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David Campbell

David is 49 Private pilot who walked away from a high paying job to start his career in aviation.

Episode 53Training & checkridesFull episode

David is 49 Private pilot who walked away from a high paying job to start his career in aviation. Some of the things David and I talk about in this episode are. Why David left a $100,000 a year job to start training and learn to become a pilot.

How David originally went to college to become a pilot. Why David didn’t finish his pilot training at Western Michigan. How struggles in college and not seeing how he could pay for flying cause David to stray from his dream in college.

How flying has always been expensive and always will be expensive. We talk about if David regrets any of the decisions he made in the past. How he had a good friend who finished his training at Western Michigan and quit flying farther down the line.

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