David Campbell:

Pilot to Pilot - Aviation Podcast

Justin Siems

Leisure, Hobbies, Business, Aviation, Careers

4.9 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 2 April 2019

⏱️ 57 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

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.

If you enjoyed today's podcast make sure you leave a review on iTunes and check out our Patreon page.

Happy Flying,

Justin

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Episode 53 of the Pilot the Pilot Podcast takes off now.
0:10.0	David Campbell I'm a 49 year old private pilot that's aspiring to be a commercial pilot.
0:16.8	What is going on, Avi Nation, and welcome back to the Pilot the Pilot Podcast. This is episode number
0:21.9	53 featuring David Campbell.
0:24.8	David is a career changer.
0:26.5	He started out going to Western Michigan and wanting to be a pilot, realized how expensive
0:30.7	it was, and hey, college gets in the the way and then he decided to go to
0:33.6	construction and then at age 49 he decided to leave a hundred thousand dollar
0:38.0	or more career to leave that and become a pilot David is just the epitome of going after your dreams, of seeing a dream and wanting to do it.
0:46.8	He's always wanted to be a pilot and he didn't do it until he was 49 years old.
0:51.8	Some of the things that we specifically talk about in this episode
0:54.4	or how David has any regrets in the decision that he's made in the past. We talk
0:58.1	about how he had a good friend who finished his training at Western Michigan but
1:00.9	ended up quitting flying further down the line. We talk
1:04.0	about how aviation is something that is going to rule your life whether you're a pilot or not.
1:07.6	How an annual goal sheet helped David get back into aviation, how he used AOP to find a local flight school, how seeing
1:14.8	someone older than him complete his training helped David realize that this is a real
1:18.5	possibility, and the importance of using your GI Bill to pay for your flight training.
1:23.4	Avonation, I hope you truly enjoy today's episode. If you do, please leave us review at iTunes.
1:28.5	Check us out at Instagram at Pilot the Pilot, our website, pilot the Pilot the pilot hq.
1:33.0	or if you have any feedback good or bad let me know at pilot the pilot hq at
1:37.0	gee mow dot com abination I also want to go and throw it out there check out our
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Justin Siems, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Justin Siems and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.