Pilot Earns His Wings As An Inventor


Inventors Digest:

When Rick Foreman earned his flying wings some 13 years ago, he didn’t realize his journey would lead him to take flight as an inventor.

Pilots are required to carry fresh batteries to power hand-held devices such as GPS, flashlights, transceivers, headsets and intercoms. Typically, Foreman would keep batteries in a small baggie or wrap them together with a rubber band. Few options were available to allow a pilot to access and dispense batteries quickly and with one hand. Flying the airplane is always the number one priority.

“I carried fresh batteries in my flight bag,” he says, “but could not find a good method for making sure they did not roll around. I wanted to be able to find them quickly, access them one at a time to keep the others from falling out of the package and still fly the airplane.”

Thus the Personal Battery Caddy was born. Pilots can keep one hand on the yoke while reaching for batteries. It’s also an excellent home, hobby and workplace companion.

“Everything that happened, good or bad, brought me to where the product is today,” he says. “It was a learning process along the way, but we always kept an open mind and believed in our product.”

Photo by Tools Aviation, LLC.

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