Imagine flying in a remote environment where the weather is sketchy at best, the controllers don’t speak English, the instrument environment is primitive at best, and what few charts you do have are un-decipherable copies of copies of old charts designed in the 1950’s with procedures that no one has flown in the west …ever!
No aviation challenge I’ve ever experienced compares to the challenges, difficulties and dangers of operating in this remote part of the world, in an age before any of the digital innovations or navigational support we all take for granted today existed. Success depended as much on my aviation skills as my entrepreneurial acumen. My best-selling book, Cross Winds: Adventure and Entrepreneurship in the Russia Far East, describes this high-risk adventure to make an audacious multibillion dollar vision a reality. There I formed the second-ever Russian-American Joint venture, with the leaders of the region. In July of 1992, shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, I became the first American since Charles Lindberg, in 1931, to fly an aircraft into Far Eastern Russia and down the Kamchatka Peninsula.
My Most Difficult Landing Taught Me Why Pilots Are Natural Leaders He’s here today to tell us about his experiences landing Russian’s easternmost Siberian military airfield and how it shaped his understanding of leadership.
Myers has chronicled his adventures in his book Cross Winds: Adventure and Entrepreneurship in the Russian Far East, sharing how his experience as a pilot informed his work as a CEO and director of a number of public and private companies. In 2020, the FAA awarded him the Wright Brothers Master Pilot Award for 50 years of accident-free flying. I’m thrilled to bring you a special guest post this week by Steven Myers, a two-time US Air Force veteran with twelve jet-type ratings.
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