“You can have letters of recommendation from Yeager, Sollenberger and entire Red Bull air racing team”

That’s funny, I was just having coffee with Chuck, Sully and Hans from Red Bull and they all aid the same thing.

All kidding aside, I have considered a degree but I really don’t know I could cope with work and study together. My commute to work is 10 hours followed by long haul night patterns and my brain hurts just thinking about study . . . .

Do the airlines prefer certain types of degree?

Also, I get a lot of conflicting information. The Virgin recruiter at the job fair in LAS (now there’s an interesting experience) was sure I could get hired without a degree but when I check the feedback from those joining Virgin from the website feed I notice they all have been to university!

And most have internal recs too. Trouble is, I don’t know a single airline pilot working here in the US except for the nice folk I chat to during my commute.

I need to frequent pilot bars more often.