01:10:55 · Molly O'Shea, Israel Slodowitz, Raz Matus
[01:10:55] S1: With Starlink too. [01:10:56] S0: With Starlink too. [01:10:57] S1: Okay. So as we close out, thank you so much for everything and the flight up to San Francisco. If people wanna reach you, how should they [01:11:04] S0: get in touch? You can come to our website, flightcraft.com. You can reach out that way. [01:11:08] S1: Please don't take my LA to SF flights. I would like them. [01:11:12] S0: Yeah. Yeah. I'll see you on the way back. Okay. [01:11:16] S1: Alright. So we're now here in San Francisco. We flew all the way from LA, and I have Izzy with me and captain Roz. Okay. So captain Roz was kind enough to fly us. Captain, how did you get your pilot's license? [01:11:30] S3: I started flying in the air force, Started in the flight academy, got most of my training there, and then I went to a different role in the Air Force, but I always knew I wanna be a pilot. So finishing the military service, I went straight to flight school, got my civilian licenses, started as a private pilot. That's where everybody starts. It was just for fun back then. And then eventually, I decided to make this a career. So I then went back to flight school, professional training, and I made it to to here. Anybody's dream job, really. And, it's the best office view I can ask for, and that's really the reason why I like doing it. Every time I'm in the air, it's like meditation for me. [01:12:24] S1: What's the longest flight you have flown? Longest flights?
01:12:24 · Molly O'Shea, Raz Matus, Israel Slodowitz
[01:12:24] S1: What's the longest flight you have flown? Longest flights? [01:12:30] S3: We go coast to coast quite often. The longest that I have flown was probably Hawaii to the East Coast, so was about nine hours of flight. Challenging. [01:12:42] S1: Do you get cramps in your legs? [01:12:44] S3: You get up. So these size of airplanes, you always have at least two pilots in the cockpit. So every once in a while, can get up, stretch your feet, go to the restroom if you need a break, maybe nibble on something just to get your blood flowing. It's actually very important to do so on the long legs because the cockpit can get a little cramped. Yes. But we try to also interact with our passengers, which is a whole different aspect of of being a corporate pilot, which is very nice. [01:13:16] S1: So I asked Izzy what his health hack is when flying so much. How do you avoid jet lag, and how do you not get dehydrated? What's yours? [01:13:25] S3: Drink a lot of water during and before flights, and lotion. A lot of lotion. The air can get pretty dry up there. Jet lag, it's a challenge. Pilots work by Zulu time. Right? So international coordinated time. You just get your breakfast, lunch, dinner according to that clock, so it doesn't matter on which call coast you're in. You just get your schedule because you can find yourself on the East Coast and then the next day on the West Coast and then even Alaska or Hawaii. It feel it it you feel it. [01:14:04] S0: It could be quite challenging.
01:14:04 · Israel Slodowitz, Raz Matus, Molly O'Shea
[01:14:04] S0: It could be quite challenging. [01:14:05] S3: It is challenging. Mostly for my wife. When I get back home on the East Coast, I'm jet lagged. She doesn't like it, but, but it's part of the job. [01:14:13] S1: So there's a hot take, and it's with flight attendants. I wanna ask you both. Do you need flight attendants on private aviation? [01:14:23] S3: So it really depends on the customer's preference. This plane is totally certified to fly without one, and we usually don't have a flight attendant. But as soon as we get up to altitude away from the ground, we're pretty much free. Right? So we have three pilots on this plane, a captain, a first officer, and an autopilot. As soon as we're not task saturated, one of us can get out, and the passengers should never feel that they don't have a flight attendant. We cater. We make drinks. We clean. We entertain them. Everything that a flight attendant will do, we do the same.
01:15:00 · Israel Slodowitz, Molly O'Shea, Raz Matus
[01:15:00] S0: What do you think? I mean, that's that's exactly right. And I think that what we found is that most of our customers actually prefer not to have a flight attendant. We've had times where we've offered them, like, for free. Hey. We have a flight attendant on board. And they're like, no, we prefer not to have one. Like people want privacy. People like to just have their own space. Know, it's a part of flying private part of convenience of flying private is just having you having your own space, being able to just kind of, be be in your own element, you know, and and and moving your own rhythm. And I think having a flight man, just just follow-up a pay down. JSX. JSX. That's a JSX landing right there. Yeah. So I I think people just don't people prefer, like, quiet. I I I so that that's I think what what we see a lot. Some aircraft, like the bigger aircraft, are required to have flight attendants. So above a certain number of, like, seats on board, for safety reasons, have to have flight attendants to have, emergency exit training and stuff like that. Also, like, when you do long flights, making beds, meals, you know, it's nice to have, but 90% of the missions we have, like, people prefer no no flight in it. [01:15:57] S1: I'm really curious for both of your answers on this. I think I know your answer for sure, but what is the favorite type of plane that you've flown? [01:16:05] S3: I never had a bad plane. [01:16:08] S1: Okay.
01:16:08 · Molly O'Shea, Raz Matus
[01:16:08] S1: Okay. [01:16:08] S3: I like them all single engine props. I still tend to fly them quite often, just to keep the skills sharp. This is an amazing plane. I I owe my career to it. It will take you far and wide and also to places where you really can't go with anything else. It's it's great. It will go coast to coast. It will go into the mountains. It will go in the islands. This is the plane I like the most, and and I have my most experience on it. [01:16:38] S1: And it's two of everything, so it's super safe? [01:16:41] S3: Two of everything. If if something fails, we can get safely anywhere. No problem. If we're flying over mountains, over water, this plane is super redundant. They made over a thousand of these, which is tremendous in airplane terms. It's it's crazy, popular. Everywhere we go, there's at least another one parking right next to us. So it's a really good plane. [01:17:07] S1: What do you think people should look for when they're chartering or buying planes? [01:17:13] S3: There's a lot of technical stuff, but when you charter, small details. I I like to say that, when you go to a restroom at a restaurant, if the restroom is not clean, the kitchen isn't clean. So if the planes look good and they're tidy and they're clean, you can count on the people in the cockpit.
01:17:13 · Raz Matus, Israel Slodowitz, Molly O'Shea
[01:17:13] S3: There's a lot of technical stuff, but when you charter, small details. I I like to say that, when you go to a restroom at a restaurant, if the restroom is not clean, the kitchen isn't clean. So if the planes look good and they're tidy and they're clean, you can count on the people in the cockpit. [01:17:31] S0: That's a very good point. Like, you know, a lot times when you go on a charter, you'll open the drawers and stuff. You should do this on your next flight. You open the drawers and stuff, and you just see, like, it looks like a Walmart supercenter. There's just, you know, like, there's just, like, every type of snack there, and, like, there's just no there's no, like, rhyme or rhythm. There's nothing there's nothing you know, people just kinda it's just like a complete disaster. If you look at our plate, you'll just see everything is super clean. Everything's itemized. It tells you a lot about the company behind the scenes that's running it based on, like, how the drawers look. And and so it's just, like, something that we've been really drill drilling in our in our our crew for a very long time. [01:18:04] S1: So what is your favorite type of plane flying? You think you can guess.