Hurricane Irma Relief – Remote Area Medical – Stan Brock Interview
Aviation News Talk podcast
Glass Cockpit Publishing
4.8 • 730 Ratings
🗓️ 13 September 2017
⏱️ 30 minutes
🧾️ Download transcript
Summary
Remote Area Medical (RAM) is working to deploy it’s fleet of aircraft to Puerto Rico, which will be the forward base from which their Cessna Caravan will fly supplies to the islands hardest hit by Hurricane Irma. RAM was founded over 30 years ago, and has helped provide medical services to over 100,000 people. They are looking for volunteer pilots and healthcare professionals to provide services in underserved areas in the U.S. and the Caribbean. They currently need pilots who can fly their Caravans and their King Air 200. You can find the Remote Area Medical webpage here and their Facebook page here. In this episode, we interview RAM founder Stan Brock about the organization, and learned how doctors, dentists, optometrists, and pilots can help the organization by volunteering their time, or donating money. Click here for the listener survey. Tell us what flight planning tools you use when planning a longer flight. Please visit my new Patreon page and make a contribution to help me with my goal of improving the AviationNewsTalk.com website. You can Dictate a listener question from your phone and I’ll try to answer it on a future show, or send an email.
Transcript
Click on a timestamp to play from that location
| 0:00.0 | We're trying to work out a large transport aircraft to take several tons of material to |
| 0:09.8 | Puerto Rico because of the runway length being so short at Tortola. |
| 0:15.3 | And then we would deploy the caravan to Puerto Rico and that would shuttle the supplies and also doctors and nurses |
| 0:24.6 | in and out of Tortola, and also St. Martin, Dutch St. Martin, which was hit so terribly bad as well. |
| 0:33.1 | Hello, and thank you for joining us on Aviation News Talk for a newsmaker's edition, |
| 0:37.2 | where we talk to people who are making the news. |
| 0:39.9 | All this week, we're talking about Hurricane Harvey and Irma and how general aviation pilots are responding to the needs of victims of the storm. |
| 0:48.1 | And in a moment, we'll be sitting down with Stan Brock, founder of Remote Area Medical, a volunteer group based in Tennessee, that for many |
| 0:55.5 | years has provided services to people in need. So buckle up because this Newsmaker edition starts now. |
| 1:23.1 | Thank you. Welcome to Aviation News Talk, where we talk about the very best of general aviation and the people in this industry. |
| 1:30.9 | I'm Max Druscott, and if you're new to the show, we usually have a weekly show that shares pilot safety tips and general aviation news from around the world. |
| 1:38.0 | But this week, we can't ignore the death and destruction of hurricanes Harvey and Irma, so we're releasing our shows more frequently. |
| 1:44.5 | And we're focusing on how general aviation is responding to these disasters and how you as a listener can help. |
| 1:49.4 | In yesterday's show, we talked about Operation AirDrop, which flew a quarter million pounds of supplies into 32 Texas airports. |
| 1:52.7 | And that group formed spontaneously less than two weeks ago. |
| 1:56.9 | Earlier today, I spoke with Stan Brock, and he founded Remote Area Medical, a volunteer group based in Tennessee, more than 30 years ago. |
| 2:06.5 | Now let me tell you a little bit about Stan Brock. |
| 2:09.1 | Stan was born in England, but moved to Guyana at the age of 17, where he eventually became manager of a large cattle ranch. |
| 2:15.5 | He then started working on television and movie projects |
| 2:18.1 | starting in 1963, and you may remember him from Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom, a weekly |
| 2:24.1 | TV show in which Stan and others interacted with animals around the world. He's authored |
| 2:28.6 | three books about Guyana and starred in two films. In 1985, Stan founded Remote Area Medical, a nonprofit that provides free |
... |
Transcript will be available on the free plan in -2755 days. Upgrade to see the full transcript now.
Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Glass Cockpit Publishing, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.
Generated transcripts are the property of Glass Cockpit Publishing and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.
Copyright © Tapesearch 2025.