Adva Amir
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107 appearances
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first heard May 2025
last heard May 2025
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The jet lag. You know, before in the regional airlines, normally you fly in the morning, you come back at night and you do a couple of flights during the day. Here, if you do one long leg, you stay the night somewhere with a big difference in time zone, then you have to come back. So some people think pilots can deal better with a jet lag. We don't.
But the big switch I think is starting to enjoy the pilot life. Like really, because till now I was in a kind of a race since I started till day one to get as many hours as you need to get to the first airline, which is the regional. And then in a race to get to the major airline where I fly right now. So I was in a race all the time. And sometimes I forgot to enjoy the journey.
And this is also something I'm telling people, like, enjoy the journey and all part of it because... Right now, it's not a secret that also I love my lifestyle. I love my life. I love flying these big jets and my company. But sometimes you do miss the small aircraft where you could actually fly. It's not a secret that our airplanes, 90, 95% of the time we fly on autopilot.
We do have a lot of tasks to do during and we are in control of the airplane eventually. But you do miss like, you know, hand flying and you miss all those little stuff and maybe missing a little bit of flight instructing, just a little bit. It's important to enjoy every step of the way. So I think the big thing right now is really enjoying my lifestyle finally.
98 to 95% of the flight is normally on autopilot. We have a lot of tasks during autopilot. We have to monitor traffic and weather and fuel and systems and reporting points and working as a crew if something comes up from the cabin or from the cockpit. We have a lot of monitoring to do.
And it's not just we're sitting there like most people think, but a lot of the flights right now are mostly automated.
I came here on vacation when I just was kind of my first time I was surfing. I was surfing in Waikiki Beach.
I really started surfing like one and a half years ago, almost two years ago.
Super new, super new. And I enjoy every part of it. It teach me a lot of things about myself, which is insane. You know, you also have to deal with a lot of fears. And I think surfing is a really a mental game more than it's the physical game. So I came to Hawaii for vacation and about two weeks I was loving it and I just decided to stay.
Yeah. I knew I wanted to work for them, but it's kind of all, everything happened at the same time and it was amazing.
When I started surfing, I loved it so much that I went out like every day that I could. And then... I heard the comments of people telling me, now you're too old, right? Because now I'm 31. I'm not 21. When I was 21, I started flying. I was too young. But now learning a sport at 31 is too old. You're too old. You're never going to get it. You cannot improve at that age.
You have to be really dedicated for that. And... I finally found something that I'm so passionate about. And all these comments right now, they didn't do anything for me because I knew better now because I already experienced all these comments before. And when I'm passionate about something, I don't care about anything else. I'm just going with it. And
I just got aboard and just started going out again and again and again and again and again. And one day I was in the water and there was another Israeli guy over there and we got connected. He became my coach and everything just happened fluently and naturally. And I moved to smaller boards and I started surfing bigger waves. And every step of the way, I was so scared.
Even today, when I go in the water, I'm like, I have this fear of the big waves, of not being good, of falling in front of other people, which is supposed to be fun. But, you know, when you have to tell yourself and talk to yourself and, you know, just enjoy it.
First of all, Ilana, I'm a spoiled surfer. So this is why I surf in Hawaii, only in warm water. Ah, okay.
What I realized this year, because last year I was surfing during the winter and the winter is where we get here, the bigger waves and suddenly pushing myself to bigger and bigger waves. And I remember like some sessions I would be out there, I would be so, so scared. I don't even want to catch one wave. I would just be there scared.
Fast forward to this winter, all of a sudden you go to the same spots and you have the same waves and you're not as fear as you were. So I learned the fear level also can change, but it's a matter of pushing yourself. And even if not catching any wave, being out there, sometimes you just have to be. And from being at a spot, you'll grow.
I need to work on it, Ilana. I need to chill, you're right. Yeah, for sure. I think this is a thing for me. It's hard for me to just chill. And I know I need this, but it's kind of a race that I need to tell myself, okay, today you are resting, you're staying at home or at the beach. I think there is this part of it that, yes, I need to chill for sure. It's
And it's not easy sometimes for some people. On the other hand, I think when you're doing stuff that you're very passionate about, you always want to do that. You want to fly, you want to surf. So I'm happy that I found my passion. Finally, it's like some people would say it's late in life. Yeah. But I was doing a lot of sports as a young kid. I was swimming. I was playing volleyball.
I was playing soccer. I did a lot of things and I was swimming too. And when I found surfing, all the sparks in the air, like you fall in love. It's what happened to me. Yeah.
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