Ep159: So You Want to Jumpseat? A Guide for Pilots
Ready 4 Pushback
Nik Fialka
5.0 • 797 Ratings
🗓️ 18 July 2024
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Take your jumpseating to new heights! Get the inside scoop on everything from what to wear to how to keep your cool in the jumpseat. Nik's got your back with his engaging stories and golden rules to turn you into a jumpseat pro. So tune in and make every jumpseat ride a valuable learning experience.
WHAT YOU'LL LEARN FROM THIS EPISODE
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Understanding the concept of jump seats and their purpose
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Proper etiquette and rules for requesting to use a jump seat
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Necessary credentials and documents to have on hand
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The role and responsibilities of a pilot using a jump seat
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Significance of being attentive and professional during the flight
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Jump seating is a great opportunity, but there definitely is some etiquette, and you should be aware of that etiquette. |
| 0:10.0 | Most pilots don't understand what career opportunities are available in the world of aviation. |
| 0:16.0 | They're making career decisions based on advice from friends or posts on internet forums, |
| 0:22.4 | meaning they are taking huge risks with their livelihood without having all the details. |
| 0:27.6 | This podcast was created to help you understand the aviation industry so you can find your dream job. |
| 0:34.5 | Let's get ready for pushback. |
| 0:36.7 | Here's your host and my dad, Nick Fialca. |
| 0:40.7 | Hey, pilot, welcome to Ready for Pushback. It's Nick Fialca, and you have found another solo show. |
| 0:48.5 | I'm glad you're here today. We are talking about airline specific things today. And some of you may be familiar with this. Some of you may |
| 0:58.2 | not be familiar. We are talking about jump seating. And maybe you know what a jump seat is. Maybe you |
| 1:05.6 | don't. So let's talk about it and discuss what it is. So in an aircraft, like a large airliner, even a regional |
| 1:14.1 | aircraft, there are typically one or two, sometimes three extra seats in the flight deck |
| 1:22.6 | that are for pilots that are trying to get from one place to another. Oftentimes, a jump seat can be |
| 1:31.2 | there for a check airman to sit in, if there's a check ride going on, all sorts of different things. |
| 1:36.8 | But yeah, there are extra seats. The reason they're awesome is because today, load factors, |
| 1:44.0 | meaning the amount of butts in seats on an |
| 1:48.6 | airliner are just high. People, every plane seems to always be full. And one of the really |
| 1:56.0 | cool benefits that we get to have as airline pilots are as the fact that we are allowed to ride in that jump seat |
| 2:04.5 | from point A to point B. And if you work for a company and your company has a jump seat and it is |
| 2:12.9 | available for you to ride in, then you have the opportunity to hop into that jump seat. |
| 2:18.6 | Likewise, if you are at a company that has a jump seat agreement with another airline, |
| 2:28.2 | you can go onto other airlines jump seats. |
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