You need to lean ahead before you get there.

It's the reason I'm at this airline.

I keep getting these messages from hiring people.

Most pilots don't understand what career opportunities are available in the world of aviation.

They're making career decisions based on advice from friends or posts on internet forums, meaning they are taking huge risks with their livelihood without having all the details.

This podcast was created to help you understand the aviation industry so you can find your dream job.

Let's get ready for pushback.

Here's your host and my dad, Nick Fialca.

Hey, pilots, welcome back to Ready for Pushback. It's Nick Fialca. It's another solo show. I am glad

you're here today. I hope you've got some time to go in the air. I hope maybe you're on a commute to work or you are

driving to the airport to go bang out some hours in your Cessna or your diamond or whatever you've got.

I am interested in talking about a thing that happens in the interview process. And that's logbooks.

I've had a couple shows about logbooks, but I recently got a text message from a director of hiring

at a major airline. And he said that I should bring back up to you, the listener, that logbooks are vitally important.

And if you want a job at a major airline, your logbook has to be tight. And your logbook has to be

in order. And your logbook has to be in hand and i want to specifically drill down on the

in hand part there have been many people that have come across without the required logbook in hand

and maybe you are a person that is military and something happened, things got damaged or whatever,

you have to come up with a solution that shows those times or they cannot, they have to

have your logbook a log of your hours before they can give you a job. Because there's a requirement from the FAA

that you show these hours. A logbook is a dumb way. It's all you. It's all just like your

honesty in a book of everything written down. It seems obscure and weird and antiquated and it is, but that's what it is.

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