Jack Parrish resigned from Envoy Air at a coffee shop with shaking hands. Six years later, Parrish Aviation has 12 aircraft, nine more Sling NGTs on order, a second location opening this month, and a glider-first training program that's dropping solo times below 20 hours.In this episode of The Aviation Business Podcast, Tim Jedrek sits down with Jack Parrish, President and Founder of Parrish Aviation, an FAA Part 141 Career Program flight school at Dallas Executive Airport in Dallas, TX. Jack is a former airline pilot on the Boeing 767, the current Part 141 Chief Flight Instructor, a NAFI Master CFI (top 1% of all U.S. flight instructors), and a newly appointed board member of the Flight School Association International (FASI, formerly FASANA).This conversation covers the real details of building and scaling a Part 141 flight school: why in-house maintenance is the growth threshold every owner has to cross, why Jack says it's foolish not to go 141, how his glider-first airmanship program is getting students to solo in the 10 to 20 hour range, why he's betting the fleet on the Sling NGT platform, how tying CFI pay to pass rates changes instructor behavior, the TikTok strategy that launched the school with zero reputation, and what FASI is actually doing for the industry behind the scenes.If you run a flight school, if you're thinking about starting one, or if you want to hear what it looks like when someone builds an operation the right way from day one, this episode is for you.== CONNECT WITH JACK PARRISH ==Website: https://www.parrishaviation.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/parrishaviation/Phone: (469) 886-8089== CONNECT WITH RIGHT RUDDER MARKETING ==Website: https://rightruddermarketing.comSchedule a Strategy Call: https://rightruddermarketing.com/schedule-callPhone: 314-804-1200Email: info@rightruddermarketing.comInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/rightruddermarketing/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@rightruddermarketingSpotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/6HqS2ljQR33xof9Xnel9AwThe Aviation Business Podcast is produced by Right Rudder Marketing, the only full-service digital marketing agency built exclusively for flight schools.