Friendship is real and its depth and you need to put your screens down and you need to engage in a meaningful conversation to create those memories that will last you a lifetime.

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 day to you. How's it going? Is today awesome? Do you hear my little girl,

Kate, giving me a shout out? I love listening to that little girl, and I love that you keep tuning

in week after week and keep reaching out.

This has been a really great week for me because I have had a ton of interaction with fans of the show

and I love that so much.

One of the things I really try to do is to be accessible and to be a person that is

not just, you know, like a face on the internet or a name on the internet or some kind of social

media thing. I see that and it is what it is. But in our community of aviation, I'm just drawn to the

fact that I want to know you and I want to go through

this life experience as aviation experience with you. And the reason for that, I think, is driven

pretty far back into my spiritual growth as a young man and my path down the road to

I was almost a Catholic priest.

And just the life experience, the being able to connect with people has been really, really

important for me.

And it got more and more and more like that and more and more

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