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How's it going, fellow aviation enthusiasts? Welcome back to the Tailwind Association podcast. Thank you so much for spending some time with me today. Today, we're going to listen to part 2 of my conversation with my friend, Micah, who is a lead ramp agent at Alaska Airlines based in Salt Lake City. We continue the conversation with some of Micah's icks.
Manny:What is an ick, you may ask? Well, that's something that pilots do that grinds his gears, something that he wishes that pilots did less or did not you know, never did, but we do it anyways. I also share some of mine. I think I share some of mine. But we kinda jump into some of the rumors and some news, more specifically the spirit the potential spirit furloughs are gonna happen in the fall and, some United news.
Manny:We talk about the Airbus and the 73, and Micah says that my 8 shows because I like the 73 and and not the a 320. I mean, I would discuss that in a little bit more detail as to why that is, but we both agree the a 350 is a really good looking plane, more so than the Dreamliner. How say you? What do you think? We also, talk about his dream of flying for the airlines.
Manny:I also answer a question my friend Victor submitted a couple of weeks ago or a few weeks ago regarding age and pursuing his dreams. This has been a common theme throughout the last few episodes, if you have noticed, is that I give my advice and I encourage you to pursue your dreams, but there's certain things that age kind of you age out of certain things, and so you just have to kind of keep that in mind. So but if you don't make it to a certain destination that you want to go, not to be discouraged, it's just you're still flying airplanes. You're still you're still a pilot. But I encourage him to continue, moving forward with his plans to going into an aviation program.
Manny:And, we finish up by sharing why does Micah hold a special place in my heart. So he gave me a really nice gift and that I still hold I cherish that gift, and I wanna share that with you guys today. Anyways, that's it for now. Let's get on with the show. From the Baltimore Studios in Colorado Springs, Colorado, this is the Tailwinds and Sunshine podcast.
Manny:You know, I don't know if that's your intent and just kinda start the conversation from there, you know, because I found out that sometimes when you communicate that, the person was not even aware they were doing that, and they'll back off a little bit. Possible pilot deviation, I have a number for you. Adviser to 8 copy.
Daniel:Dude, this 777 has been really fun to fly. It's honestly just a bigger Embraer 175.
Manny:But the fact that they were sitting on that runway knowing there was a heavy coming their way, unacceptable.
Rachel:I'm from the central part, so I'm from a town. We have more cows than people where I come from. Very country.
Micah:The aches I have, I can go on. Number 1, when the jet bridge is pulled back and we're ready to push and you guys don't have your headsets on.
Patrick:The plan has to be perfect because you can't turn back. You can't turn right. The only way out of that, if the pilot gets into a bad spot or if there's something that's, like, happened at the airport that shuts down a runway, the only way out is up.
Manny:What are some of your icks that pilots do that you're like, I wish they didn't do that?
Micah:The icks I have, I can go on. But number 1, when the JetBridge is pulled back and we're ready to push and you guys don't have your headsets on, And we're trying to get the brakes, especially when we're trying to get the brakes released on time. And we're sitting there and we're waiting and waiting and waiting. And we go out to the side. We knock on we knock on the side of the plane and we're like, put your headset on.
Manny:Here's my biggest stick with Rampers. The one that come off, like, right right out of, the top of my head is those stupid wireless headsets that you guys use. I don't know if you guys use them.
Micah:We don't. But they are the
Manny:most horrible. They're horrible. I can't hear anything. They're really scratchy and, you know, I'm like, I can't, you know, and I have to verify with them and some suggest are using, you know, hand signals because I can't hear them. So if you can avoid using them, please don't use them.
Manny:Most of the time my experience with them is like you can't hear them at all. So there's like the connect ones, you know, the straight just wired ones work the best. Right. Let me see. Any other icks that I have with rampers?
Manny:Not really. I mean, they're just doing their job. Like, I really don't have much of a complaint about let me see if I'm trying to think of anything that's not really much. I mean, do you have anything else with the pilots while I think of mine?
