hey guys welcome we are back one of my last few remaining uh fo trips um fun with one of
my good buddies he believe it or not champion racer he's like my hero because he's uh he was
racing formula ford right that's right yeah it was a champion with dakota won that so you know me i'm
a big formula one fan so getting ready to go to uh indianapolis indianapolis next week so uh moving
into formula atlantic formula atlantic hey guys how you doing gary nice to meet you what's up man
so anyways uh awesome get get the fly with my brother and uh we're gonna go down to puerto
vallarta here's uh kind of the route right now it's heading straight down we looked at the
weather because uh we have an alternate believe it or not so we just kind of want to check out
the weather down there seven miles overcast two thousand feet so uh we have an alternate of mmzo
and uh it's not very far away so we'll uh we'll take a look at that we got everything going in
in the box i'm gonna go outside and do the walk around really quick turn on all the lights make
sure everything is all set up we're going to 39 000 feet that set there and yeah that's it so
we uh we'll go do the walk around let's go um last few walk arounds i get to do as a guest right like
captains don't do that right no we don't we don't want to get our shoes dirty so yeah i
have to learn where the captain area is up there you know when they go walk off and
there are gently slippers and the captain
key to go up to the captain lounge yeah i can't wait for all that all right guys
you know phoenix in the summer yeah it's hot but man loose guys all the time so if
you're going to come out for training might i say jessie or charlie aviation in scottsdale
but by the way arizona is a great place to do your training if you're going to do it
because the weather is nice all the time well i wouldn't say i wouldn't say nice it's sunny
and in the summer you'll get plenty of warmth well yeah one of the last few times i'll get
out here uh remember we talked about this the danger zone this is the danger zone
so if you're coming out as an fo for us to remember this you'll do it once or twice
destroy a couple of brand new shirts that aren't cheap and then you'll you'll be very
very cautious when you come in here terminal opens in two weeks that's gonna be nice um denver just
opened i hear it's absolutely gorgeous so hey look at brasilia one of the many jobs i think
that's a marathon but one of the many jobs that you guys can uh do to build your time as your uh
your building time to come to uh to whatever airline or maybe corporate that's good
right well puerto vallarta i uh i kept this trip honestly because it was probably gonna be
one of the last times i get to do it uh for a while unless someone is very generous
and gives me gives me a puerto vallarta trip or a cancun trip or something like that
so the one thing about us you know like we've talked about in the past is we have a lot of
opportunities to trade our trips away to uh improve our our line is what it's called in
line improvement trip trade employee line improvement trip trade so there's many
avenues to do that uh i'm just not very hopeful i'm setting my expectations pretty low just
because everything else would be great if uh if i get even anything so hey set expectations right
that what maverick said on that uh top gun just managing expectations i am managing expectations
and as you guys kind of come up the ranks you guys are gonna have to do the same thing
you know you're not gonna get that primo job right off the bat you got to kind of pay your dues even
though dudes paying is going pretty quick nowadays but you still got to just have that attitude where
nothing is beneath you you are willing to do whatever it takes to get to where you want
to be so um you know sometimes that means taking a job that may be less than ideal
just to get the experience um i would say just go there work hard uh get everything you can
as far as uh learning and opportunities and experience then uh we'll be off to the races
because nothing in life comes easy right you always gotta earn it all right uh well today's
flight time's gonna be two hours and eight minutes we're gonna be at 39 000 feet uh we're gonna be
doing just like we've always done in the past you guys probably know this by now by the time we get
to storm we try to cut it off and go direct to via that uh intersection right down there so
um let's see if i put this in there sid just tucking off seven storm oops had to root okay so
gotta see it right here we go the storm but probably cut off a little bit just to get
down there uh to the uh if you're looking at the uh schedule time of the estimated time they're
right within a minute so every shortcut that we can get well uh number one we'll make sure
that we arrive on time but possibly a little bit early because we know you guys going to port of
ir that want to get there early because you want to start your vacation early and we are happy to
help you out in that situation so uh that's that's the deal here got that all set go right here
load up the take off conditions all right guys well uh i'm going to get everything else going
we're going to brief it up and then uh we're going to head on out so oh hey atc so what's here
all right uh we cleared puerto vallarta via storm one tucson dennis filed climb to 8000 feet
that's already set there looks like 39 in three minutes 26 8 and our squawk of one five two five
so all right guys we're gonna brief it up uh head on out make sure we get an on-time departure
to get you guys over to puerto vallarta so you can enjoy yourselves maybe even early
puerto vallarta it is uh kind of cloudy out actually
not like the usual that we typically get breaks in symbol or tracks in symbol
but uh yeah it's good good flight on the way down nice and smooth
so here's what we did as you guys have seen many times before
basically via and then all the way down to this ulbric intersection we did the uh obrich one
arrival out there at obrecht carried all that way down to mamba and we picked up the arnav
on the way in there and it took off on charlie texted up and we are right there grab that
clearance here over the speaker because they don't have cp dlc here and uh we'll show you guys that
all right for now uh yeah there's uh marlin tacos here but i forgot to order them
those guys i was getting ready to grab the clearance
this guy stole my thunder it's all good get him off to houston
