Lifeguard to Airline Pilot - David Laverty
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English - January 19, 2021 12:00 - 1 hour - 46.7 MBLeisure Sports Swimming lifeguards swimming pools water safety leisure centres pool rescue lifeguard training leisure management Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Poolview's Robin McGloughlin in conversation with Senior First Officer David Laverty, a seasoned Commercial Airline Pilot
In this session we discover that by the age of 17, David was not only a qualified Lifeguard but also a qualified pilot - some combination!
We re-live his short lived musical career, flying school and his first time at the controls of a jet aircraft.
We then dig into continual pilot training and discover some amazing parallels with Lifeguards.
The lessons from Sully and Kegworth and delve into the effects of "the Covid" on pilots working practices, the airline industry in general and what the future might hold!
Best of all though, we learn about the true nature of circulating air within an aircraft!