Originally Posted by MartinBishop

First thing is first, see if you can get a 1st class medical. If you can, then you're good.


Then you have to make a decision, do you go to college before or after flight training?

Either way, FL has a great community college system, and you can go there and get a very inexpensive bachelor degree. You'll want to be diverse, so don't get a degree in aviation... get a degree in business, or finance, etc. Something where you can fall back on if you lose your medical or there is a downturn in the aviation sector.


If you go to college prior to flight training, that is fine, but realize the current pilot shortage window could be closed by the time you graduate. On the other hand, if you go to college after flight training, realize it will take a lot of discipline to do school part time while flying. If you can handle it, then that might be the better route. If you don't think you are disciplined enough, or think you might get tied down with family obligations over the next few years, then go to college first.

You MUST have a bachelor degree to work for the major airlines, so unless you want to be stuck at the regionals forever, then you need a degree. It's just a matter of how and when.