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RFT 585: Airline Pilot Art Ziccardi
FromReady For Takeoff - Turn Your Aviation Passion Into A Career
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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Sep 5, 2022
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Podcast episode
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Art Ziccardi learned to fly as a teenager after participating in Civil Air Patrol for four years. He attended an aviation college and accumulated thousands of hours as a SFI while there. He later obtained a Master's Degree and held several jobs in aviation until getting hired by United Airlines in 1969. During the airline downturn he was 4 pilots from the bottom of the seniority list during the extended United pilot furlough, and when he retired at age 60 he was 4 pilots from the top of the seniority list. After retiring from United he was a B777 flight instructor at Cathay Pacific and a B777 pilot for Jet Airways in India. He is now an author, and has published the first of many aviation-themed novels.
Released:
Sep 5, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode
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