Airline Pilot Memes

Pilot to Pilot - Aviation Podcast

Justin Siems

Leisure, Hobbies, Business, Aviation, Careers

4.9 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2017

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

What is going on #Avination?! In today’s episode, I am talking with Derek from Airline Pilot Memes. Derek is a current major airline pilot and one of the most popular meme artists of 2017. That's right kids it’s 2017 and you can be a meme artist. Some of the things we talk about in the episode.

What it is like being a meme artist.
Why he started Airline Pilot memes.
How he walked away from a well paying civil engineering job to become a pilot.
How he was able to finish his training in 8 months.
Odd jobs he picked up at the airport to help pay for his training.
And some hilarious epic aviation stories.

If you enjoyed today's episode, please let us know. Either email us at [email protected] or reach out to us on Instagram @pilottopilot. Happy Flying #Avination! Justin Downlad The Pilot to Pilot podcast!

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0:00.0	Episode 13 of the Pilot to Pilot Podcast takes off now.
0:07.0	What is going on, Navy Nation and welcome back to the Pilot the Pilot
0:10.4	Podcast.
0:11.4	My name is Justin and I'm your host today we were talking with one of the most
0:15.2	famous aviation meme artist of 2017 that's right it's 2017 you can be a meme artist now
0:22.8	but we are talking with Derek from Airline Pilot Memes
0:26.2	and we talk about so much in this episode.
0:28.6	Some of the things that we talked about in this episode
0:30.6	are how Derek was a career changer. He had a job. He was being paid
0:34.0	over $60,000 to be a civil engineer and walked away from that. We talk about
0:38.2	why he walked away. How we finished his training within eight months of
0:42.0	quitting his job and how he had
0:43.4	side jobs to help pay for his job. We talk about the difficulties that he
0:46.4	faced in his training and how everyone will face their own difficulties in our own
0:49.6	training, how he flew five times a week, two times a day to finish his training as fast as possible.
0:55.2	There is so much more we talk about.
0:56.7	We talk about sports.
0:57.6	We laugh a lot and we talk about how this is the best job in the world and how right now is the best time to get into this
1:04.8	industry.
1:05.8	I cannot wait to share this episode with you guys.
1:07.8	It is such a good episode.
1:09.5	I think that everyone can take away something from this, whether you are looking to be a career change or
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