Rob Ceravolo and his canineTropic Ocean AirwaysAs I ready to depart the Navy after years of energetic obligation as a fighter pilot, most of my pal
Rob Ceravolo and his canine
Tropic Ocean Airways
As I ready to depart the Navy after years of energetic obligation as a fighter pilot, most of my pals had been turning into airline pilots, however that life wasn’t for me. There was just one factor I wished to do: begin a enterprise.
Utilizing the cash I might earned within the service and raised by promoting my home, automobile, boat, motorbike and kayak, I purchased a 1976 Cessna 206 four-passenger airplane to get began on constructing my very own airline in 2009. I labored on it nights and weekends as I served my final two years of energetic obligation, driving a bicycle as an alternative of driving a automobile to economize.
It took two years to get my license to function. In the meantime, I needed to cowl bills like insurance coverage and the notice on the airplane, with none income coming in. Once I lastly bought the license to function, the enterprise was about two weeks away from operating out of money.
Fortuitously, the enterprise took off — largely due to my navy expertise. At the moment, Tropic Ocean Airways has turn into one of many largest amphibious airways on this planet, which means we fly seaplanes that take off on land and contact down on the water. Final 12 months we flew 45,000 individuals in markets from New York to the Philippines, bringing in about $15 million in income, with 100 staff.
Round this time of 12 months, I usually discover articles calling for extra job coaching for navy…