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Speaker 1: When I grow up, I want to be a pilot.

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Speaker 2: What does being a pilot mean to you?

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Speaker 3: They can touch the clouds whenever they want, getting places

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Speaker 4: When I grow up, wanna be a pilot with a

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Speaker 4: uniform white, always flying.

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Speaker 2: High up in the sky.

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Speaker 1: When I grow up.

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Speaker 4: I wanna be a firefighter putting out planes, or maybe

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Speaker 4: a police officer keeping people safe. It's so fun to

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Speaker 4: learn what you can be growing up, growing up.

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Speaker 1: When I grow up.

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Speaker 4: I want to be an artist that paints for trips.

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Speaker 4: Wanna be a scientist that does experiments. Oh, so many

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Speaker 4: people you will be growing up, growing up, growing Yeah,

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Speaker 4: growing up, growing up, growing up.

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Speaker 5: Hi, and welcome to Grown Up with Emily, a lingo

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Speaker 5: kids podcast helping amazing kids to grow up and be

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Speaker 5: even more amazing. And Emily, it's me. You know, as

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Speaker 5: a kid, I was always asked what do you want

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Speaker 5: to be when you grow up? And I wanted to

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Speaker 5: be so many things. Does that sound familiar?

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Speaker 1: Then?

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Speaker 5: I am glad you are listening, because you're going to

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Speaker 5: find out what it takes to be anything you want.

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Speaker 5: Are you ready to make flying your superpower?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 6: Grow in up?

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Speaker 2: Hey.

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Speaker 5: Last episode we met Katcha et Jazzaretta, the first Mexican

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Speaker 5: born woman in space. Today we're exploring a job that

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Speaker 5: can take you anywhere in the world.

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Speaker 2: The sky is the limit. Do you love to travel?

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Speaker 5: If you've dreamed of being a pilot, you won't want

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Speaker 5: to miss this. Up Today, we're going to meet Maria Fagerstrom,

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Speaker 5: a Swedish pilot who wants to inspire more females to

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Speaker 4: Rowing up, Rowing up.

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Speaker 5: We're sitting in a Cessna one seventy two Skyhawk on

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Speaker 5: an airfield in Spain. This single engine plane was first

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Speaker 5: built in nineteen fifty six and it's still the plane

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Speaker 5: used in flight training schools around the world. Come along

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Speaker 5: for the ride to learn how to get a pilot certificate.

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Speaker 3: I've never been in a small plane before, Sir. I

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Speaker 3: can see the pilot in the cockpit. It's all so close.

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Speaker 2: Cool, huh.

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Speaker 5: Most of us fly on large jets that hold hundreds

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Speaker 2: This plane only holds four.

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Speaker 5: The propeller and engine are a little noisy. We're on

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Speaker 5: the frontway and preparing for takeoff.

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Speaker 2: Buckalo up. Pretty soon we'll be in the clouds at

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Speaker 2: ten thousand feet. That's as high as we can go,

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Speaker 2: but we're not the only ones in the sky.

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Speaker 5: That commercial jet way over there can go higher. Its

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Speaker 5: cabin is sealed and it circulates air so passengers can breathe.

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Speaker 1: Eha, we're cutting through the clouds.

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Speaker 3: Hey, I see a small plane fling down below.

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Speaker 2: That's a crop duster.

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Speaker 5: The pilot is in a special plane designed to fly

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Speaker 5: low and release water over those fields. It takes skill

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Speaker 5: not to fly into trees or power lines.

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Speaker 1: I guess there are all kinds of pilots. Yep.

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Speaker 5: Different aircraft and different jobs need different pilots. But all

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Speaker 5: pilots must pass physical and mental exams and be.

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Speaker 2: Able to communicate in English. WHOA, we're hitting a little turbulence.

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Speaker 5: Oh phew, it was just an air pocket. As I was,

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Speaker 5: there are all kinds of pilots. To fly a plane

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Speaker 3: And what about those airline jets. That seems like a

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Speaker 2: It certainly is.