Micah:Yeah. When I'm marshaling and I go to give them the chalk signal that the chalks are in and they don't look at me, and I'm sitting there for, like, 10 seconds telling the chalks
Manny:are and
Micah:I just give I give up, like, after, like, 5 seconds at this point. Okay. Whatever.
Manny:Okay. So you're gonna love me because as soon as I set the braze and shut down the engines, I look outside. That's the first place I look.
Micah:Thank you.
Manny:You know, so I look and I was like, okay. Because because here's the thing. At least at SkyWest, we're not allowed to run the shutdown checklist until we've had the chalks in signal.
Micah:Okay.
Manny:We're not supposed to run it. So it we're kind of waiting on you guys to give us that signal. And, so I guess that's a nick for me, as far as rampers. The rampers that forget about the child safe signal and then just go and start, you know, working. So we set the brakes, chuck in, and then they forget and they just kinda walk on their own.
Manny:And so then I start honking at them. So the Embraer has a horn and we press that horn and it sounds like that's what it sounds like.
Micah:So our pushback our pushback we have a tow barless pushback. We have a winch type of pushback. So when I say we're ready for release and capture, that means I'm ready for the break release. I don't want the push clearance yet though. Because I know that the main controllers, if it takes a while for them to get pushed in out of the gate, they're gonna probably cancel that push clearance because they got people going through the alley.
Micah:Right. And so when I call up, I'm like, hey, we're ready for, break loose and capture. They're still like, alright, breaks loose, clear to push, take the lease out of 45. I'm like, oh, hold on buddy. Hold on.
Micah:It's gonna take at least 30 seconds for us to get up and run-in here. So Yeah. Especially since because our wing walker on the captain's side is the one capturing the airplane. So, they got to still walk out, take the cone out, and then go out and wing walk, too. It just takes time.
Manny:For that, I usually, I usually ask, you know, that you guys ready for breaks? Break, you know, so I say, breaks off, send you the evergreen light, and you guys are good to capture if you guys are using electric cart. Right?
Micah:Yeah.
Manny:Or a bucket. And, and then we call for push. So I don't go I never call for push and then because I know that it might take a little bit longer, and we may have to cancel the push. I haven't gotten a situation like that, but we've definitely had to just kind of, I that's my normal order of things that I do is drop the brakes so we can get an on time departure, get captured, get all that stuff done, then call for push, and then call you guys and tell you what you done. Now we have a procedure at SkyWest, and I don't know if this is standard, with rampers as well, what you're expecting to see.
Manny:Once we get clear to push, right, so they say, hey. Set brakes. Okay. Set the brakes, and we say clear to disconnect. Have a nice day.
Manny:Then you go out and you wait for the salute. You salute us. You clear the area. We are supposed to, we are told to flash the light at you guys. Is it, something that you're like, why did they do that?
Manny:Or is it, like, are you guys expecting a flash?
Micah:With us specifically, we're expecting a but Horizon specifically, we get a flash of the light.
Manny:Interesting. Because, yeah, in our training, we're supposed to give a flash of the nose light.
Micah:The flash of the nose light, honestly. It's fun. But Okay. Alright.
Manny:Okay. I got you. Okay. I'm gonna start doing that. But at nighttime that can be kind of like, oh my god.
Manny:Especially if you have those LED lights. Yeah. Even those small flash. Right? Because the planes that have the halogen lights, those kind of take like a split second to warm up and kind of give the lights just kinda like a glow.
Manny:Mhmm. But if you have LEDs, man, you put them on. Bam.
Micah:Yeah. It
Manny:just hits you right in the face with that blinding light. Right? Either So,
Micah:either wait till we're, you know, off to the side or if we would just push straight back, maybe you could use your, like, turn off lights or something?
