Episode Details

What is going on Avination, welcome back to the Pilot to Pilot podcast episode 53 featuring David Campbell. David is 49 Private pilot who walked away from a high paying job to start his career in aviation. Some of the things David and I talk about in this episode are.

• Why David left a $100,000 a year job to start training and learn to become a pilot.

• How David originally went to college to become a pilot.

• Why David didn’t finish his pilot training at Western Michigan.

• How struggles in college and not seeing how he could pay for flying cause David to stray from his dream in college.

• How flying has always been expensive and always will be expensive.

• We talk about if David regrets any of the decisions he made in the past.

• How he had a good friend who finished his training at Western Michigan and quit flying farther down the line.

• How aviation is something that will rule your life.

• How an annual goal sheet helped David get back into aviation.

• David quit his job without a plan of action for whats next.

• How he used AOPA to find a local flight school.

• How seeing someone older than him complete his training helped David realize that it is a real possibility.

• David and I talk about when is it too late to make the switch.

• What to do when debating on switching careers.

• Is it too late for you to change?

• How it is important to make a plan when you switch careers.

• Its not going to be an easy switch so make sure your family is okay with it.

• The importance of using your GI bill to pay for your flight training.

• How easy it is to make excuses to not go fly.

• The first flight David went on after his checkered was to propose to his GF.

• What it is like to get your PPL while you are working.

• We talk about some things that can keep you from getting your PPL.

• David talks about a 10 hour flight in a LSA down to the Bahamas.

• We talk about how Foreflight has changed the game.

• We talk challenges of owning a plane.

• Differences between the corporate route and commercial route.

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Happy Flying,

Justin