Versa Alto is an idea to encourage you that everything you do in life should be moving upward and forward toward your personal goal.

Those setbacks, those are opportunities for you to be a better human and a better pilot and more well-rounded.

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 Nick Fialka and here I am recording again. Got all the kids wrangled

into bed and it's a late night and my oldest son Fassati just walked out. I told him, hey man,

I got to do some recording. I got people that are counting on me. I love you, buddy. And I will

catch you later.

And he went and mosey himself off to bed.

And I want to tell you a little bit about his name, and I promise that it has to do with something that you're interested in.

All right.

So his name is Versadi, F-R-A-S-A-T-I.

I'm Catholic, right? So he's named after this guy,

Pierre Giorgio Fri-S-Di, who is a guy who is going to become a saint, which is great.

And this is not a thing about my choice of being Catholic or anything like this. what it is about is about this guy, Pierre

Giorgio, Fassadhi. And why would I name my kid after this guy? Because he was awesome,

and he was like, he's just kind of a man's man. And there's this real famous photo of him. He

was modern day, died very young, but he was a big mountain climber. And there's this picture of him

on top of this mountain. In written, in kind of cursive, it says Verso Alto. And it's Italian. He's from

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