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 Sonoma County, California – (Excerpted from Soul Searching, Bert Botta, Aviation International News, 11/2001)             We’re all looking for meaning in our lives. For aviators it’s often as meaningful, yet relatively short lived, as a flight well conducted; an instrument approach flown down to minimums, in lousy weather, to the completion of a satisfyingly professional […]

Bert Botta, Captain

Bert Botta Aviation Expert CV https://seakexperts.com/members/16027-bert-botta Bert Botta, CaptainTWA/NetJets (ret)Email: bert@bertbotta.com How Emotional Intelligence Can Be Key to Winning a Case! You can be smart as a whip intellectually and be an emotional dunce! A high IQ has no relevance to a high EQ, Emotional IQ. We all know people who are very sharp intellectually […]

Leadership For the New Aviator How Dealing With Your Issues Will Fast Track Your Career! Lesson #1 The things that you’re hiding from will hurt you If you start out  thinking you can’t do something, you’re right. A couple times along the timeline of my flying career, especially after a bad sim period, I thought […]

Your life can become richer, in relationships, money and experiences by becoming a good “Connector!”   “Bert is what Malcom Gladwell calls “A Connector.” He forms many more relationships than most people have either the inclination or the capacity for.  He stays in touch with them, and is influential with them well beyond any material […]

Dead Men Not Talking© Four guys at breakfast, all at the same table, each reading a newspaper; backs turned away from each other as if they were carrying a mutual grudge or had been offended by the mere presence of one another. They were oblivious to anything but the bright colors of the USA Today […]