Michael Mainiero

Pilot to Pilot - Aviation Podcast

Justin Siems

Leisure, Hobbies, Business, Aviation, Careers

4.9 • 938 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2019

⏱️ 72 minutes

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Summary

What is going on avination?! Welcome back to the Pilot to Pilot podcast episode 54 featuring Michael Mainiero. Michael is absolutely killing this whole piloting thing, he is 22 years old with 3200 hours, current in over a dozen aircraft, and was just hired by a big 121 carrier.

Some of the things Michael and I talk about are..

How Michael got into aviation.
How Michael put a presentation together for his Parents on why he should get flight simulator.
How Michael had to talk his mom into letting him learn how to fly.
Michael talks about joining young eagles.
How Michael built his connections.
Michael explains what Young Eagles is.
How Michael was running his local Young Eagles website at 12 years old.
We talk about how you can get involved with Young Eagles.
How Michael is current in over a dozen airplanes at age 22.
How Michael owns a partnership in a 152.
How Michael was able to talk his parents into buying an airplane at age 14.
Michael talks about what his training was like.
How flying is very straight forward for him
How Michael hated school and hated studying while training.
How Michael struggled with the oral on his Instrument check ride.
How Michaels CFI's assumed Michael had everything memorized
I give a tip on a cheat sheet I would take into my check rides with me.
Michael talks about the connections he has made and how it has helped him in his career.
We talk about how you have to do everything you can to get your ratings done asap.
How Michaels teachers had a love/hate relationship with him.
How Michael balances getting his degree and flying.
Michael talks about how aviation is double sided with the younger generation of pilots.
We talk about influencers on YouTube who are doing it wrong.
How you have to be careful about what you post on the internet, especially aviation videos.
Michael talks about how he started flying with the Patriot jet team.
Why Michael isn’t at a regional airline waiting for the flow to the majors.
How Michael chose check airman in the King Air and a Citation X airport PIC type over the regionals.

Thank you for being a Patron of Pilot to Pilot. I hope you enjoy these early access uploads. Let me know what you think of the podcast below.

Happy Flying,

Justin

Transcript

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0:00.0	Episode 54 of the Pilot the Pilot Podcast takes off now.
0:04.0	Hey, so I am Michael My Nero.
0:11.0	My Nero, my Instagram as many of you know is M. A. Michael My narrow my narrow my name is my narrow and I am a corporate pilot charter
0:19.7	and part 91 out of San Francisco Bay Area, Hayward Airport.
0:24.0	What is going on Navy Nation and welcome back to the pilot to pilot
0:27.1	podcast. My name is Justin and I am your host. Today I am talking with
0:30.9	Michael My Narrow. Now if you haven't been on my Instagram or my Twitter,
0:34.6	you haven't seen the promos that have been doing
0:36.8	and you don't know that Michael is 22 years old,
0:39.6	has 3,200 hours.
0:42.1	Just got hired by a 121 carrier, not a regional, a pretty big 121 carrier, and like I said,
0:47.2	he's only 22 years old.
0:49.8	Now before I talked with Michael, I thought that I was on top of my game and I thought that I was on top my game and I thought that I was
0:53.5	doing well for my age I'm 29 I'm on a pretty good-sized company a pretty big
0:57.6	company with a good career track and a great company work for but Michael just
1:01.4	blows me out of the water this kid has done so much to position himself to where he is today and it is hard work, it is determination.
1:09.0	I mean later in this episode we find out ways that he was able to skip school.
1:12.0	Got his parents and his was able to skip school, got his parents and his teachers
1:13.8	approval to skip school so he can go fly and get his hours.
1:17.3	He used to go to young eagles and he would go to multiple young eagles so he could
1:20.6	get flights every single month,
1:22.5	multiple flights a month,
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