hey guys welcome back to another video we are back at the airport it is burning up outside
it's 108 degrees but again in arizona this is a nice day in the summer nice beautiful skies
you just can't beat it so a good thing about today is we're flying with czech airman dave
obviously he was the czech airman that we flew to cancun several times with really good guy lots of
insights been here forever so we're gonna get a lot of questions and answers from him today
well actually we'll get a bunch of answers i'm gonna send some stuff out on instagram seeing
what you guys what's on your mind what questions you have and we'll get them answered on this video
and uh i don't know do something different make it look fun today is a three day heading over to
our overnights are uh sacramento and then austin uh first lake today uh we're going over to denver
we call it denver turn so i'm gonna head to denver come back to phoenix and then we fly one more to
austin so that's the day today we are running a little bit behind because the airline schedules
have been getting really packed and uh obviously most of you all are going out and flying so that's
a great sign uh it is stressing us a little bit because well you know during the pandemic we cut
way back and now we're trying to scale way up so it's been a challenge we're working through it
just know that uh guys and gals out there are working hard to get you to where you're wanting
to go uh as safely as possible so all right let's head to the gate and catch up with dave
never going back up going up going up going up going all right guys just like before
pleased to introduce you to czech airman dave hey so our first lady got cancelled and here we sit it
is nice it's comfortable in here obviously we've got a nice computer dave is working on this deal
but as you can see the little red deal canceled misconnect yeah hey life of an airline pub you
guys want to do this this is this is what you guys got to get ready for ready for the audible
so we're gonna sit in here we're gonna gotta figure it out wait until uh scheduling calls us
then they'll let us know what we're doing or not or not at league one
they own us for three days yes so three days this is what we're gonna be doing it's uh it's a little
busy out there but uh we'll let you know what we're doing when we find out what we're doing
a few moments later okay all right well we just got the word we get to go home for a couple hours
so they called us back and let us know we're gonna stay on our scheduled trip except take off the
first two legs so we basically have another five hours or so we have to be back at nine so about
four hours ish maybe three but yeah we're gonna go home because we live pretty close and then
we're gonna rally back uh here in a little bit so day it's a good deal so we'll take it we live
here so it's nice they did offer us a hotel if we were going to sit here because by contract if
we have more than four hours they have to get us a day room they call it but we turned it down so
we can go home and just uh hang out that's it so that's what we're gonna do we're gonna get running
so we can maximum time at home before we get our head back all right see you guys in a little bit
all right here we are bed and watered at home we're back it was so nice you know sometimes
you get the hookup where scheduling is like yeah come on back at nine o'clock we got the hook up so
thank you very much scheduling right yep the line for big lebowski sometimes you eat the
bar and sometimes the bar eats i've no idea what it means but it's appropriate it is sometimes you
eat the bar and sometimes the bar will heat you so we're just waiting for our airplane right now uh
it is dark outside it's hot too and it is hot yeah so which is kind of cool this is what the guys do
guys and gals out there that drive our jetway use this thing i don't want to touch it too much
don't touch it but yeah they're able to manipulate the gateway or the jet way to get to the airplane
and you can see the different parking spots on there depending on we have a 800 or 700 just
the length of the airplane so i'll get you a better view yeah there you go oh so this is it
there's a parking spot you got the tug right there with the bar they'll hook that up once we come in
some bags are just now arriving so just getting ready to uh just getting ready for the next
airplane to come in we got one over to sacramento then we're completely done for the night
it is going to be a short overnight we are running a little bit behind but
we'll do what we can to make up a little bit of time but uh it is going to be a short overnight so
not a whole lot going on tonight but we have high hopes for tomorrow night is that right yes
tomorrow will be better tomorrow would be better we'll be in austin tomorrow so all right here we
go we'll show you what uh what's going on here in a little bit oh that's probably our airplane
landing and bam here we are in the cockpit dave's already going through some of the uh instagram
messages that you guys are participating in thanks a lot that's pretty awesome we've gotten a lot of
really good questions so far and we'll we'll go through them over this course of three days uh
as we film and as we have time right now we're kind of a little crunch for time but uh we're
trying to run a little bit late uh on that note i will show you guys we just got our clearance
uh zipper two to rasta that has filed i maintain 8 000 feet we got that set up there
36 in three minutes 19 2 and zero seven six five zero seven six and a five all right that's how
it looks we got the wilco on that here's how it looks on our flight pan here's how it looks on our
jet fd pro a little bit of weather off to the east we don't care because we're going to the west
where it is best flying out there no weather everything looks pretty good i'll pull it up
on the wsi app here in a second just to double check the uh the turbulent spots
but uh should be pretty good an hour 31 minutes our flight time today altitude of 36 000 feet
and again should be a nice ride go ahead and check out the wsi app i had it set up for
our flight to denver so i had to reset it all right it's loading the route
doing the zepper2 rasta dovey baby there we go this guy right here and it looks gorgeous typical
west coast flying that's why all of us here in phoenix like hanging out on the west coast because
it's really not a whole lot going on there radar summaries everything so yeah there's no turbulence
nothing at all it looks great um so we're just gonna get this airplane ready indeed
one leg today one leg today and then we're done nice late show doesn't happen very often like i
said uh scheduling was very kind to us to let us uh head home for a little bit we had about
four hours at home got to eat dinner with the family you know kind of relax a little bit then
