure you have a flashlight. Do you have a flashlight. Do you have extra batteries. And I think because the cell phones. We've maybe that has gone by the wayside. You know back in the day we all probably had maps somewhere in our cars in the glove compartment or somewhere and we don't. We just don't need that anymore with cell phones. I think we will rely on our phones. A lot for our flashlight. I know I know most people that I fly with at night. If they need a flashlight the first thing, I think about is pulling out their phone but Obviously the flashlights. On your phone don't have the different color capabilities Like these do and a lot of them. Have a strobe light feature that if you were ever in an emergency might be a good way to attract attention to yourself. If you ever went down a dark area no doubt so. I would definitely add flashlight into that. A headlamp to Lots of good options out there from headline perspective Read does make a pretty big difference for me at night. So that I don't of get the washout In my eyesight so If you get a headlamp also make sure it has a white and red option at a minimum In the green is a great plus as well. just what. what's the cost of that. Flashlight you showed me was nineteen ninety. Five and this has made by air classic so Obviously available in our store here at the school but also available online as well Suffering twenty bucks very high-quality flashlight for sure.
Yes, and easily stocking stuffer orbit gift right and you mentioned it. Obviously, this takes batteries You'd be a fool not to carry extra batteries for anything that runs on batteries at night. And if you don't fly often You know we talked about proficiency a week or two ago and obviously you need to make sure your batteries and things in your in. Your tools are up and a working and you should also carry extra batteries. We've talked about your little check ride gift here that you give out. Wally got your URL on it. It's got four aa batteries and it'll be my fly back forever now I carry a little bag of aaa batteries as well and then the gift that we're going to talk about today really. Is the backup battery right. We talk about iPad and iPhone and flashlights and flashlights. On our phones and all that stuff takes juice right and that juice will inevitably run out on us. Yes so, I carry a company. I've always used this brand for some reason called raff. Power are a vpo. We probably bottom all on amazon but the amount of power in each of those batteries is important. And you need to make sure you can charge the things you want to charge the battery. I have will actually charge my iPad. An iPad mini in a phone. All one time. So they could all be drained. And I’ll be recharged with that battery one time And that's assuming. I have no power source in my aircraft. I am not making a stop somewhere. That I could charge those items But you definitely need a good battery in. This is a great gift for Christmas idea. to make sure you have a battery. I think you carry a battery. Almost be crazy not to carry some battery source with you. Usb plugs the where you could use entertainment cables etc. to be able to charge your devices. Yeah, one of the. I joked that one of the biggest challenges. I have on a day where I’m giving to check. Rides is keeping my stuff charged First thing I do. When I sit in to the briefing room is start plugging stuff in and you know it's usually first thing in the morning my phone. My iPad is already at probably ninety six percent anyway but First thing I do is plugged that stuff in and keep it charged I've been on I can think of to check rides on the last couple of years where we basically had to divert on the check ride because of weather of afternoon thunderstorms that role in here in Houston and We went out and did their work in and couldn't get back to our home airport here. David Wayne Hooks so we ended up in airports. Twenty miles north air Conroe and as we were flying around trying to Forgot if we actually wanted to go to Conroe you know. I'm looking at my iPad down at eighteen percent. Sixteen percent fourteen percent and this particular airplane didn't have usb capability on the panel And it was one of those things. Where gee I wish I would have taken off with my iPad at one hundred percent rather than sixty percent and in that that particular day My battery was dead. So You know we. We did end up. Diverting into Conroe and sat there for about an hour and a half and then flew back size. April. Get everything charged but Keep your staff charged and have a backup plan. Have a backup to the backup. Even if you know you can go that far. Well it makes a good point to some sort of a pouch to carry your cables and make sure you have the cables so if someone else has a battery or you find a wall al at that you can at least plug it in for sure. another big gift ideas. Obviously, a pilot's dream headset. I know when I started flying. I remember who gave me the advice but they said just cheap one. As you're working on your private and that ultimately become your backup when you make the decision by nice one. And I think I repeat that pretty often now with new students come in. Hey start with a lower end version something. That's not noise cancelling. You want to hear the engine you want to know what's going on with the plane that will ultimately become your backup headset And maybe you're someone like me. Who has that backup. It's but his dreaming of that really. Nice noise canceling headset This is a great gift idea. That's something that we're all going to get even though we might want it. Lots of versions out there I I’m David Clarke. Dealer here is systems. They make two or three really good noise. Cancelling headsets Excise and if you're a glasses where they sell a small ear cup when that your glasses can fit over. They obviously sell the over the ear. pro x ones and the I’m going to blank on the name now and I’m trying to but to other over the ear. Noise cancelling headsets. They're really good And obviously people ask about Bose all the time there's very few bows dealers out there so the twenty is great They sell an in the ear flight. Now that is also noise cancelling But I don't. I don't really recommend noise. Cancelling for the hundred twenty our pilot since we recorded a few weeks ago while they have listened to the killing zone which was a great book actually lots of case studies but a lot of that in the book and even references menu. Might want to be able to hear the engine when you're in the killing zone which is about one hundred and twenty hours three hundred hours For any of those anomalies But it is nice to have noise canceling headset. What I find most valuable about minus canceling headset as the Bluetooth connectivity. So then have to be noise.
