19 year old son wants to fly
Son, 19 and in excellent health and at leading regional university, is considering a flying career. Training through multi-engine/instrument will be expensive, as we all know. Military flight training is a feast or famine crap shoot.
Given turbulence in the airline industry, fuel prices, economic sine wave, age 65 retirement age, projected shortage of pilots, relative shortfall of military training, and other variables, what is the collective wisdom that you all can offer?
What are the short, medium, and longterm prospects for someone of this age?
How best to proceed? Not to proceed?
Last edited by Daddio; 12-16-2007 at 06:22 PM.