all right they're going to houston we're going to go to phoenix so let's grab our clearance uh you
know i always got my stuff down right here ready to go and john is always ready for the assist
clear in southwest 1299 like to pick up clearance phoenix ready copy
can you say uh squawk one more time please
okay i understand that southwest one two nine nine work third to phoenix be the boppy one bravo
upper tango four lima mike mike upper juliet three hotel mike oscar j92 to tucson as well
two two zero uh until further advise we'll expect a final of four zero zero
three two five two on the squawk and one one nine decimal zero
all right well uh i couldn't hear him speaker probably on the squad did you hear the spot
yeah three two five two three two five two um no the first time yeah you did the same
yeah it was it was a little garbage he ended with one more knife
but anyways uh yeah we got it it's basically flight plan root on the way back you know i do
the the check marks that kind of help bob d1 bravo and then uh basically as filed um once we get j92
via j92 to tucson so we just said j92 to tucson and as well so that is what we're gonna do
um we're gonna put everything in the box make sure it all matches we'll do our uh briefing
and then uh we're gonna ask john a couple questions on uh kind of what it's like to
be an airline pilot he's pretty senior so he's got a good schedule although he does commute to vegas
or no los angeles so i've been picking his brain about commuting because it's been a long time so
all right we'll be with you in a second after we're done doing our work because we got to
work first guys we're back we just briefed up everything we're about ready to go we have a
couple minutes so you know how i always like to talk and get you guys some some information from
guys have been there done that been there a while um on this episode we'll just talk about um we'll
talk about what we do in our free time so you know being an airline pilot's great we love flying the
airplane i mean you get to fly 737s depending on where you're at you know all different kinds
of airplanes but flying is awesome but what i really want to really impress upon you guys is the
lifestyle of an airline pilot now your lifestyle will vary obviously if you're at the regionals
or you're at a major and different majors i mean they're different so one thing here
at southwest we have awesome scheduling um we're able to move stuff around and
and get a lot of time off so uh john's been here a while how many days off do you get per month
many many days as many as i can get yeah so what do you do on your days off well i've been here 21
years that affords me the ability to have a lot of time off my hobby on the side is racing cars
so i started racing cars about 15 years ago the time off gives me the ability to travel
around the country and race in various different venues i race formula race cars different classes
and i've been doing that for about 15 years so this is a pretty good job
my hero races cars on his off time and he flies airplanes as captain so that's
that's pretty cool what would you say like you know folks that are coming up right now
obviously they're not going to have the the time off that they do but there is a goal at the end
of it and once you get to your final destination it tends to get bigger but talk about the kind
of you know the challenges and the struggles that you went through getting to southwest you have to
keep in mind that as you move your way up through the aviation industry that you will have time off
as much time as you really want to it's just you have to keep that in mind it's a long-term goal
uh you do have to put some work in in your early years you will fly especially if you
fly for the regionals you will fly a pretty busy schedule for a short time
once you get to the majors though your schedule opens up and you have a lot of flexibility
my my best advice is don't ever give up just keep that long-term goal in your view
and keep moving along cool there you go guys it's been there done that so yeah it's going
to be a struggle you know and and it's cyclical right so the airline industry is gonna you're
gonna have your ups and downs and it's gonna suck sometimes it's gonna be super awesome sometimes so
just know that the sucky times is kind of building your character for the show
and it's short-lived yeah so um yeah anyways just a little tidbit to you guys there is you
know good stuff at the at the end of all your struggles and you're you're
you're waking up early you're doing stand-ups i don't even know what that means but i heard
it's really bad at the at the regionals but uh yeah you know whatever your journey is to get
here it's gonna be uh it's gonna be filled with challenges but just know that once you get here
it's it may even have your ups and downs here as you first start off it's yeah but it is gonna get
better you're gonna have your great days you're gonna have your not so great day so it's just
all how you look at it but anyways there you go a little bit of knowledge keep pushing yeah humble
hungry right keep watching all right guys we are out of here and uh it is a little bit cloudy so
just pulled into bravo 23. just shut it down we're still waiting on them to pull up the
gate but two hours of four minutes so we beat it by a couple minutes we're here at gate 23.
looking good uh pretty uneventful we actually got a shortcut on the star we came over hot
we got us direct birdie and then we actually got
uh runway two six so as you know landing here in phoenix for the international stuff
we landed on two five right or left we had to make our way over there but we landed two six
they were nice here in phoenix uh spacing was good so we got in gate 23 like usual so we're in there
all right guys this is it hey everybody uh june 19th john is going to be racing there at indy uh
indianapolis raceway so go show them some love if you guys are out there watching the indianapolis
500 and uh yeah best of luck to him thanks for all the stuff the last time i get to play with this
guy but i'm sure i'll see him around maybe i don't know maybe i'll take up racing and relive some
stuff go ahead take care folks all right thanks guys hey thanks for watching uh do another turn
tomorrow another turn after that and then that'll be it as an fo so we'll see you next uh next week
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