Episode description
What is going on Avination, welcome back to the Pilot to Pilot podcast episode 53 featuring David Campbell. David is 49 Private pilot who walked away from a high paying job to start his career in aviation. Some of the things David and I talk about in this episode are.
- Why David left a $100,000 a year job to start training and learn to become a pilot.
- How David originally went to college to become a pilot.
- Why David didn’t finish his pilot training at Western Michigan.
- How struggles in college and not seeing how he could pay for flying cause David to stray from his dream in college.
- How flying has always been expensive and always will be expensive.
- We talk about if David regrets any of the decisions he made in the past.
- How he had a good friend who finished his training at Western Michigan and quit flying farther down the line.
- How aviation is something that will rule your life.
- How an annual goal sheet helped David get back into aviation.
- David quit his job without a plan of action for whats next.
- How he used AOPA to find a local flight school.
- How seeing someone older than him complete his training helped David realize that it is a real possibility.
- David and I talk about when is it too late to make the switch.
- What to do when debating on switching careers.
- Is it too late for you to change?
- How it is important to make a plan when you switch careers.
- Its not going to be an easy switch so make sure your family is okay with it.
- The importance of using your GI bill to pay for your flight training.
- How easy it is to make excuses to not go fly.
- The first flight David went on after his checkered was to propose to his GF.
- What it is like to get your PPL while you are working.
- We talk about some things that can keep you from getting your PPL.
- David talks about a 10 hour flight in a LSA down to the Bahamas.
- We talk about how Foreflight has changed the game.
- We talk challenges of owning a plane.
- Differences between the corporate route and commercial route.
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Happy Flying,
Justin