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Host of Aviation Careers Podcast. For more about me go to AviationCareersPodcast/About.
Careers, Helicopter Pilot, Law Enforcement, Podcast

ACP150 California Highway Patrol Pilot Jan Sears

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CHP Pilot Jan Sears

In this episode, we interview California Highway Patrol Pilot Jan Sears. Jan is passionate about aviation and has a unique path towards his career goal and will share with us.

Announcements:

Facebook.com/AviationCareersPodcast page is great for learning about new episodes, asking questions and discussing careers in aviation. I am also going to be adding announcements for quick meet ups for cities I am going to be in. If you would like to meet up for a cup of coffee or lunch let me know under those posts!

Jan and I Discuss his journey to becoming a Pilot for the California Highway Patrol Pilot:

  • His passion for aviation and how it began at the young age of 10. His attempt to fly fighters and the challenges due to a medical issue as well as life as an EMT.
  • Hired by California Highway Patrol.
  • Moving to air operations with CHP.
  • The aircraft and missions of CHP.
  • His advice to aspiring pilots.

Pick Of the Week:

CHP Air Operations, Golden Gate Division

Links:

California Highway Patrol on Wikipedia

California Highway Patrol Aviators Division in Action

CHP Aviation VehiclesSan Francisco from a CHP CockpitCHP performing a rescue

Airline Pilot, Finance, Podcast

ACP149 Tips For High-Income Pilots Part 2 – Saving Smart

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In this episode, we continue our a new series titled “Tips for high-Income Pilots. This series will eventually be an online video course.

As a reminder, we are not allowed by law to give you financial advice but this is only general information. You should consult your financial advisor for information specific to your needs. We recommend your finding a fee-based certified financial planner who must comply with the FINRA rules and regulations. Fiduciary is important.

Announcements:

Aviation Careers Facebook Page
For upcoming meetups, career news, and all of the episodes.

Tips For High-Income Pilots:

  • Saving for retirement
  • What to do when you’re maxing out your retirement plan limit.
  • “Excess Benefit Plan” options
  • What if you have a 401(k), Profit Sharing Plan, and a 401(a) plan?
  • Getting within “visual range” of how much you might need – it’s not as simple as you might think

Pick Of the Week:

Airspeedandmoney.com

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Medfly, Pilot, Podcast

ACP148 Life Of A Medfly Pilot with Sean Edwards

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Have you ever heard of a Medfly pilot? Building flight time towards becoming an airline means flight instructing for most pilots. A unique way to not only build flight time but to build much sought after multi engine turbine time is as a Medfly pilot. Here to discuss this unique job is medfly pilot Sean Edwards.

Announcements:

Don’t forget to send us your questions at feedback@aviationcareerspodcast.com.

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Sean Discusses his Journey to Being a Medfly Pilot:

  • What is a Medfly?
  • How to find a job as a Medfly pilot.
  • The advantages of building turbine Multiengine time.
  • The Challenges of being a Medfly pilot.
  • Things you might not realize while building multi engine time as a Medfly pilot to advance your career.

Links:

A Day at Medfly

The Battle Over the Medfly

MEDITERRANEAN FRUIT FLY PREVENTIVE RELEASE PROGRAM

Image Credit:

Photograph by Scott Bauer, USDA

Color Blindness, Flight Instructing, Podcast

ACP147 Building Hours As A Flight Instructor, Color Blindness, and More.

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At Aviation Careers Podcast we receive many questions about building hours as a Flight Instructor. We also get questions about how to get over the hurdle of color blindness. In this episode Robert Guyer and Carl Valeri answer your questions about these and other topics.

Announcements:

Don’t forget to look for meet ups at on our Facebook page.

Listener Questions and Feedback:

Terminal Aerodome Forcast, Building Time as a Flight Instructor, and Color Blindness

  • A question about the Terminal Aerodrome Forecast, TAFS and how this helps with aviation and flight planning. This will be discussed in detail on a future episode and Stuck Mic AvCast.
  • Writer is 55, retiring from a 30 year career in finance industry, looking for advice on opportunities for professional pilots at his age and what kinds of things could give him a leg up.
  • Australian flight student, paid a flight school but then decided to leave, has not been able to get money paid back.
  • Comment about Dan Freeman’s comments about building time.
  • Is there a better test than the standard used for color blindness?

