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“Unfortunately, when I put my hobbies into shows I’m creating, it usually makes the hobby a little less interesting to me. I don’t want to kill the joy of flying airplanes.”
“I’d never flown on a glass panel before so it was daunting for a minute,” he said. “I was wondering if maybe I had made a mistake, but now I feel like I could never go back. It’s been amazing.”
By July, Linson felt ready to set out on a long trip in the King Air. With Fell alongside, he used the time to scout locations and environments for possible production projects.
They covered 5,636 nautical miles in eight days from his home hangar at Camarillo Airport (KCMA) with stops in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico; El Paso, Texas; New Orleans, Louisiana; Fort Lauderdale and St. Petersburg, Florida; Turks & Caicos; Eleuthera, Bahamas; and Hobbs, New Mexico. They skirted behind a hurricane one day and another day finished a 1,200 nautical mile stretch from St. Petersburg to Hobbs with an hour of fuel remaining.
“The plane flew incredibly well with no issues,” Linson reported.
Studying the Culture
We had to ask Linson if there’s a chance we’ll see a show with an aviation storyline, given that two hit TV franchises emerged from his interests.
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