Manny:You know what? I've never done that before. I'm gonna start doing that. Mhmm. Especially right now, I'm just gonna do the side light because it seems really, inconvenient and annoying to be doing the the nose light when the the guy pushing the, the plane is right there.
Manny:So I'm gonna start doing that.
Micah:Okay. And then on our mainline flights, sometimes they'll flash the lights too, but, the newer models of our 737s have the taxi lights mounted up next to the landing lights. So we're either expecting a flash from the nose or the wing. So it really you know, we're looking for both either way.
Manny:Let's talk about a little bit about the news. What's been going on recently? On the news, a big one, Spirit is about to furlough pilots. So, that's really unfortunate. Spirit has been dealing with some financial issues because of the merger, the failed merger with JetBlue, and so a lot of pilots, I think it's 260 pilots, that's what I read, are gonna get furloughed.
Manny:I think it's in the fall of this year and there's gonna be a maybe another 160 or close to 200 pilots are gonna be downgraded to the FO position that we're captain. So this is what the aviation industry does, you guys. You're gonna have ups and downs, and sometimes you're gonna have things like the, things like frontier sorry, not frontier, but spirit, furlough pilots to stay afloat. So, for my friends at Spirit that are gonna get possibly furloughed, best of luck. I hope that you can land on your feet.
Manny:Also, if you were a prior SkyWest employee, please reach out. Reach out to me. If you're a prior SkyWest employee, we have what's called the soft soft landings program at SkyWest, which we will take you back. We're happy to have you at SkyWest. That's another good reason to work for SkyWest is we if you left in good terms, we are happy to have you back, and we can get you in contact with a recruiter so you can come back and or come to SkyWest and fly the mighty Embraer 175.
Manny:Also, United, asked its pilots to take some some voluntary unpaid leave as well because of the whole max issues, and I think they're gonna extend it to the summer, but I don't know what's going on there. People have asked if they're gonna start furloughing. I highly doubt it. I don't think it's gonna be I don't think there are United is in a financial position or a bad financial position to actually furlough pilots. I think it's gonna be temporary.
Manny:So stand by. And I heard that, United is also still hiring, but then United's policy is hire till you furlough. So take that for what it's worth. Anything you heard? Any scuttlebutt?
Manny:Any, rumors or anything you've heard on your end?
Micah:No, not recent. Oh, actually, I've heard about I don't know if you've heard, but, I've heard that, Southwest is trying to buy out some some airline, I think, because of their max problems. Oh. I've heard rumors about maybe Sun Country or even Spirit. I I don't know, honestly.
Micah:Yeah. But that would be cool to see some airbuses in Southwest. It'd be kind of cursed, honestly, but an Airbus in Southwest fleet.
Manny:Right. It'd be bloody funny. I can't even I cannot see a Southwest that has Airbus, but I mean, they almost bought a few years back or maybe a couple years back. They were actually thinking about the, the A220 instead of the 700.
Micah:I remember that.
Manny:So they were going and purchasing the, the A220 or the former C Series from Bombardier. So they were thinking about it, but obviously, Southwest, you know, I've heard about that rumor about, Southwest, you know, having talks with the union and stuff about merging seniority list with other airlines and stuff like that. So they're prepping. They have their options. I don't think it's a solid thing, but it'd be really surprising if they do actually end up buying another airline.
Manny:And also it's funny because a friend of mine yesterday went to training department's like, you know, SkyWest should buy Spirit. You know, we should just go buy Spirit and do that and probably lease out the airplanes to other companies because SkyWest has been known for purchasing aircraft. We lease out aircraft to other airlines as well. We lease out engines. We have the charter company SkyWest Charter as well, so we're pretty well diversified.
Manny:So I would not be surprised if SkyWest decides to buy Spirit. They'll be like, yep, we're purchasing it and we're gonna dismantle it or something and and do other stuff with it, you know? Not necessarily in direct competition with their partners because otherwise we can't bite the hand that feeds us, you know. So we would have to do something but I highly doubt it but it was a rumor. There's also rumors that said that SkyWest was gonna start flying the 1 nineties, the ERJ 1 nineties like JetBlue does.
