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Most pilots don't understand what career opportunities are available in the world of aviation.

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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, it's Nick. It's a solo show. It's a great day. It's a fantastic day.

Today, my wife and I decided to take the kids hiking at this beautiful mountain that has a lake by it and we walked

and hiked and had fun and then walked back and found a little cove of the lake to let them go swim

and I met a woman from Kenya and if you know me you know Africa. I love Africans. I love all of the different

cultures. And so I said, Jombo, which is hello and Swahili when I met her. And she's in the middle of

the U.S. and didn't expect a six foot four white guy to say Jombo and a couple other things.

And it was a great opportunity to connect. And it was so

fun. And it got me thinking about an experience I just had a couple weeks ago at Obab.

The organization of black aerospace professionals had their convention in New Orleans.

I went down to New Orleans. I sweat it out down there. The team did

awesome. We brought just our A game and had a lot of fun. On the last day, we were staying at this hotel

and we went down for breakfast. It was a very small hotel. And we went downstairs for breakfast.

We'd meet at like seven and shoot the breeze and kind of catch up on the day, talk about the things that we were going to do and we hope to accomplish

the people that we would like to encounter and spend time with who had interviews, how it was

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