UAV News Talk

Max Trescott is President of Glass Cockpit Publishing, which owns the Aviation Podcast Network. He is the 2008 National CFI of the Year, selected to represent the 96,000 flight instructors in the U.S. He’s written three books on the Garmin G1000, G3000 and on GPS and WAAS and has online courses for the G1000 at PilotLearning.com. He's also trained in accident investigation at USC.

He lives in the S.F. Bay Area and is a Cirrus Platinum CSIP instructor teaching in Cirrus Aircraft, including the Cirrus SF50 Vision Jet. He became a cohost for the Airplane Geeks podcast in 2015. He started the Aviation News Talk podcast in 2017, which focuses on general aviation and safety. Of the over 250 aviation-related podcasts, Aviation News Talk typically ranks #1 or #2. He's also writes a monthly column for FLYING magazine.

David grew up around aircraft. His father was Base Civil Engineer for the USAF 913th TAG at Willow Grove, PA. His first toy was an airplane; from that point on he never stopped looking up. David graduated from Temple University with a degree in Military History and Diplomacy, focusing on the air wars of the Middle East. Realizing that there was no money in knowing about the Air Orders of Battle of Israel and the rest of the Middle Eastern States, and he needed to eat, he eventually landed in a career as a marketing professional.

He founded and co-hosted the original The UAV Digest podcast with Max Flight, who has since left the show. The show name was later changed to UAV News Talk.

David is a plastic modeler, photographer, and reader. You will always find him paging through books looking up some obscure piece of information, or “geeking” out on the latest episode of Doctor Who! He can be found on his blog What Just Flew By?