The Pro-Pilot Playbook Podcast Pro-Pilot Playbook

Mike and Sean interview Brandon after recently failing his Private Pilot Checkride. However, there's a lot more to this story than what you might think. This is a great story for anyone who is getting close to taking their first Practical Pilot Test.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
01:23 Brandon's introduction and background
05:56 Brandon's flight training
11:00 Private pilot checkride
20:54 No sleep
23:20 Weather
27:00 Ferry pilot problems
32:50 The oral starts
36:00 Family friend died
40:35 Plane doesn't start
43:50 Flight portion begins
44:10 Cross-country snafu
46:40 Engine out procedures
51:05 A huge learning experience
1:00:10 Won't see these stories on the internet
1:02:53 We learn from failing
1:04:40 Brandon's shout out to Pro-Pilot Playbook
1:06:05 Wrap up- TAKE ACTION!

Mike and Sean jump a little off the career path rails to discuss a technical topic involving the use the very popular ForeFlight aviation app from the point of view as a professional pilot. We also address the possible downsides of using this powerful application early on in your training especially working towards your Private Pilot Certificate.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
01:47 Sam's question
05:02 What is ForeFlight?
06:53 Not for primary Private Pilot training
09:33 Sean's day-to-day using ForeFlight
12:00 Fuel planning
16:01 Back-up instruments
18:55 Poor man's TCAS
20:20 All charts are included
21:46 Logbook function
23:28 Runway analysis data
25:45 Airlines using ForeFlight
26:35 Other aviation apps
28:38 Wrap up- TAKE ACTION!
29:00 New products released on the Pro-Pilot Playbook site 

Mike and Sean answer two viewers questions this week concerning how to become an ultra successful corporate pilot and earn a comparable salary of our major airline counterparts. Basically a step-by-step guide to start an aircraft management company.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
03:08 Bryan's video question
05:55 Answering peoples email
06:33 What is a contract pilot
11:19 Using Facebook groups to find contract pilot jobs
12:40 Buying a type rating to do contract pilot work
15:04 Adam's email question
17:55 How to start an aircraft management company
22:07 How to be a good contract pilot
24:00 It all comes back to networking
26:30 First steps as a low time pilot
30:12 New products released on the Pro-Pilot Playbook site
30:45 Take action!

Sean & Mike sit down with John Zimmerman from Sporty's Pilot's Discretion Podcast which is possibly the most downloaded aviation podcast in history.
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Are the latest headlines about slowing airline pilot hiring just a temporary pause or the start of a downward trend? In this episode, aviation career mentors Mike Martin and Sean Richey explain what the real state of the industry is. They also talk about the right approach to flight training, how to build time, and whether airline interviews still matter. Mike and Sean have lots of experience as corporate pilots, so they share tips from the world of private jets, including the different skills required for that type of job. In the Ready to Copy segment, you’ll hear about tough checkrides, how to be a good copilot, and the best airports in America.
QUOTES:
- Current hiring trends: “There’s a difference between the hiring surge that we had and the true pilot shortage that’s going on in the background.”
- Airline hiring 25 years ago: “Your first year you made like $22,000; you had to pay $18,000 back to them for your training.”
- Where we are now: “There is no greater time in the history of man, since the Wright brothers first flew, to become a professional pilot.”
- What type of flight school is best: “At the end of the day, you’re going to get the same certificates and ratings no matter what you do.”
- Why waiting to start flight training can cost you: “For every year you wait, you gotta think about those big bucks on the back end of your career.”
- Competition between employers: “This large airline hiring is sucking pilots out of the corporate world like a vacuum cleaner.”
- Corporate jobs vs. airline jobs: “The actually volume of flying you is way less. There are many corporate pilots that fly as many hours annually as an airline pilot does in one month.”
- How to break into corporate flying: “Be at the airport… you need to be at these airports and you need to see yourself seen and known.”
- What makes a good copilot: “The ability to distinguish what’s important from what’s not important.”
- Flying celebrities: “I had a perception before I did this… [that] money doesn’t buy happiness and all that. I actually think after years of doing this that that’s a coping mechanism that us poor people say.”
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Sean & Mike talk with Daniel Smucker on how he was able to achieve his Instrument rating in just 10 days.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
03:10 Daniel's story
11:02 How Daniel financed his training
14:50 How he achieved Instrument rating in 10 days
18:20 Accelerated commercial pilot license
21:38 Hacks for sharing time via Face Book groups
24:40 Owning a plane for training
29:40 Borrowing an airplane for training
33:04 Accelerated Multi-engine rating
38:28 Flight training with brother as CFI
42:20 Working on CFI and Networking
46:11 Daniel idea for starting a flight school
47:40 Is ATP flight school accelerated training?
49:00 How did it all cost?
52:00 Right seat in a jet
54:30 Daniel's advice to aspiring pilots
56:20 Networking at the airport

Sean & Mike answer two listeners video questions on the pilot marketing softening and whether it's worth buying your own type rating in an aircraft.
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CHAPTERS:
00:00 Intro
01:56 Steve's question
09:02 Truckers becoming professional pilots
10:53 Ground school before flight training
14:25 Skipping the regional airlines
14:58 Hiring slowing down at the airlines
16:56 Buy your own type rating?
22:32 Good companies want good people
25:06 Expensive training on speculation
25:51 Finance it and accelerate it
27:00 Take action