Manny:But again, it's all rumors, but they're always fun to talk about. So I had quite a few emails and messages on Instagram about, the whole age thing. So, the last episode, I talked about how, you know, the older you get, the window of opportunity for certain things or certain career options kinda closes down. Right? And I got some grief from some people because they're saying that, you know, it was discouraging.
Manny:I was discouraging older pilots from pursuing their dreams, and honestly, the truth sometimes hurts. You know, you gotta hear that. You gotta say, hey, I'm not trying to discourage people from pursuing their dreams, but I want to let people know that your age in this industry does matter because of seniority, right? So if you come in as a 55 year old pilot coming in as a second career or like you know your career 2.0 and your dream was to be reached the pinnacle of your career as a heavy captain, right? So a wide body captain may not be possible, right, because these wide body captains have probably been at the company for 20 plus years and now they're at the end of their career flying as a captain of a Dreamliner.
Manny:So your dream, if your dream is like, oh, this is what I want to do and I'm only gonna be happy if I fly this airplane, if I fly this particular position at the airline, you're going to be in for a rude awakening, right? So kind of tamper your dreams and understand that there's certain aspect or there's certain things you're not going to be able to reach because of the and and now you're this is your 2nd career, understand that you know if your dream is so big that you don't care what sacrifices you're gonna have to do, go for it. You know, if your dream is to be a pilot, do it. It's worth it. It's worth the sacrifice.
Manny:It's worth the
Micah:perseverance that you're gonna have to take.
Manny:It is absolutely worth it and do it because if you regret it. And I'm gonna read this, question of my friend Victor actually said. He sent it to me, this morning actually. He said, episode 23 also resonated with me about seeing life through rose colored lenses, so I thought perhaps I take a risk and lean in. I've recently been accepted into a Bachelor of Science in Aviation program starting this fall and I'm facing a bit of a crossroads.
Manny:With no log flying hours and the medical examination ahead, I'm quite nervous. My concerns are 2 fold. I wonder if pursuing this at my stage in life is being delusional given that I'm older and I'm apprehensive about how being openly gay might impact my experience at the school. I realize I've aged out of most things. Your perspective would be incredibly valuable to me.
Manny:Do you think these concerns are significant enough to reconsider the acceptance? Again, I completely understand if you're too busy to respond. Well, I actually love this question. Like I said, if your dream is super strong to where you don't care what happens, do it because you're gonna regret it if you don't do it. Right?
Manny:If you're gonna look back and say, I wish I would have done that, but, I definitely think you should do it and but understand that where you may be intended to be might not happen. So just make sure you readjust your expectations. But if you wanna be a pilot, you wanna fly airplanes for a living, definitely go for it. What do you think? What do you
Micah:think, Micah? 2nd No,
Manny:man. 2nd Am I really old?
Micah:Am I an old farted boy? 2nd I mean, no, no, I'm kidding. What really sucks, especially in the aviation industry, I can't really speak about the pilot side, but, I guess we all really have the comet enemy of we're all fighting time. And, if you don't get it done quick enough, you feel like you've lost all of it, and now it's all down the drain, and you've wasted all this this money and resources and stuff like that. And it's like, oh, what did I even do this for?
Micah:But I mean, I mean, like you said, you gotta learn the hard truth, really. I mean, for Ramp Agents, at least on our side, as long as you can you can throw bags at, at a at a standard rate and get everything done. I mean, I mean, get hired at whatever age you want. I guess if you're if you're 80 and you can throw 10 bags a minute, please come join my team because I need more people like that. I mean, I got people that are 25 and can can't do that.
Micah:So
Manny:Oh, damn. Yeah. What's a standard rate? You mentioned standard. Now I gotta know the standard.
