If you are handed a calculator, figure it out.

Make sure you are correct because you already spent the time, you already did your due diligence,

you know your logbook because your logbook is your thesis and you be able to defend what is yours.

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, what's up?

It's Nick Fialca, and you found it.

Thursday means a solo episode.

And it is time for me to talk about something that I think is

relevant and important. So this is it. Today's topic is logbooks. Oh, logbooks. Logbooks. Logbooks. Logbooks.

For you old guys and girls out there, a logbook is a huge

pain in the butt flipping through those big stacks of paper and getting out your abacus and making

sure everything is measured correctly and accounted for. And then you've got the other side of the coin where

people have digital logbooks and they're quick and easy and you just have to remember to

fill them out but they're always adding up correctly because it's just a computer zero's and

ones zeros and ones that's it and ones. That's it.

But why are we talking about logbooks? Because it is literally the third part of your interview.

You have an HR portion. You probably have some kind of technical portion.

Maybe you do, maybe you don't, but you definitely have a logbook portion.

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