Originally Posted by
Sliceback
1. Want to be an airline pilot? Don't go active duty military to fly if you can afford to pay for the civilian training.
2. Are you self motivated? Don't need your hand held? Set goals and achieve them? I'd recommend going to a full time flight school ASAP. Quit full time college. Spend a year as a CFI, get hired by an American Airlines regional airline that has a flow through agreement, and do the college part time, year round, while you're flying as a pilot.
If you envision age 25 choosing college then flying vs flying then college when you're 25 the college first guy with have a degree and be the FO to the guy who choose flying first and finished college part time. Both 25, both with degrees, one CA, one FO, and the CA will flow to American Airlines several sooner.
It's an option to consider.
Yeah. Then get married, have a kid or two, and put college on ice because you no longer have time. Then you can be one of the guys in the Major's thread asking "does Delta hire guys without a degree?.....My cousin's friend's uncle got hired at United without one!"