00:38:05 · Molly O'Shea, Israel Slodowitz
[00:38:05] S1: Really? I feel like none of them even have it on any of their planes. Like, I so I I interviewed Jake Paul. He just got a beautiful new plane, and I asked him if he had Starlink, and I think he said he doesn't yet, and it takes three months to get it installed, so you have to ground it and that kind of thing. [00:38:19] S0: Yeah. Yeah. We well, not to ground the plane. That's a little extreme, but we maybe there's something else going on But we I mean, we we have orders for Starlink kits all the way through, like, end of next year, all the way through end of twenty twenty seven. So, yeah, you have to put down put down deposit and then they they start they come about three three months apart. So we yeah. So we have, like, all throughout next year, Starlink kits being sent. It's about $3,300,000 cost to install on an aircraft like this. Very slightly on a bigger aircraft or small aircraft. But to me, if you're flying private if you're flying private and you don't have Starlink, why are you flying private? [00:38:54] S1: Exactly. It's a good place to leave it. Anything else we should talk about while we're in the cockpit? [00:38:59] S0: No. I thought [00:39:00] S1: Or the people pit or whatever you call it now? [00:39:01] S0: The cockpit? The people pit? The the flight the flight deck. [00:39:04] S1: The flight deck. Anything else? Do you have a favorite button? [00:39:08] S0: Are you gonna put that one in? [00:39:09] S1: Yeah. Absolutely. We're keeping that in. [00:39:12] S0: Oh, no. The favorite button? [00:39:14] S1: Yeah. What's the favorite button?
00:39:14 · Molly O'Shea, Israel Slodowitz
[00:39:14] S1: Yeah. What's the favorite button? [00:39:16] S0: Well, this is the autopilot disconnect button. Okay. This right button here, and this is when you actually start to fly pan fly it yourself. So it's always nice to every once in a while take over and and fly. I try to stay away from the buttons that have red on them in general. Not quite sure why. They just they say don't touch. [00:39:33] S1: They scare you? [00:39:34] S0: Yeah. Don't don't touch the red buttons. [00:39:35] S1: Okay. [00:39:36] S0: This is, like, our our power lever. So this is, when you wanna when you're ready for takeoff, you push that forward. That's like hitting the gas pedal on your car. [00:39:44] S1: And you can just touch that while we're Well, right now right now, the engines are not running. Okay. [00:39:48] S0: That's good to know. So but when the engines are running when the engines are running, that will this will produce all the all the power. So you you can watch on takeoff as the the pilots advance this. This is this is the lever of of where we put the landing gear up. So once once the airplane's in the air and we have a safe distance from the ground, the pilots put the landing gear up and then you these three gears is the left gear, the right gear, the nose gear will come up. My favorite button is probably this button, the autopilot button. [00:40:13] S1: I feel like I shouldn't have asked you this question because I'm being so nervous whenever you touch anything.
00:40:13 · Molly O'Shea, Israel Slodowitz
[00:40:13] S1: I feel like I shouldn't have asked you this question because I'm being so nervous whenever you touch anything. [00:40:19] S0: Yeah. So, yeah, so my so my my favorite button is the autopilot button. It's when once we get in the plane and once we're up once we're once we're off the ground, especially the autopilot button and and and autopilot and chill. [00:40:28] S1: So one of my friends got their pilot's license a couple years ago, and I I asked. I was like, when you got your pilot's license, was it like getting your driver's license and, like, feeling the freedom? And he was like, a thousand times more than that. [00:40:44] S0: Yeah. [00:40:44] S1: Did you like, is that how you feel? [00:40:46] S0: I got my pilot's license before I got my driver's license. [00:40:49] S1: Really? [00:40:49] S0: Yeah. I got my pilot's license on my seventeenth birthday Okay. Which is the legal age to get it. Actually, at this airport right here, Van Nuys Airport. And and I got my my permit maybe when I was 16, but I think I got my driver's license at 17. So I was flying airplanes. By myself before I was driving a car by myself. And it is one of the greatest. Feelings of agency that you can have, especially as a 17 year old to fly an aircraft on your own. And I think that that maybe is another thing that has led me towards continuous agency in my life and continuously wanting to build and do more things. [00:41:38] S1: More pilots. We need more pilots. [00:41:40] S0: We do need more pilots.