Cancelling the have that Bluetooth connectivity. But if you do have four flight and you're on an apple device that you can connect to that Bluetooth. Get the warnings that your iPad is telling you from four flights so traffic. Two o'clock five hundred feet below. You will actually come through your ears. Which is very valuable. Or you're entering or about the cross a runway while you're taxing at an airport Four fly will make those warning costs to you both on the ground in the air which is a great value for the Bluetooth capabilities. Whether or not you have noise. Cancelling yeah I. I agree the that Bluetooth capability I fly my home. Airport is an uncontrolled airport. And will we have to do there. Is we have to call on the telephone to Houston clearance delivery to get our clearance and then they want us to call at the end of the runway to be released and so obviously the end of the runway. You're sitting here with the engine running. It's extremely convenient just to Bluetooth it and make the phone. Call him sitting right there. Were Cleveland runway. Three four hundred eighty to go and you're talking to the controller through your head said it's an it's a very clear call You know I. I also have a Bose twenty I have used a light speed. I got my seaplane rating up in Alaska several summers ago. That's what they had in the airplanes and it worked great as as you know just as well as the Bose. I still have my original green. David Clarke headset I can't even tell you what model it is. But it's close to forty years old and it still works just fine courses not noise cancelling But it's a. It's a forty-year-old headset. That works just fine There is something. That's kind of cool. About the David Clarks on rent along. Everybody knows everybody knows exactly what it is. And it's kind of like ray ban aviators. You know you see that you think. Oh that person might be a pilot When you see that on someone, I'll just tell a fun story. The for the first time I ever really used a noise canceling headset. I didn't have one. My daughter had one. I bought her on In I asked if I borrow one day. I was going to fly pilots her pit for patients trip and I went down to Ellington airport and picked up to patients and was flying them back to Monroe Louisiana. This isn't a one seventy-two and we taxied out we get on the wrong way and We take off and probably about a hundred feet it to me that I had not actually turned on the noise cancelling feature of the headset. So the controller was right there on my lap and I just reached down and I hit the power button and somewhere around two hundred feet than the noise. Cancelling feature turned on which If you've ever experienced this it sounds like the engine stops turns off and I guess I didn't jump because my patient and then his wife didn't react anything but I th- I really think I almost came out of my skin because I thought the engine quit and then I realized okay. Okay note to self. Don't do that at that point in time anymore. But the noise cancelling scher makes things. Nice I mean when you when you're in the airplane and your batteries die all of a sudden you lose that noise cancelling capability. The headset still works just fine. Just the noise. Cancelling doesn't work and it's kind of a wakeup call here lead in here before for strike. Exactly we you said ray bans. Let's talk about the next one. Some good sunglasses. Yeah, we've picked on some sunglasses recently inside conversations.
