00:32:20 · Israel Slodowitz, Molly O'Shea
[00:32:20] S0: I don't know. Maybe it's, like, a little bit more politically correct. [00:32:24] S1: I don't understand why. We Pockets not politically correct?
00:32:24 · Molly O'Shea, Israel Slodowitz
[00:32:24] S1: I don't understand why. We Pockets not politically correct? [00:32:29] S0: I I don't know. It's they also changed it used to be called airman. That's what they a pilot was considered an airman. Now it's Sexist. Maybe air person. I don't I don't know. Yeah. So, yeah, pilots have to go every every six months into to simulator training. It's about a week long, and you sit in with something that looks just like this. So everything's about the same. It's full motion, so you feel turns and everything, and you you you go over all sorts of emergencies and different sort of, stuff. But I think something interesting that I found going from being a pilot to being a founder that's really helped me as a pilot. You know, when you're when you're flying the plane maybe over Las Vegas and you're, you know, an hour out from LA, You're already starting to think ahead about the landing in LA. You're thinking about what the weather is like there, what runway you're going be using, what the the sort of arrival is going to look like. So even though you're still over Las Vegas, you're kind of really thinking thinking an hour ahead of time. And I think that running a business is very similar. Right? Like, you're you're even though there's stuff you're dealing with today, you're you're you're dealing with things that are happening on the day to day, you're also thinking ahead and making sure that you're planning, for for the arrival. So I think that's that's something that, you know, just the training of
00:32:29 · Israel Slodowitz, Molly O'Shea
[00:32:29] S0: I I don't know. It's they also changed it used to be called airman. That's what they a pilot was considered an airman. Now it's Sexist. Maybe air person. I don't I don't know. Yeah. So, yeah, pilots have to go every every six months into to simulator training. It's about a week long, and you sit in with something that looks just like this. So everything's about the same. It's full motion, so you feel turns and everything, and you you you go over all sorts of emergencies and different sort of, stuff. But I think something interesting that I found going from being a pilot to being a founder that's really helped me as a pilot. You know, when you're when you're flying the plane maybe over Las Vegas and you're, you know, an hour out from LA, You're already starting to think ahead about the landing in LA. You're thinking about what the weather is like there, what runway you're going be using, what the the sort of arrival is going to look like. So even though you're still over Las Vegas, you're kind of really thinking thinking an hour ahead of time. And I think that running a business is very similar. Right? Like, you're you're even though there's stuff you're dealing with today, you're you're you're dealing with things that are happening on the day to day, you're also thinking ahead and making sure that you're planning, for for the arrival. So I think that's that's something that, you know, just the training of [00:33:45] S1: being a pilot help helps in some ways with being a founder. What's been your favorite part of being a pilot?
00:33:45 · Molly O'Shea, Israel Slodowitz
[00:33:45] S1: being a pilot help helps in some ways with being a founder. What's been your favorite part of being a pilot? [00:33:52] S0: Getting to meet all very incredible people. Really? Yeah. Absolutely. [00:33:55] S1: How many people have you flown? [00:33:57] S0: I've flown I've flown quite a bit of people. I think it's like, you know, there's the celebrities and and everybody wants to hear about the people we fly, but I think that really getting to know on intimate level people that like, building, like, these good relationships with with the businessmen, like, the the venture capitalists, people that really see private aviation as, a utility and a tool for them, getting to spend time with them, getting to talk to them, talk to them about my business. Like, these are just, an incredible experience that someone like me who, you know, dropped out of high school, like, would never otherwise get get to get to interact with. So I I just think, like, meeting some really incredible people, I would say. [00:34:38] S1: What do you think the biggest misconception is about private aviation and the glamor about it? That's a great question, [00:34:46] S0: and I have a great answer for you. [00:34:48] S1: Okay.
00:34:48 · Molly O'Shea, Israel Slodowitz
[00:34:48] S1: Okay. [00:34:50] S0: People think it's a luxury. People think of it, like, sort of they compare it to, a yacht. Right? But, like, you know, you cannot you you go on a yacht for you could spend a week on a yacht. You don't spend a week on a private jet. Yeah. Right? They think that private a private jet is a luxury. And in reality, this is a tool to allow people more time to do more. Today, we're gonna go to San Francisco. We got some meetings. We're gonna come back tomorrow. Right? Like, we wouldn't be able to to leave on our schedule, come back on our schedule, and and get so much done without private aviation. I think that there's a a common misconception that it's a it's a luxury, and it really isn't. And and I think that a lot of times private aviation companies tend to mask what they're doing but with luxury because of how opaque the pricing is, because of how expensive it is, and it's very expensive to fly private. There is no cheap way to fly private. People like to mask that with this idea of luxury when it really isn't. It's just a tool. [00:35:48] S1: How big of a difference did it make on the business or at least the experience when you guys got Starlink?
00:35:48 · Molly O'Shea, Israel Slodowitz
[00:35:48] S1: How big of a difference did it make on the business or at least the experience when you guys got Starlink? [00:35:54] S0: A huge difference. We we've been operating Starlink from basically the the moment that they came out. We started off with the Starlink minis, and then eventually, when when they got the full certification, we installed the full certification right away. But it is a the only the only way to describe it a game changer. Like, people today won't fly if you don't have Starlink. They won't get on the plane. To be able to continue what you're doing, like, if you have the Zoom calls, just be able to have that continuity. You know, these other the other the other systems out there, like, they're they have good connectivity when you're in The US, but they kept they they have lags. They they work and they stop working. Work and stop working. Starlink is just, like, an absolute game changer, and all of our aircraft have Starlink. And I think there's a a dish right there. [00:36:36] S1: Oh my god. Yeah. Yeah. There's literally it's just a dish. [00:36:39] S0: No. No. We have an actual Starlink on top of the [00:36:41] S1: Oh, this is just an extra one? [00:36:43] S0: A backup. Yeah. [00:36:43] S1: This is a bag you've a backup you've got backup Starlink. [00:36:46] S0: We fly lots of fintech companies, founders of fintech companies that are [00:36:52] S1: Need to be on the market. They [00:36:55] S0: don't take their head out of their computer from the moment they get on the plane to the moment they get off. So having the best of the best