Micah:Well Do
Manny:you guys actually have a standard, like
Micah:like a written standard, but for us, at Alaska we have, 20 minutes from the time the plane shocks to get the bags to the carousel And for us, usually for our offload, that's about 15 to 20 bags a minute. Because it takes us Well, it takes us around 2 to 3 minutes to get, all the equipment set up and get the first bag coming off on the belt. And first bag runner needs to be going out, by around 12 minutes after the plain chalks, And it takes about 3 minutes to get to the carousel from our gate. And and then another 5 minutes to get all the bags on there. And we usually try to send the 1st run or 2 with the majority of the bags, so at least over 50% of the bags.
Micah:So usually we'll try and aim for that. But what really sucks, especially in the winter, is if, the majority of the bags were in one bin and we decided that was gonna be the 1st runner to send out. It really sucks when the majority of the bags in that bin are skis because skis don't count towards regular bags to make that to make that time to carousel time. So, you know, it just kinda catches us by surprise, which is why I wanna try and get a new commodity for bags specifically as oversized or skis or something like that.
Manny:I I was driving to Denver a couple days ago, and I saw a a truck, like, an f 150 or something, and it was just the back of it. It was, like, this huge I was like I was I was getting close I was, like, I was away from the truck. I was like, what the heck is that? But the entire back of that truck was just skis. It was just this huge thing of skis.
Manny:I'm like, man, that's gonna suck. You know, whoever's going it has some luggage. I knew they were going to, like, Hayden or Gunnison or something or or Aspen probably to go do some skiing, but I'm like, man, that's gonna suck forever. It has to load those things. You know, When I was a rapper, I didn't have to deal much with skis because it was in John Wayne.
Manny:But, yeah, I remember we had to be really quick You know, because we had a really quick turnaround time and yeah, we just had to swing those bags, you know, as much as possible and be really quick about it. It was a really physically demanding job. I remember that. It was really physically demanding, especially for the guy in the pit. Oh man.
Manny:That's gonna be, you know and on the smaller, the 7 I never worked heavies. I never worked wide bodies, but I did the 7 3, the Airbus. Airbus was my favorite because it was bigger. You can kind of stand a little bit more, but I used to work Aloha had the let me see who else. Aloha Frontier.
Micah:Who did I
Manny:say I were? Alaska. So Alaska and Aloha had the the OG 737. So it was the they weren't the NG's yet, and they were lowered to the ground, and you can just jump into the pit. But now the at least me.
Manny:Now the NG ones, you have to have the belt loader to get in there without injuring yourself. But it was it was you're hunched over in there, and you're gonna have to get the bags, and it was it's a tough job. Did you I loved it and I picked that job because it got me.
Micah:Sorry.
Manny:Yes. No. Not the 200s. I think the 200s had the skinny engines or maybe those were the 100s. But I think they were I think they might have been the 300s.
Micah:Oh, the classics.
Rachel:The
Manny:one I used to work with those planes. Yeah. The classics. There you go. So I used to work the classics which were sitting lower to the ground and you could actually jump in the pit.
Manny:So it made it easier to start getting to work. But for me, that job, the decision was because I wanted to get closer to aviation, and that allowed me to do that. So it was it was a really fun job in retrospect, but when I was oh, man. It was tough. Yeah.
Manny:It was really physically demanding. Really physically demanding.
Micah:Oh, yeah.
Manny:So yeah. But as far as, like Micah, he's at the ripe age of 19 where he's like, man, he's got all his life ahead, you know, and you kinda have to and and there's this urgency to get a seniority number to get to your final destination as quickly as possible and that's fine. I think that's, if you can swing it, go for it. And obviously, the older you get, the more you feel rushed to get to a certain destination but I've always said this that you need to enjoy the journey because if you feel like you're not gonna be happy until you reach your final destination, you're gonna have a bad time. Right?