we get back in our suit and we're back up at the airport but just one to sacramento and then
that's the end of the day so we're gonna get to it we'll see you in sacramento all right guys uh we
have a little bit of time they're still boarding back there we just ran through our checklist and
we're good to go so we got a little bit of time thank you guys for uh all the questions
really good ones uh we're gonna answer uh one if we got time we'll answer another one too
so the first one was uh from uh julian majoros sorry if i pronounce your name incorrectly
but uh can you become a commercial pilot with type 1 diabetes and actually dave has
a really good experience with this so i'll let him answer that one well my experience comes from my
daughter's a type 1 diabetic she was diagnosed when she was 14. she has no interest in flying
but that kind of stifled her chance of maybe wanting to anyways the answer is absolutely yes
ernie and i both have a friend that was flying here he was a captain here
very late in life for him he got diagnosed with type 1 diabetes worked in our training
department for several years and the fa finally came up with a program to allow people to allow
people with type 1 diabetes to become airline pilots again he was the first one back i believe
a lot of it came down to a continuous glucose monitor so he was able to present really good
numbers to show that he had really good control over it and uh that was basically the key to a
lot of record keeping and whatnot he still has to i guess from what i understand he has to stay on
that uh meter and really uh throughout the whole day monitor and whatever else uh i can certainly
ask him and find any more particulars as far as what happens if he starts going high or low but
it was a big deal for him to come back and uh we were all very happy to see bob come back bob
actually flew with me in the air national guard actually uh kind of left right before i got there
but i know him well uh great guy and happy to see him flying again so uh hope to answer your
question so the answer is yes um we've got uh maybe time for one more um and we'll split it up
alright so take an easy one yeah one all right riley landscape uh
ern how much influence does a college degree have on hiring chances at a major airline does prior
experience trump the degree hope to hear from you soon uh on the radios in phoenix
and one of these days so must be a phoenix guy uh yeah actually the uh depending on the airline
right you know our airline values the four-year degree or values a college degree uh pretty high
um but things change right so uh there were times where four-year degree at certain airlines
uh without it you wouldn't even get called for an interview we'll at least take a look at you
will evaluate you but we're based mainly on the whole person concept so yes prior experience does
mean a whole lot um education means a whole lot too i'll give one anecdotal uh story just to you
guys i had a really good friend in california was a flight engineer on the c5 uh got all his
ratings became um the chief pilot ceo czech airman had all the boxes checked didn't have a degree
had a very difficult time getting a uh a interview but ended up you know he knew what he needed to do
so he got his two-year degree in route to getting a four-year degree and when he got his two-year
degree he got an interview so not saying that that would happen to you guys uh but that is just one
story out there there are many out there but um it is an important piece of your overall package
uh is what i would tell you so i would value that pretty high obviously get that experience
but uh a college degree is pretty important uh i would say what do you think one more yeah we're
still boarding all right we're still boarding uh one of them this one's uh directed today
all right uh this one's from christian valentine what is the training process like to become a
czech airman and what are the extra duties slash responsibilities like thanks all right
let dave answer that one training what kind of training did we get it was a two-week class that
they gave us a lot of it was on documenting paperwork and how to operate the simulator
the training program that we have here it's a cq program so we wind up having to uh basically
the company comes up with a training plan for all the pilots based on data that collected
from issues we've had or something that the fa wants to see so in essence everybody gets a
nearly the same check ride the scenarios may change but it's the same material so we learn
how to do that we learn how to collect data that's a huge part of it there's a lot of whys we watch
somebody do something we ask them why they did it and then we'll ask them why they said what they
did and then a third or a fourth why to actually come up with the root cause to a lot of the issues
we record those the company collects all the data de-identified and that's what they use to write
our training programs for the next year the year after the year after a lot of it what they're
looking for is just known people people that they know that otherwise they're looking out for the
best interest of the company i mean every check ride i give i want to make sure that that person
is somebody that i want to put my family on the airplane or you on the airplane and that's
that's what all the czech airmen are looking for they're all you know honest good rides you try to
give everybody the fairest shake and if there's a problem a lot of times you can just work through
it other times they may need to come back for retraining but the company wants to see everybody
succeed so i mean that's the basic gist of how to become a check airman and kind of what we do
all right thanks dave for that uh yeah and then on the receiving end of the check rides i think
this company puts in a lot of time effort and money into training us uh to the best
of our abilities so we've got really good support system here with the czech airmen our instructors
the simulator techs i mean you go through it again it's a team sport right this whole aviation thing
so uh great question i hope they had answered it and we are about done boarding so we're gonna get
ready to go uh it is uh 15 past 10 o'clock we're late we're gonna get in pretty late
but uh it is what it is we do what we can alright guys uh we will see you in sacramento
hey guys we are finally here jet bridge is pulling up as we speak
what a day there's only one leg i don't know why we're so tired
it's it's a long day it's late so uh we're gonna clean up the cockpit get to the uh
where are we going hotel hotel well we're gonna go downstairs grab our uh our ride to the hotel but
anyways uh that's day number one thanks for your questions we'll uh
get some more of them answered tomorrow but for now we're we're done good night see you guys
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