Casey Swift: Navy Growler Pilot

Pilot to Pilot - Aviation Podcast

Justin Siems

Leisure, Hobbies, Business, Aviation, Careers

4.9 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 11 August 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

Avination, welcome back to episode 130 of the Pilot to Pilot podcast. Today I am talking with Casey Swift aka @ig_swifftea on Instagram. Casey, a Naval academy graduate, talks about what life is like at the Naval Academy. What struggles he faced and what it looks like to be on academic probation at the Academy. Don't worry, we also talk about aviation, why he chose to fly the Growler and what his aviation training looked like.

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Happy Flying,

Justin

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0:00.0	Episode 1.30 of the Pilot the Pilot Podcast takes off now. My name is Casey Swift and I fly the EA-18G growler for the US Navy.
0:19.0	G.
0:20.0	Aviation, so that's kind of how I try to combine the two
0:27.4	What is going on aviation and welcome back to episode one-30 of the pilot. My name is Justin Seams and I am your host.
0:35.6	Today I'm talking with Casey Swift.
0:38.2	Casey is a growler pilot out in the Pacific Northwest.
0:41.0	He went to the United States Naval Academy. It might seem that
0:44.1	everything is just going great and has always gone great. But Casey and I have some
0:47.8	really good conversation today. We talk about kind of the downs of going to the
0:50.9	Naval Academy and the struggles that he has had to get the great job and the great aircraft that he's able to fly now.
0:57.2	So this is a great episode is one that I'm really proud of and I've been talking to Casey a while.
1:01.3	We've been trying to get this linked up forever,
1:04.0	but we finally have it going.
1:05.2	I'm on day eight of eight, currently in Napa,
1:07.3	getting ready to go fly to LAX and then airline home.
1:10.0	Somehow I talked them into getting me a first class seat,
1:12.2	so that's pretty sweet.
1:13.8	But I won't keep you any longer.
1:14.8	Thank you so much for listening to the podcast.
1:16.7	Share with all your friends.
1:17.6	Leave us a review and make sure to follow us on Instagram.
1:20.5	Maybe Nation without any further ado, here's Casey Swift. So I'm
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