Mostly polarized options Because they're so bad in in in the plane when you want to see four flight on your iPad or you want to see the screens of a g one thousand or even the screen of a four thirty polarize is really a problem for pilots. What it does to the screens for us We sell some Sir jetties in our flight school here. It's a really high-quality aviator sunglass company. That makes different tense of sunglasses. But none of them are polarized And there it's a great option If you have a pilot in your life that may not have a really repair sunglasses glasses by them. A really good pair of non-polarized sunglasses for Christmas and they will be very appreciative of those. Yeah, and if you go on any sunglass shop and you tell them I want. Non polarized the first thing they're going to say you must be a pilot. And I I’d little tip. I showed Wally couple of weeks and we were recording something. There's something you can buy on amazon. Probably other places but it's called hydro vocals. It's a little sticker which is actually readers That stick on the inside part of a la of sunglasses or any type of lasts for that matter that will turn Any normal pair of glasses into bifocals. And it doesn't inhibit your site Linux site their gray little devices they can be trimmed with decisions and fit right on your glasses. They can be removed and put-on other glasses so on my really nice polarized sunglasses. I put these fifteen dollars plus two stickers on my glasses and I. I'm using reading glasses while I’m on the in the plane which is on my medical and I have to have those so very beneficial for me to have the far-sighted out of the aircraft so I can see long distances and then have that little sticker to help me read and see the cockpit and things that you see inside the cockpit so very valuable little add on that. You could add to those sunglasses as well next. We talk about the economics of flight training in the expense. The I bet any pilot would appreciate a few hundred bucks on their account. What do you think. Wally definitely. A couple hundred bucks on my school account would make me a happy man. Maybe a gift card from a flight school or from a flight shop Pilots aren't going to let that stuff go to waste so gray gift idea would be a gift certificate a gift card couple of hundred bucks on their account get them a couple extra hours in the air that they might not be able to get is always a good gift. Yeah, another novelty is not novelty item. That I think it would be great is anything. That's personalized with their name or tail number so if they own a plane and they have a faith and they have a tail number on that plane or they have a plane. They fly all the time that they favor tail number. I think everyone likes that tail number on a hat. a bag. their name on a flight bag. A bag is always like a purse. I think to a woman. They all have their preferences. Big small little pockets big pockets strap no strap a fly bags going to be hard for you to pick the perfect fly back for someone But if you do and they know their pervy fly back. Put their name on that bag. It would mean a lot to tow pilots have their name or tail number on that bang. Yeah, I think. I think all of us have our little quirks and I actually we have to airplanes and have a piper Saratoga and a Cessna one seventy-two and I have chocks with a tail number of the airplane on the chocks so we have to such a chocks airplane hangar. Rather and they're exactly the same but They each have the tail number of the airplane that they go to and There are times it. I'll go in the hangar and other people have flown the airplanes and the chalks are backward. And it's just wrong. I. I have to stop and go move the chalks around again. The functionality of the chocks are exactly the same that the same thing. But I look at that and go how. How could somebody do that. So I know what you mean about the personalization of the of the items. That is a nice little touch. The last I guess smaller item. We'll talk about here is a kneeboard While he said he didn't use one coming up in his aviation career. I've kind of always used one really from instrument on. I don't think. I didn't private instrument on. I did And I’ve got a pretty nice kneeboard that holds an iPad mini on one side. And as you open it up. It's got a note pad on the other side. So I wear it on my right leg. I opened up that no pets on my left flag. I've got visuals of everything. I need. Charts maps visual reference. While I’m flying on my right leg and then take notes on my left leg. I get radio numbers squawk codes. I write down Iof are clearances. Whatever that might be. I can handwrite. That all is well. And that's the that. I have bought a lot of kneeboard Wally in in in search of a better one and I just haven't found one yet so probably another personal item that people will have preference to But a good kneeboard whether someone starting their instrument training or just starting learn how to fly they probably have things they need on an e board as relates to sectionals paper. Take notes put a pen in there You can't go wrong with an e board for sure. Yeah, and one thing that we talked about his As we are going to our list of good gifts ideas, we brought up the idea of hand-held radio and I thought that was interesting. That that both of us sort of I certainly wasn't scripted. But both of us Really have the same thought about a hand-held radio. I thought about all maybe five or six years ago. That I really needed a hand-held radio and So you were a Christmas gift from my family. I said boy. This is the one I want. I picked out the one. That had the I l capability built into it and You could save all these frequencies. And I got it. Open it up on Christmas day. Put the batteries in it. Played with it and Quite frankly it sits in my hangar most of the time. When I fly.
