Hello all,
Sorry for the radio silence for the past little while, but I have been hard at work trying to get through college, and my ratings, as quickly as possible. Currently, I am an Instrument Rated Private Pilot and am about 80 hours into my commercial license. So far, I have flown almost every day this summer trying to build hours for commercial training. Normally, students here fly a max of four days a week. Also, to put it in perspective, I passed my private checkride just over a year ago. So, as you can see, I’ve been very busy with school and flying. The reason I am doing all of this is that I am trying to graduate in 3 years. Academically, I can do it no problem, but it’s the ratings that are slowing me down. With that being said, it has easily been the most fun summer getting to fly to all of the little airports around Nebraska.
Recently, I was given the opportunity to perform Taps on trumpet at the annual Oshkosh Memorial Service. It was such an amazing experience and I am so grateful to be given this opportunity. The best part of it was right when I began playing Taps, I looked up and the Aeroshell T-6 team was performing the missing man formation right over the memorial. It was truly amazing. HUGE thanks to John Zapp for giving me this opportunity. The rest of the day, I just walked around the grounds in utter amazement at the airplanes there. The last time I had been to Oshkosh, I was 13. Yes, I thought the planes were cool and all but being a pilot put the show in a whole other perspective. For those of you that were there, did you get a chance to see ‘Scrappy”, the 700hp STOL plane built by Mike Patey, outside the Garmin booth? Absolutely crazy. Sadly, I didn’t get very many pictures of Oshkosh because the camera on my phone is broken. But, I did get a selfie at the memorial service! Hopefully, EAA puts out some videos of the memorial so I can share my experience. Let me know what your favorite thing about Oshkosh was!
I’ll make sure to keep everyone posted on how my commercial training continues. Thank you to everyone taking the time out of their day to read this and I hope you are all doing well!
Also, I inserted a picture of one of the past flights I took to get my 100nm day and night flight out of the way. My instructor and I flew down to Stearman Field (1K1) to get dinner. If you are ever in the area, or just need a reason to get out and fly, I highly recommend it. Great food and great people.
Have a good one!
Scott Lutte
Nice to see your attitude is so positive, committed and energetic Keep it up. Thanks for the update. We’re proud of you!
Awesome man! OSH definitely was good this year, it was my first time there and it was amazing.
Good job, Scott.
(From a fellow trumpet player.)