Excerpt from General Aviation News - December 21, 2001

Randy Waldman flies to escape the music business

High above his high-pressure world of a Hollywood musician, Randy Waldman uses flying for relaxation and to enjoy what he calls a whole other mindset.

A piano prodigy since childhood, Waldman has been immersed in music his whole life. “All I ever did from the time I was 5 was play the piano,” he recalls. “"There was no thought of doing anything else.”About 15 years ago after watching people people flying radio-controlled airplanes and helicopters at a local field, he was hooked.

Waldman went on to earn his commercial, multiengine, instrument fixed-wing ratings, and his commercial and flight instructor helicopter ratings. Waldman currently gives helicopter instruction as a freelance instructor at local airports around Southern California, which allows him to complement his two passions, music and flying.

“After working all day in the recording studios, it’s great to get out to the airport and fly. I love getting to look at the studios from above instead of looking out from inside!” Waldman has owned and sold a Mooney 201 airplane and a 1957 Bell 47 helicopter. He instructs in a Hiller 12C, A Bell 47, an Enstrom F-28, a Robinson R-22, a Bell OH-58 and an Alouette 319B. For fun he sometimes flies a Piaseki H-21, a 20-seat tandem-rotor military helicopter.