Doesn't matter how many type ratings you have.

You have to be able to hold a medical.

Make sure that whatever you do, you focus first on keeping yourself healthy and then everything else falls in line from there.

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, pilot, welcome back to Ready for Pushback. It's me,

Nick Fialca. We are here together and it's going to be a great day. I hope that you are getting to do whatever it is you love.

I hope that if it's something fun, you are doing it.

And if it has to do with flying, you know, I'm excited for you.

But you know what?

Sometimes we hit speed bumps on our road.

And I've talked about speed bumps before.

But today I wanted to talk about your road. And I've talked about speed bumps before, but today I wanted to talk about

your medical. And that is the thing that keeps you in the air as much as it is the FAA certificates

that you have. To be able to leverage those certificates, doesn't matter how many type ratings

you have, you have to be able to

hold a medical. And most of the professional flying requires you to hold a class one medical.

There's a class one, a class two, and a class three. I don't pretend to know the specifics about

them, but the class one is the more rigorous being the FAA monitors and manages this in Oklahoma City,

and they have a team that is responsible for making sure that pilots are fit to fly.

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