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Speaker 5: An airline transport pilot means at least fifteen hundred hours

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Speaker 3: Do they get a break to eat or to use

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Speaker 2: There are always two pilots on board.

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Speaker 5: They can eat, but they're not allowed to eat the

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Speaker 5: same food as the passengers or.

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Speaker 2: The co pilots in case of food poisoning.

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Speaker 5: When pilots take breaks, they rely on George to keep

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Speaker 1: Huh, Who's George?

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Speaker 5: That's a nickname for the autopilot system. When planes reach

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Speaker 5: cruising altitude, pilots turn on George to fly the plane.

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Speaker 2: Here's a trivia question.

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Speaker 5: What year did the Right Brothers become the first pilots

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Speaker 1: Like one hundred years ago?

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Speaker 5: Good guess the Right Brothers Kitty Hawk Flyer took to

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Speaker 2: Do you know the name of the brothers who tried

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Speaker 1: Who were they?

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Speaker 2: The wrong brothers? Joking aside.

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Speaker 5: Air travel has come a long way and continues to improve.

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Speaker 5: The most advanced aircraft are created by the military. Commercial

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Speaker 5: airlines often hire former military pilots. They're well trained and

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Speaker 3: I saw the Blue Angels once.

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Speaker 2: Cool.

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Speaker 5: Blue Angels are pilots from the US Navy and Marine Corps.

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Speaker 2: They put on air shows seen by over ten million

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Speaker 2: people every year. Now that's a wild ride.

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Speaker 1: There are many cool jobs for pilots.

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Speaker 2: They're sure are.

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Speaker 5: We're starting to descend time flies when you're having fun

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Speaker 5: and a smooth landing, we're back on solid ground, safe

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Speaker 2: Are you ready to meet our pilot? Yeah?

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Speaker 5: She announced her name before we took off. It's Captain Fagerstrom. Hi,

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Speaker 5: Captain Fagerstrom. I'm with Lingo kids and we want to

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Speaker 5: find out what it takes to be a pilot.

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Speaker 2: Can we ask some questions?

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Speaker 6: Cars?

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Speaker 1: Great?

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Speaker 2: First off, how long have you been a pilot?

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Speaker 7: Gosh, I've been a pilot since I was eighteen years old,

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Speaker 7: so that's twelve years ago. Now I've been flying airplanes

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Speaker 7: with the passengers for the last seven years, so a

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Speaker 7: commercial pilot for seven years.

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Speaker 2: So cool.

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Speaker 5: Captain Thackerstrom, what would you say our three skills all

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Speaker 6: I think pilots they need to have a problem solving mindset.

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Speaker 7: Every day we come across challenges that we have to

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Speaker 7: deal with to ensure the safe light and teamwork.

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Speaker 6: Is very important too, because we.

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Speaker 7: Work together with many different people from different backgrounds, cultures,

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Speaker 7: and we work in this very small, confined box, so

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Speaker 6: And I think the third trait a good.

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Speaker 7: Trade is also to be able to stay calm during

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Speaker 2: Really interesting.

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Speaker 5: Hopefully later you can give us some tips on how

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Speaker 5: our listeners can start practicing these skills. In the meantime,

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Speaker 5: we have some excellent questions from our Lingo Kids listeners.

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Speaker 1: Captain, why did you decide to become a pilot?

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Speaker 6: I think I have to blame my dad for that.

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Speaker 7: My dad growing up was an airline pilot himself, so

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Speaker 7: I would sit with him on the jump seat in

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Speaker 6: See how he worked, and then he kind of inspired

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Speaker 7: So that's how I got inspired to, yeah, to apply

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Speaker 3: But I don't think i've ever seen a female pilot before.

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Speaker 6: No, no, that's true.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I think the percentage is just five percent female

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Speaker 6: Kids like myself.

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Speaker 7: I was so insecure, like can I do this? Is

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Speaker 7: this for me? It doesn't matter how you look like

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Speaker 6: I really do.