Manny:You gotta enjoy it and you gotta embrace wherever is that you end up. You know, I've had because a lot of this stuff we don't have control. Right? The aviation industry has ups and downs and sometimes we get caught in a, you know, caught in a headwind and sometimes we have a tailwind, right? I've flown with captains at SkyWest that their dream was to go fly for United or Delta, but because they were caught in between 9:11, COVID, and any stuff that was out of their control, now they it doesn't make sense for them to lose all that seniority and that pay to go somewhere else just because they wanted to fly a heavy airplane, right?
Manny:So it some of these people have got caught in that situation where is it worth me leaving 15 years of seniority at SkyWest to go take a 50% Pecos somewhere else and start at the bottom. I don't know. That's your decision to make. Is it worth it to you? I don't know but some of these captains that have, you know, they stay there and they're happy about it.
Manny:You know, some of them were a little bit salty about it, but it is what it is, man. You gotta have to, you know, find those silver linings in life and just enjoy it and just make the best of it, But I don't want to ever discourage anybody from pursuing their dreams and doing, but if it's just if you're doing this because you think it's gonna be fun and you're on a whim, it's not gonna turn out pretty. It's not gonna turn out pretty for you. More than likely not. So yeah.
Manny:So, Micah, what's your goal? Like, where do you wanna go fly? Like, what's your what's your dream?
Micah:My dream?
Manny:Talk to me about that.
Micah:Like, my dream? Never mind or my because I'm
Manny:I'm trying to go
Micah:to the airlines. That's that's that's goal number 1. Honestly, I
Rachel:think I think the Airbus would be pretty cool.
Micah:I would wanna fly wanna fly the Airbus. I, I mean, even on the ramp, I got I got trained on working the Airbus. I never actually got to work one though. And that's kind of left me on a cliffhanger because it's so cool how the bins are like hydraulics. You just you just open the flap and then you push the lever.
Micah:And now I, like, have dreams, like, twice a week about opening Airbus bins, like opening and closing Airbus bins. And they're they're, like, so high off the ground. The bid the bins are real nice and big. And I don't know. It's kinda it's kinda just left me hanging, you know, because Alaska, I've retired all the airbus back in September, and we never got one
Manny:when we
Micah:worked here. So,
Manny:I saw them all sitting in Huntsville, I think.
Micah:Oh, yeah.
Manny:I think there's a company that's kinda even American, I think, has taken some of their their bus
Micah:points. I think they've done that. American.
Manny:Yeah. So, yeah. You know, speaking of which, I think there was a rumor saying that if Spirit goes under, the United should take all their Airbuses.
Micah:Yeah. That's true.
Manny:You know, to kind of make up for the fact they're not getting the max tens.
Micah:Yeah.
Manny:I would love to fly like the a 350. That would be so cool.
Micah:Oh, yeah. We could
Manny:fly the a350 is a better looking plane than the air than the, I think the a 350 is a better looking plane than the Dreamliner.
Micah:I I like the new
Manny:Dreamliner the nose?
Micah:Oh my god. Yeah. The nose is kinda wonky.
Manny:Like the the, I think now here's the thing, Boeing made a better looking narrow body airplane than Airbus. Oh. Like the 737 just looks super hot.
Micah:I don't know about that.
Manny:The A320 looks a little dumpy. No. I mean, just from the outside. The flight deck is a whole different story, but I think the, the 73 is just iconic, you know, and I like the look of it. And for I'll give you an example.
Manny:I think the livery, the United livery on a 7 3 looks better than the their livery on the a320. That's just my that's my
Micah:opinion. Your age.
Manny:Yes. Yes. Yes. I am. I'm an, old fart now.
Manny:No. I refuse to believe that. I still feel 20 in my heart, but my knees don't agree with me anymore. But, but I think it's, it's personal preference, but I think, like you and I, the a 350 is just a really nice plane. When I see it in Denver, Lufthansa brings our a 350.
Manny:I was like, man, that's a really nice plane. But, like I said in the episode before, I'm like, man, I would love to fly wide body and just to experience that, but, we'll see what happens. I'm trying to get a new computer going. I don't know where to set it up though because I have no room. Well, I have room in places, but I not the ideal place I want.
