Aviation Needs All Your Talents and Skills — AviatorCast 131

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Are you a bit sheepish about not knowing everything in aviation? Not sure if you’ll ever catch up? The aviation industry and community actually needs what you have RIGHT NOW. What skills have you already built that can benefit the community?

This podcast is all about cultivating and translating over those talents you have into aviation. You’ll be greatly rewarded as a result, and it’ll help with aviation community grow.

In this podcast we will discuss:

The unlikely talents in my own story that helped build Angle of Attack

Some creative ideas on talents and how they could be used in aviation

An exercise to find your talents and skills to add to aviation

A bit on Strengths Finder 2.0 to find some of your strengths

The aviation community really does need what you have to offer. Anyone can learn to fly. But your skills and talents are likely unique assets that could catapult your career or momentum toward becoming a pilot.

Go get after it, aviators!

Episode Transcript

On this episode of AviatorCast, aviation needs all your talents and skills.

Welcome aviators to another episode of AviatorCast. Load up your flight bag with useful flight training topics, interviews and aviation passion. Let’s kick the tires and light the fires. Coming to you from Angle of Attack headquarters in Homer, Alaska. Here’s your host and flight instructor, Chris Palmer.

Welcome everyone to another episode of AviatorCast. I’m really happy to have you here. I kind of have a different and interesting subject for you today, but I’m glad you made it here, whether you’re on YouTube, Spotify, iTunes, or any of the other places where this thing shows up. I appreciate you being here. If you’re new, great to have you. This is a podcast all about flight training and becoming a better pilot, a safer pilot, and just you’re able to continually learn. That’s what it’s all about.

Okay, so for today we are going to talk about why aviation needs all your talents and skills. So often we think about aviation as a thing we need to learn everything aviation, we need to be all in on aviation. And while to a certain extent, that’s true, and those podcasts helps, like I just mentioned, there are so many things that you already are, so many things you already do that you could bring to aviation to enrich in your career, to improve the community.

And that’s kind of the point I want to get across today is how do we actually go about doing that? So what are some of the other talents that you’ve developed in your life? As we’re going throughout this podcast today, I want you to think about your history. I actually have a little bit of an exercise at the end for you to actually sit down and figure some of these things out, what you can bring to aviation, be creative about it and bring it. But what are some other things that you’ve developed, whether you’ve gone to school for it or skills you’ve developed, hobbies you have, whatever it is, how can you bring those things to aviation, and are you unsure if that skill, whatever it is you have, can be applied to aviation. That’s going to be what we go through today.

I want to talk about my story a little bit first because I don’t ever really talk about my background, which is fine. I don’t like talking about myself, but I think in this case, it’s applicable to talk about where I came from, okay, and why some of the things that we’re churning on in the background throughout my childhood and teenage years ended up really blessing my life as I went through aviation and as I grew into the position I’m in now owning this company and doing what I do. And just as like an end marker, the biggest thing I do in aviation is I create media like this podcast, like the YouTube videos that I do, the courses that I do.