ATC Memes

Pilot to Pilot - Aviation Podcast

Justin Siems

Leisure, Hobbies, Business, Aviation, Careers

4.9 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 13 March 2018

⏱️ 86 minutes

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Summary

What is going on avination?! Welcome back to the Pilot to Pilot podcast. Today, I am talking with David Lombardo, a co-founder of everyone's favorite aviation meme page ATC Memes.

What we talked about in today's episode.

Pilots are more than just pilots.
How David loves Youtube and it is the epitome of the internet.
How the page really exploded when they messed around with audio.
We find out why David wanted to be involved with aviation.
He got into aviation because of video games.
Why it is important to have people to bounce ideas off of.
Why he didn’t want to be a pilot.
How a college professor inspired him to work with audio.
Why he left his job as a controller.
How news channels have used their content for real-life events.
Was he ever recognized while working ATC.
Were his supervisors every unhappy with him running the page.
David quotes the Kim Kardashian principle.
How ATC Memes and Airline Pilot memes had an epic meet up in Houston.
How a delivery went from a great idea to really awkward.
Why he decided to start selling aviation style apparel.
Why they decided to create leggings.
How David has always been an entrepreneur.
How to being creative can help you in your career.
Three tips to make a great internet page.
Create content and don’t be afraid to fail.
We find out where "say no to kilo came from."
My favorite Washington Center story.
His favorite moments from being a controller.
We talk about if Drone pilots are actually pilots.

Happy Flying Avination,

Justin

Transcript

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0:00.0	Episode 36 of the pilot the pilot podcast takes off now.
0:07.0	What is going on, Navy Nation, and welcome back to the Pilot the Pilot Podcast.
0:17.6	My name is Justin and I am your host coming live from 250 and now recording this intro, and I am so excited for this episode.
0:25.1	I'm talking to 1708, force there. How do you climb? 240?
0:33.0	2.40, Marker 1708.
0:35.0	I'm talking with David Lombardo.
0:37.0	You guys might know David from the popular site, ATC Meme.
0:41.0	David is the co-founder of ATC Meams. He was a former air traffic controller.
0:45.0	He went to Purdue University, studied aviation there.
0:48.0	So we find out why he became interested in aviation. We kind of why he didn't want that pilot. in We find out pretty much anything and everything about ETC memes, what happened and what was the beginning of say no to kilo, the aviation leggings and much more.
1:10.0	Aviation.
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1:19.8	Let us know on Facebook or you can DM us or comment on our Instagram. You can also email me a pilot to
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1:41.0	All you have to do is comment below on this post on my Instagram and I'll be choosing from the comments there.
1:45.0	It also helps if you leave a review on iTunes and make sure you do that and let me know when you leave a review.
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