Exploration Pilot (ePub)

Kendall Krogstad’s initial education was in the sciences, a domain that fascinated him from his childhood experiences (why is the image in a mirror backwards?). In his initial college years, he focused on physics and mathematics, working toward a career in engineering. Marriage and family intervened, and he began flying at age twenty-four. He flew commercially for twenty years. His flying niche was not as a “bus driver” but as a production pilot for mapping photography and exploration.

Besides flying airplanes from single engines to jets for the gathering of data, Krogstad immersed himself in the sciences of the remote-sensing disciplines. Airborne magnetometry, spectrometry, and multispectral photography were new techniques at the time, requiring sophisticated equipment and demanding precision flying expertise. The equipment packages were sometimes one-of-a-kind, and Krogstad self-educated himself in analog and digital electronics to be able to troubleshoot equipment faults in remote environments. Flying countless, undocumented missions, he also managed flights through multiple mishaps and life-threatening experiences that challenged his resourcefulness and resolve. Through it all, he built an enviable reputation for dependable airborne production.
His final experience was life-threatening in a most unusually criminal scenario. He escaped unharmed but for lasting psychological scars, and he never flew again.

Krogstad found a new life in technical analysis and writing, completing a degree in computer science and finally earning an MBA degree. Retiring after a successful second, eighteen-year career, he never revisited his flying experiences until this book, written more than thirty years after the fact.

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