Hi everybody,
I have been reading these forums for a while now and have learned alot. I read pretty much everything I can find about aviation and really try to inform myself. But although I do all this reading I am still pretty much unsure about what to do. I have almost no contacs to airline pilots what I would like to change although that is pretty difficult for me. Maybe I should describe my situation first: I am a US-citizen. I moved to Germany with my parents when I was four. I am going to German school and will be graduating in about two and a half years (In Germany one graduates a bit later but there is no such thing as junior college and I will probably be able to skip that in the US too). I will be doing an internship at Lufthansa CityLine Technik in EDDH in January and I know one pilot wo works for them and helped me get to that internship. I am looking forward to that and I am sure that I will be able to learn alot there. The thing is that I want to be a pilot in the USA. So my plan is to move to the States after school and start an aviation career. My problem is that I know nobody over there anymore so nobody will really be able to help me out a bit. I know some people but they all have nothing to do with aviation. I would just like to get to know some people who I could talk to and who could give me some advice. Right now I am pretty helpless because I read so many different opinions here and everywhere so I just don't know what to believe and what to think. The only thing I know is that I a want to be a pilot and that I will make it somehow I just have no idea how in the moment. I love flying and everytime I get to fly I just enjoy it. I have read extremly much about the life as a pilot and I know what expects me and I am sure I want to do it. I have had a few opportunities to fly a small cessna with an instructor and I know that flying is what I want to do.

I know that people ask over and over again here how to get to their goal of being a pilot but I wanted some advice too. I hope I don't bother somebody by asking again. I am just don't know how to make it in my situation coming home from Germany and knowing nobody. So my question is: where can I get to know people? Shall I just go to EDDH on a weekend morning and wait until the Continental 757 (They are te only US-airline that comes to Hamburg) arrives and try to get hold of the pilots? Do I have a chance? Are there other things I can do? Please don't be annoyed by me asking.


Please excuse me if I have done some mistakes, I live in Germany for a while now and am not perfect in my english-writing skills anymore.

Thanks in advance

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Jakob