Manny:And I'm trying to go get back into swimming because I really really enjoy that. So I wanna be able to, get back into swimming and VAT sim or, what's the other one they use? PilotEdge?
Micah:Oh, yeah. Dude, you need to It's
Manny:a bait service.
Micah:How do I how do I flip my camera around? Just look at it, though. I just turned around.
Manny:Oh. Yeah. That is a sweet setup, man.
Micah:Yeah. I I'd be sitting
Rachel:Oh, yeah.
Micah:Like 9 hours a day and just just flying. Oh, yeah. You got the the phone.
Manny:Yeah. That's what I used to do.
Micah:Oh, yeah.
Manny:I would literally sit there for an entire day just like doing flights, you know, pretend flights. And for me actually, I always like to say that my swimming experience helped me in training, especially dealing with the, MCDU in the plane, the flight management system. It helped a lot. So I was, I was a really avid. I mean, I had so many add ons.
Manny:I had the 777, the 75. I had all of them, Tola's A320. I had everything and I stopped because I got super busy. Since I got to SkyWest, it's just been like nonstop.
Micah:Yeah.
Manny:Nonstop training, nonstop flying, nonstop working, and I'm not complaining about it because I love it, but it's just I wish I had a little bit more time for this semi, and I'm and I think I'm gonna be able to have a little bit more time here in the future, which is why also doing more of the podcast as well because I have more time. Oh, oh, oh, before I forget, I was gonna mention this. So So the the why does Micah have a special place in my heart is because he is the only spotter that was able to catch me. We coordinated this. I remember that because I posted a story and you were in Salt Lake.
Manny:I flew into Salt Lake and he caught a picture of me coming into Salt Lake. I am going to pin that in my profile, in Instagram. So I'll have that. You can check it out at climbvxcli m, b as in bravo, v as in Victor, x-ray. You can check it out there, and, the pictures that he took, it's still part of my iPad.
Manny:It's still my background in my iPad, so I still have it there. Yeah. So I haven't had anyone capture me flying or maybe they have, but they don't know me. So they don't, you know, they don't reach out to me. But, I don't know how I I can coordinate that a little bit more because I've seen some of my friends that they get videos of them.
Manny:They get pictures. I'm, like, I feel like I'm like a little jealous. I'm like, man, I wish I had more pictures of me flying. So I wish I can get that. Anyway, Micah is also on Instagram.
Manny:You can check out his page. That link is in the show notes. You can check it out. And, so all this stuff that we talked about, any links will be in the show notes. I really appreciate the questions you guys are putting, and you're sending me really good questions.
Manny:I do have I'm going today. I swear today, I'm gonna go out to the post office and put those postcards and also trading cards that I have. I have a stack of those e 175 delta trading cards that are very popular apparently in social media. I literally had this kid come up to me in San Francisco. I was talking with, with my coworker and this kid just came up to me.
Manny:He's like, do you have trading cards? I'm like, hell, yeah. Here here they are. You know, I was like, here's one. I I gave out, like, 5 in one one day.
Manny:Wow. So they're pretty popular. So I have a stack of those and I'll send those out. Yeah. And if you want that, just make sure you email me or there's a form in the show notes so you can submit your questions.
Manny:You can reach out to me on Instagram, email. You can see and I'll go ahead and if you submit a question or a story, I'll go ahead and send you out a postcard or a trading card, whichever you like. Anyways, guys, thank you so much for being part of the show. I really do appreciate it. Micah, thanks once again for being here.
Manny:Oh, thank you. We'll catch up later.
Micah:Thank you, man.
Manny:Yeah. Hey, fellow aviation enthusiasts. Before I let you go, I'd like to ask you for a huge favor. If you could please go to the platform where you're listening this podcast in and leave a review, some feedback, and some comments. I really do appreciate that.
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