00:41:40 · Israel Slodowitz, Molly O'Shea
[00:41:40] S0: We do need more pilots. [00:41:41] S1: K. Cool. What do you think of the cockpit? I think this is really fun. It's very intimidating. What [00:41:46] S0: do think? [00:41:47] S1: I feel like I shouldn't be sitting here. I don't have a favorite button because I don't really know what any of them do. [00:41:56] S0: You can push this button in if you want. Why? Just to see what it does. [00:42:01] S1: I push it? [00:42:02] S0: Yeah. Just push it down. [00:42:03] S1: No. I don't want to. Too scary. Is that gonna make a plane No. I have to get out of here. What's the most common cause of downtime and not being able to use the aircraft? Because I know people who have bought recent aircrafts. I don't know the model or the year or anything like that, but then they're all of a sudden stuck servicing it or the plane's been down for, like, a year or more and that kind of thing. Like, so what are the most common causes and how do you avoid that?
00:42:36 · Israel Slodowitz, Molly O'Shea
[00:42:36] S0: I mean, an airplane like this, there's tens of thousands of individual parts on the plane. 80% of the parts, if they're broken, the plane's down. You can't fly. So there there is, like, a 20% of them that we get exceptions that we can fly certain amount of flights until it can get fixed. But almost a major vast majority of the parts on this plane, if they fail, if the if any of these components fail, plane's grounded. And sometimes, like we were talking earlier about the supply chain in in this industry because of all the demand of all the aircraft coming in, these manufacturers are trying to build as many airplanes they can as quickly as possible. And their priority is the newer airplanes that they can sell to to to brand new customers. Right? So their priority is not supporting the existing fleet. It's more on delivering as many new airplanes as quickly as possible. So you can sometimes find yourself down for several months because of, a windshield that breaks. We just replaced a a lav panel for the toilet in the back of the plane, $25,000. No. Yeah. Just for, like, a little lav panel. A set of brakes on this aircraft's over a $100,000. [00:43:48] S1: What is the deal with people talking about the windows popping out? [00:43:52] S0: What do you mean? [00:43:53] S1: That I've I've heard from a couple of people, like, were stories that the windows will pop out and people will get crushed lungs. I've never seen that. You've never heard that? No. I've heard it, and now they're making planes without windows.
00:43:53 · Molly O'Shea, Israel Slodowitz
[00:43:53] S1: That I've I've heard from a couple of people, like, were stories that the windows will pop out and people will get crushed lungs. I've never seen that. You've never heard that? No. I've heard it, and now they're making planes without windows. [00:44:06] S0: Well, I think the planes without windows is actually a very interesting idea, and that has more to do with, like, the the airframe shape. Right? They're, like, there there there's there's one company I think that's building a newer, like, design. This airplane is supposed to be more efficient. I don't know much about it, but it sounds pretty interesting, and they're like, hey. I don't know why we use the windows. They can just do screens on the side, but I don't think that has to do with windows being crushed in. [00:44:28] S1: That's, like, not like, the whole fun about [00:44:30] S0: Just looking outside or [00:44:31] S1: out the window. Like, right now, we're looking at, like, beautiful California. California. [00:44:36] S0: Place on Earth. [00:44:37] S1: There's farms down there. There's lots of mountains. You can't see it. Sorry. But it's Yeah. I don't know. [00:44:42] S0: I think I I would wanna have windows in my plane. Seems to it seems to me like a [00:44:47] S1: We'll have to put up a poll. [00:44:48] S0: Yeah. [00:44:48] S1: Yeah. How many people [00:44:49] S0: want to move in their plane? I I would be curious to to to see what their what what people people ask