The immediate positive benefit of your brain, including your mood and your focus, happens when physical activity is in your life.

And it has long-lasting benefits for your brain.

And the brain is the most complex thing known to humankind.

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, good morning, good afternoon, good evening. Hello, I'm stoked you're here. Welcome to a solo episode

and you found ready for pushback. I'm Nick Fialca and we're going to dive in today on a topic

I think is pretty darn crucial. And as I'm sitting here, I'm enjoying a nice cup of hot Cafe Bustello coffee. I used to fly

in and out of Miami for many years. And man, let me tell you, I fell in love with drinking

Cafe Bustello. And I still drink it today. Drink it black, nice and strong. Love it. So here's our topic for today, right?

So I've been doing a lot of reflecting about the struggle of being a professional pilot, about

the fact that we're pulled in lots of different directions in flight school, right, when you're

in flight training, you're constantly having to study, you're being tested. It's so difficult.

All these regulations you have to learn, whether you're in a civilian sector or in the military

sector, you have to learn so much stuff and it's so hard and it's so stressful.

When you're a certified flight instructor, right, you have to stay ahead of the student.

You have to know ahead of time what you are going to be training that day.

And you have to be a pro at it. You have to be a pro at it.

You have to be the best at it.

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