Pick Of the Week:

Foundation: Redefine Your Core, Conquer Back Pain, and Move with Confidence

Terminal aerodrome forecast

 

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Finance, Podcast

ACP146 Tips For High Income Pilots Part 1

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In this episode we start a new series called five tips for high Income Pilots. This series will eventually be an online video course. This podcast prepares you for your career as a pilot but one thing lacking is help for those pilots that listen who are high wage earners. In general in life once we start making over two hundred thousand a year there are not many avenues for advice and we hope to change that with this series.

Today I am joined by Andy Garrison, a Certified Financial Planner.

As a reminder we are not allowed by law to give you financial advice but this is only general information. You should consult your financial advisor for information specific to your needs. We recommend your finding a fee based certified financial planner who must comply with the FINRA rules and regulations. Fiduciary is important.

Announcements:

https://www.facebook.com/AviationCareersPodcast/
For upcoming meetups.

Tips For High-Income Pilots:

  1. The best three ways to reduce your lifetime taxes
    a. Don’t make it worse (minimize your investment taxes and withdrawals)
    b. If not meeting itemized deductions, bulk your giving and property taxes
    c. For charitable giving – consider assets and appreciated stocks
    d. Make the best use of your PS and RP contributions

Pick Of the Week:

Air, Speed, and Money Andy’s website, where you can sign up for his mailing list and receive a free copy of his book.

 

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Podcast, Questions Answered

ACP145 CFI Schools, Changing Careers, and Are Low Minimums A Red Flag?

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Welcome to the Inspirational, Informational, and Transparent Aviation Career Podcast. In this episode we answer your questions regarding CFI schools, changing careers, and low minimums a red flag.

Announcements:

AerospaceScholarships.com 2018 will be published in September. We are moving to a purely electronic book version with links to current information online in the future.

Our online courses are moving to a new platform and will be complete by the end of the year. If you have a membership already we will transfer to the new platform. Currently, the course can be individually purchased at https://valeri-aviation.thinkific.com and will be available as bundles once we move all courses to this new platform.

The new studio is almost open in Lakeland. We will be moving in the middle of July and will have a meetup soon after at KLAL.

CFI schools, changing careers, and low minimums a red flag:

  • Looking into accelerated CFI training programs, questions about where to go and recommendations
  • Feedback from an Air Force Veteran using my GI Bill for flight training
  • Would Medivac or Air Evac flying Leer Jets help with my career and building time?
  • Working at a great job flying a KingAir, dispersing sterilized fruit flies low to the ground next to a mountain

Pick Of the Week:

https://valeri-aviation.thinkific.com our new membership learning program.

Podcast, Questions Answered

ACP144 Confidence In Your Aviation Career and Flying Freight To Build Hours

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In this episode, we discuss flying freight to build hours, ab-initio programs amidst the pilot shortage, and having confidence in your aviation career.

Announcements:

Scholarships Deadlines are approaching.

One example is SMS Pro’s aviation scholarship. The deadline of July 1st is swiftly approaching.

The scholarship is $1,000 and only requires three 500 word mini-essays on aviation safety. The scholarship can be found in our book on iTunes or Kindle at AerospaceScholarships.com.

Update: the deadline for this scholarship has been extended to July 7th!

Listener Questions and Feedback:

  •  I have a similar story to Jim in Episode 137. Starting at 39, have kids and lots of bills, working as an AMP-IA. I would like to know if career changers have anything in the works to help career changers move forward.
  • Avid listener, Av Geek, working in finance. Based on the shortage, do you think airlines will start ab initio programs? Do you see the future of flying eliminating the need for First Officers or even Captains?
  • After high school, I started college to study Criminal Justice but when I tried to switch to Aviation I could not get funding. So I switched to a local flight school. I then found a university that accepted my training along with online learning to obtain a Bachelor’s in Aviation Science. After instructing, I found a job flying freight in a Leer 35. Would I be hirable by the majors after flying freight?
  • Finishing up 4-year service as an officer in the US Marines, just turned 29, entering into flight training program paid by GI Bill. Considering part 121, but also flying in the reserves as C130. Which is better?

Pick Of the Week:

Aviation Safety Management Scholarship from SMS-Pro

Podcast, Questions Answered

ACP143 Logbook questions, Challenges of Living on the Road, and When Do I make Six Figures?

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Welcome to the Inspirational, Informational, and Transparent podcast about all aviation careers. Today I will be discussing questions from listeners including logbook questions, the challenges of being on the road, and when you can expect to make six figures as an airline pilot.