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Speaker 3: You're such a cool pilot, Captain. Do you start the

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Speaker 7: That's a question I get a lot, actually, and it's

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Speaker 7: different and so different airplanes are designed differently. Small airplanes,

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Speaker 3: I get butterflies in my stomach before the plane takes off.

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Speaker 1: Do you get them too?

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Speaker 7: Not anymore because I've been doing it for so long,

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Speaker 7: But I remember the first time I took off.

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Speaker 6: It was this intense feeling in my stomach because when

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Speaker 7: Full power and you just hear the engines roar behind

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Speaker 1: Do you fly with the same crew each time?

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Speaker 7: This also depends on which airline you work for. For me,

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Speaker 7: But this depends on how big of an airplane you're flying,

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Speaker 7: fifty different destinations give or take in Europe, and I

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Speaker 1: Captain, what do you like best about being a pilot.

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Speaker 7: That's an easy question because the best thing about being

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Speaker 6: The views of thirty seven thousand.

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Speaker 7: Feet are amazing because the sun is always shining above

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Speaker 6: It's just beautiful every day.

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Speaker 7: It just looks different, It's exactly it's something we really do.

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Speaker 3: You get to see new places when you arrive.

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Speaker 7: For me, unfortunately, there's no time to explore exploring places.

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Speaker 7: Once we land at our destination, the passenger leave the airplane,

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Speaker 6: Welcome the new passengers on board, and.

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Speaker 7: Then thirty minutes later, no more, we're on our way again,

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Speaker 7: it can be different if you're, for example, a long

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Speaker 6: Fly across Atlantic.

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Speaker 7: My dad he worked as a long hole pilot. He

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Speaker 1: Was ther scariest experience.

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Speaker 7: One time I remember specifically, I flew to this airport

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Speaker 6: But this time it never did. It just stay the same.

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Speaker 7: So what we did we decided to go to a

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Speaker 6: And of course the passengers were.

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Speaker 7: Not too happy about this, But for pilots is safety

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Speaker 5: Wow, Captain Vargerstrom, you answered those with flying colors. What

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Speaker 2: An air plane.

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Speaker 6: I understand that it can be scary to fly an airplane.

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Speaker 7: Sometimes you're not always knowing what's going on behind the scenes.

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Speaker 6: It could be weird noises or things happening that you

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Speaker 7: But what you can do you can always talk to

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Speaker 7: the trained crew members on board if you're afraid of flying.

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Speaker 7: I've had many kids come up to me in the

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Speaker 7: flight day just saying hello, ask their questions, asking about

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Speaker 7: the weather, like what can they expect, and I always

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Speaker 7: do my best and just reassuring them that everything is fine,

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Speaker 7: that's perfectly normal.

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Speaker 6: And also what I find.

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Speaker 7: Calming is just listening to calming music, maybe reading your

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Speaker 5: Thanks for sharing with us, Maria. What can kids do

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Speaker 5: now while there's still growing up to become a pilot.

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Speaker 7: You you can start by understanding how things can fly,

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Speaker 7: Like you can build the paper airplanes and test them.

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Speaker 6: I did that as a kid. You can fly a kite,

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Speaker 7: About wing patterns, and some airports even have programs where

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Speaker 7: volunteer pilots take kids up the smaller airplanes and then have.

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Speaker 6: Training programs on the ground.

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Speaker 7: What I did was I went to my local flying

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Speaker 7: club and I booked a session in these very small

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Speaker 7: airplanes with one engine, and I just took it for

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Speaker 7: really for me?

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Speaker 6: And I loved it. It was the best thing ever.

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Speaker 6: So I can really recommend doing that.

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Speaker 2: That sounds fun.

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Speaker 1: As long as George isn't the only pilot.

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Speaker 5: We hope you enjoyed this episode of the grown Up Podcast.

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Speaker 5: Even if you never planned to be a pilot, it

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Speaker 2: The next time you take a flight.

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