Don't take it with me So that might be something that I don't know I would really think long and hard over whether this is You know because they're few hundred dollars If that's money well spent y- with you. And I did the same thing I bought one for myself. I wanted that. I s I l less capabilities and I think it sits in my cabinet over here Almost all the time And I. I don't know that it was a waste of money because I definitely listen to the pattern. Sometimes and I know that. I I’ve gotten some value out of when I’ve been taxing around the airport with the with the golf court and have it But it's I don't want anyone to think we're saying that you should never need one or never carry one. Because that's just not what we're saying but I’m not sure it was as valuable of a gift idea. I thought it was going to be exam. And I would say it just wouldn't be the top of my list right for sure. What was the other bad idea. We thought of with thought that Maybe the Idea of an electronics e six b would might not be the best investment right man. When I started my Schmidt training. I thought that was going to be so valuable and it might help a little bit. But it's not as valuable as you would think in Ryan I every time I’ve used on electronic six. Be the learning curve. I have to sit there and try to figure out how to make it work. And by the time I actually figure it out You know there's seventeen key strokes to figure out something that would have been to twists of a wheel. Use the old fashioned one. So I agree. Yeah, I think people think is going to help them so much on the written or the knowledge exams and it may help some. but it's not earth shattering. I think learning how to use the older style. Sixty using that to do your calculations you're probably going to get closer to the answer the faa's looking for than some drawn out decimal point that you're rounding and I think it will both get you the right answer but one's going to be a little bit more visually easy to terai. Herbert based on the a question and answer We we've talked about a lot of gift ideas. Let's run through some novelty items that she can probably never go wrong with a as it relates to pilots and these are stocking stuffers. Are maybe a package that you could create for your aviator in your life I'm a keychain fanatic. My bag probably has dozens of keychains on it from the classic. Remove before flight read keychain pilot or aircraft keys which is read united flight systems. We have our own custom key chain that we had out as a marketing tool In there's a lot of new cool things coming out My chief pilot got on with southwest airlines and found a an aluminum was actually part of a skin. The one of the first southwest airlines aircraft dry other had been retired and they take those skins and they cut him into keychains We carry the we carry some Boeing stuff. We carry some Airbus things in our in our in our gifts gift area that our old scans and it's got the tail number. You can look pictures of those planes. The go wrong with the keychain. Yeah, that's very interesting. I just. I just got a new car and I was trying to buy a cover for the key. Fob and I was googling it and I ended up on At a site. Which I think my family my girls in my family know about is called itsy. And it's basically people who are crafty and making cool things. And so I ended up buying this keychain for my minute ir this key fob cover for my jeep from this this site called. It's the and as I was there, I was looking around at other keychains. There's all kinds of aviation related keychains on there. That some very creative people are making a lot of Resin key change with airplanes embedded in there and Some really neat things. Yeah, a lot of those small Airplane models that are in teaching like that now. I just realized recently or actually same. The same thing. There's concords that are made out of melted down pieces of the skin from an original concord. So that's got a floating concord in that a poxy or resin and that's really metal from one of the original concourse of really cool nippy stuff Right now covid. Were still in the midst of covid. You can't go wrong with an aviator's mask I saw and bought a bunch of red masks for the flight.
School that say removed says don't remove before flight so that you have a red mass that you're wearing Obviously not to remove it You can buy masks with your home airport on it. So any part of the sectional print put on a mask. Whether it'd be sexual or you want to low and route chart. You could probably get anything you wanted. Printed on a mass today so Go search the googles for that kind of stuff. Sox are always fun. Yeah, aviation socks with left. Rudder right rudder on the bottom of them or Airport codes or runways. There's all kinds of aviation sock out there. You can go wrong with that We talked about it. We talked about it. Really referencing a bag but a hat a shirt with your tail number or type of aircraft. That you're rated. The fly is always a good one We've offered behind the proper gear in the past. If you give show ideas you could earn yourself a coffee mug and get yourself a little bit of behind the prop gear. That would be a good gift or stocking stuffer for your aviator in your life. Coasters are always fun in the form of a six pack from a from a Cessna one single engine trainers that you've may be flown in the past We sell a q. Bottle opener upfront. Got the far code on eight hours bottle. The throttle so that Any knickknack like that referencing aviation be great gift ideas for the eight in your life right. I agree all right. Well that's a long episode. Hopefully we all get the gifts we want for Christmas. Hopefully this show will give the person in your life. That's going to buy you a gift. Some really good ideas from expensive to fun and cheap We hope always enjoyed the show. Anything to wrap with walling. now just We appreciate all the listeners. are our downloads are trending up and getting more and more feedback. We thank you for all the positive feedback again. You can write either one of us at Wally. But behind the probe dot com or bobby it behind the prop dot com. If you have any questions or I do for a show We would be glad to Listen to your input. And we'll get back to you and I’ll say if you if you are finding any value in the show Share with a friend. Pass it along to a post on social media. Let others know that the podcast exists so they can find it. And if you really like. Give us a five-star review and apple or wherever. You're listening to podcast. It would mean a lot to both of us as always fly safe and stay behind the prop.
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