Sponsor:

Thank you to our sponsor, Three Point Aviation Services, specializing in aviation seminars and training materials. Check out Three Point’s Facebook page, to browse its new collection of short aviation articles. It can be found at www.facebook.com/3pointaviation.

www.3pointaviation.com

Announcements:

Send your questions to feedback@aviationcareerspodcast.com

New Events upcoming on our Facebook page:

https://www.facebook.com/AviationCareersPodcast/

Want to advertise or sponsor an episode? It is only $50 per 1000 downloads and is a great opportunity to promote your event, product, or service.

Listener Questions and Feedback:

  • Working at an investment firm, currently considering switching to being a pilot, asking about different options.
  • What’s the amount of time I should expect to spend before getting to the regionals and majors, and when will I make six figures?
  • How often do pilots get furloughed, what’s the typical amount of time?
  • Teacher asks about when they should start learning to fly and obtaining their ratings.
  • A Student pilot, 90-day solo endorsement, which expired. What do I do now?
  • A 20-year-old private pilot, going into a 2-year degree program in the fall, looking for scholarships.
  • New to aviation, thanks to Lenny for coming back to share more inspiration, thanks to the podcast team for inspiration and information.
  • Truck driver pursuing aviation, looking for advice on getting his A&P.

Thank you to our sponsor, Three Point Aviation Services, specializing in aviation seminars and training materials. Check out Three Point’s Facebook page, to browse its new collection of short aviation articles. It can be found at www.facebook.com/3pointaviation.

www.3pointaviation.com

Pick Of the Week:

Advanced Holding Patterns Part 1

Finance, Flight Instructor, Podcast, Questions Answered, Regional Airlines

ACP142 Should You Sign A Long Term Contract As A Flight Instructor and More Questions Answered

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Welcome to the Inspirational, Informational, and Transparent Aviation Careers Podcast. Today Robert Guyer Joins me to Answer your questions, including one about whether you should sign a long term contract as a flight instructor.

Announcements:

If you are looking for coaching, the schedule has been getting really tight. If you are having trouble getting booked in the schedule please send an email to feedback@aviationcareerspodcast.com and we will try to get you fit in. I’ve been moving, as well as flying some red eye flights so it has been tough but I may be able to get you in while I am on the road.

 

Carl and Robert discuss If You Should You Sign A Long Term Contract As A Flight Instructor and More:

  • How the Cape Air to JetBlue program works
  • Should a CFI sign a long-term (1 year) contract, which could prevent them from moving on in their career?
  • Is an offer from a regional or major airline likely or a long shot when I barely meet the minimums?
  • Training on the weekends vs. training full time and part 61 vs. part 141
  • Can I get a first class medical when I am on a medication for anxiety?
  • Went through Civil Air Patrol for flight training, would love to share my experience.
  • 46 years old, Assistant Principal at a High School, never thought I could be a pilot, but now working towards a career change. What freelance flying jobs can I find to supplement CFI income? If pursuing a corporate aviation career, is it realistic to get hired at my age? Would a Masters in Education be valuable to the major airlines as a degree?
  • Robert has flown with a Captain that did some “high altitude gliding.”

Links Mentioned in this Episode:

Photo Credit: Jeff Kennon

Airline Pilot, Podcast

ACP141 The Podcast Is Moving To Lakeland, Florida

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The Podcast Is Moving To Lakeland, Florida! When choosing a career and where you want to live there are many factors you must consider. Some want to be close to work, others wish to be near their recreational activities, and others choose a town with good schools. One of the greatest benefits of being a crew member with an airline is your ability to live anywhere in the world. So why did we choose Lakeland, FL? We will discuss that below.

Announcements:

Coaching : Career Change Plan Of Action, Interview Prep, Resume and Cover Letter review.

Listener Questions and Feedback:

The school financing debacle is happening again.

Don’t Pay Any Flight School More Than $2500 In Advance: The Censored Information The Bad Guys Don’t Want You To Know

Better Business Bureau Online Complaint form

Federal Trade Commission Complaint Assistant

How To File A Consumer Complaint

Color Blindness

Why We Are Moving to Lakeland:

  • Location close to base.
  • Driving distance to two pilot bases.
  • Between two cities my company serves making it easy to commute to any base in the system.
  • Many aviation venues and air shows within 100 miles of Lakeland.
  • More opportunities to meet you the listener.
  • Close to Polk State College.
  • Sun N Fun Campus
  • Opportunity for me to fly more recreationally.
  • Compromise on living on an airport now we are living near one.

Feedback on Meetup and social events.

Map and Directions To Lakeland Airport

Pick Of the Week:

Officials cut ribbon on new NOAA Aircraft Operations Center