{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Pilot to Pilot","title":"James Heath: Pilot Turned ATC","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":4355,"description":"Pilot to Pilot podcast ep 022 ft James Heath: Pilot turned ATC.\nWhat is going on Avination, Welcome back to the Pilot to Pilot podcast, today I am talking with aviation journeyman James Heath. James is a former CFI, airline ground handler, 2x regional pilot and current air traffic controller. In today's episode we talk about. How a movie led him to aviation.\nHow the book Contact led him down the path to find ET.\nHow a young Eagle flight with the EAA at age 9 was one of the coolest and most terrifying things he has done.\nJames was making more money playing more money playing online poker than his part-time jobs.\nHow his mom saying no to dropping out of college for online poker led him to take aviation classes.\nJames was hooked from his first flight at Illinois.\nChanged his major 2 years into college.\nWhich in turn gave him put him on the 6-year plan.\nJames’s mom made him call her before and after every flight.\nHow James graduated in one of the worst times in aviation.\nWhy he chose to become a flight instructor in Arizona over Illinois.\nWhat it was like teaching all foreign students.\nWhat made James think about becoming an Air Traffic Controller.\nWhat really sold him on ATC.\nApplied in ATC July 2009 (terrible time to apply for ATC).\nWhy he left being a CFI and became a ground handler.\nHow to he ended up flying caravans for the company he was a ground handler for.\nWe talk about what it is like flying a Caravan into the busiest airports in the US.\nWhy he chose the to fly for the regionals.\nHow he chose between the different regionals at the time.\nWhat it was like flying at the regionals.\nHow he ended up switching regionals.\nHow the plans you make rarely work out in this industry.\nWhy it is important to have a backup plan.\nWhen he finally got the call from ATC.\nHow ATC hires.\nWhy James decided to walk away from flying to become a controller.\nWe talk In detail about what the process is to become an ATC.\nHow the training to become an Air Traffic Controller is a very...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/s8a-VNhA3KT8ziTM9GEoglQYN8nsFNC-InL8Qj1FlcM/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80OWFm/YzIzMjA3N2UwMGRj/MmFlY2YzNTNlOGJj/N2RlZC5qcGVn.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}