Gget ready to spend money and expect $250k for all ratings and a 4 year degree at the schools you listed, stand by for incoming!
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Search function will provide hours of reading. Particularly the military route for an airline.
Put him through medical school, become a plastic surgeon, he can do all the flying he wants.