828. A Day in the Life of a Major Airline Pilot with Vince Kramer

Discover Your Talent–Do What You Love

Don Hutcheson

Education, Business, Self-improvement, Careers

5.0 • 619 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2019

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Vince Kramer is a thirty-seven-year airline and military pilot with over 200,000 hours in aircraft and flight simulators. In the U.S. Air Force he was a pilot, instructor & evaluator. He is a combat veteran with over one hundred combat hours during Desert Storm. He has flown for United Airlines and American Airlines as an airline transport pilot, has held positions in management and as an instructor/evaluator at United Airlines, and currently is an active pilot at United Airlines.

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0:00.0	Hello, world, welcome to discover your talent, do what you love.
0:14.2	I'm your host, Don Hutchison.
0:16.1	Every Monday and Wednesday, I interview someone from around the world who's discovered their talents to do work
0:22.2	they love to create a life of success, satisfaction, and freedom. On Fridays, I interview an
0:28.7	individual with many years of experience from one of the top-ranked occupations or professions
0:33.9	who share an insider's look at what it's really like to do what they do.
0:38.4	The people in the aviation world love their jobs. It's part of them. It's in their blood.
0:45.6	So if you're interested in any specific occupation in the aviation world, my recommendation
0:52.8	is to reach out to somebody who's doing the job that you want to do
0:56.8	because everybody's so excited about sharing their job
1:00.6	and sharing what it takes to get there and what their job's all about.
1:05.7	The United Airlines is no different than the other majors,
1:09.3	and they have opportunities all the time for you to go
1:12.4	to the training center and see the simulators or or go to the operation centers and see what
1:18.7	the dispatchers do just to give them an opportunity to see what happens on the ramp and and how
1:25.2	everybody goes through the processes that they need to to move into those
1:30.2	positions.
1:31.2	Today I'm delighted to bring you our featured guest, Vince Kramer, and our topic, A Day in the
1:37.2	Life, what's it really like to be a major airline pilot?
1:41.2	Welcome, Vince.
1:42.2	Well, thanks, Don.
1:43.1	It's so good to be here. This is kind of exciting,
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