Sep 9, 2026 · 50 min · 11 segments
There's a lot more happening at your local airport than what you can see from the other side of the fence. In Episode 13 of Turning Base, Brandon sits down with Emily Herron, Airport Manager of…
Emily HerronGuest
Brandon RedekerHost
You know, it's interesting because you bring up what most people think about aviation and different jobs, right? You have the military and you have the airlines.
Because there there's so much to the world of aviation and especially just in private and general aviation.
I was having a conversation with somebody the other day and we were talking about how it doesn't matter what your personal interests or even your personal gifts are.
You can do whatever it is that you're good at or that you'd like to do inside aviation.
If you want to be in finance, if you want to be in operations, if you want to be, I mean, there's just something for everybody within aviation, which is what makes it really cool, I think.
And the amount of people on the ground, all the different jobs, as you said, that make aviation possible.
And so sometimes, yeah, people just see, you know, the airstrip, right? They just see like this big field with the runway and they're like, what's going on there? Or, you know, they see these private jets and they're like, oh, they just kind of see it as like, that's an expensive thing.
Yes, they are expensive, but they're tools, right? And not everybody understands that.
You know, it's interesting because you bring up what most people think about aviation and different jobs, right? You have the military and you have the airlines.
Because there there's so much to the world of aviation and especially just in private and general aviation.
I was having a conversation with somebody the other day and we were talking about how it doesn't matter what your personal interests or even your personal gifts are.
You can do whatever it is that you're good at or that you'd like to do inside aviation.
If you want to be in finance, if you want to be in operations, if you want to be, I mean, there's just something for everybody within aviation, which is what makes it really cool, I think.
And the amount of people on the ground, all the different jobs, as you said, that make aviation possible.
And so sometimes, yeah, people just see, you know, the airstrip, right? They just see like this big field with the runway and they're like, what's going on there? Or, you know, they see these private jets and they're like, oh, they just kind of see it as like, that's an expensive thing.
Yes, they are expensive, but they're tools, right? And not everybody understands that.
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