364 Second Career in Aviation: Flying for PlaneSense with Jim Goldfuss + GA News
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🗓️ 17 January 2025
⏱️ 70 minutes
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Summary
Max talks with Jim Goldfuss about his journey from a career in logistics and retail to fulfilling his dream of flying professionally with PlaneSense, a fractional aircraft ownership company. Growing up around aviation, Jim earned his private pilot’s license in 1989 but paused his flying ambitions due to financial constraints. Decades later, with stable finances and family support, he resumed training, earning his instrument rating, commercial license, and Certified Flight Instructor (CFI) certificate between 2020 and 2022.
Jim credits his time as a CFI with sharpening his aviation skills and communication abilities, which prepared him for his current role. He joined PlaneSense after a year-long application process, leveraging persistence and networking to stand out. At PlaneSense, Jim flies Pilatus PC-12s as a second-in-command, alternating legs with captains and handling preflight, avionics programming, and monitoring tasks. He praises the company’s culture, advanced equipment, and comprehensive training.
Jim’s work involves a mix of short flights in the Northeast and longer legs to destinations like Florida and the Rockies. He aims to become a captain and potentially join the training department. Jim emphasizes the importance of networking for aspiring pilots pursuing their aviation dreams.
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| 0:00.0 | Have you ever thought about leaving your current job and having a second career in aviation? |
| 0:06.6 | Today we're talking with Jim Goldfuss, who left his career, became a CFI, and about two years |
| 0:11.1 | later was hired by Plainsc to fly charters around the country in the Pilates PC12. |
| 0:16.7 | So stick around to hear the strategy that he used to get his dream job and what it's like to fly charter for plain sense. |
| 0:23.0 | Hello again and welcome to Aviation News Talk, where we talk in general aviation. |
| 0:26.9 | My name is Max Trescott. I've been flying for 50 years. I'm the author of several books and the 2008 National Flight Instructor of the Year. |
| 0:33.4 | And my mission is to help you become the safest possible pilot. |
| 0:43.2 | Last week in episode 363, we talked with Dr. Mark Alford about what it was like buying a Cirrus a vision jet, getting the type rating, and flying around the country with me for 25 |
| 0:48.0 | hours. So if you didn't hear that episode, you may want to check it out at AviationNewstalk.com |
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| 1:33.2 | Coming up in the news for the week of January 13th, 2025, an airline pilot is arrested. |
| 1:38.7 | Hiring by the airlines was down sharply in 2024. |
| 1:42.0 | And we have an aviation cats and dog story. All this and more, and the |
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