Thanks for the comments guys. I've gotten a few e-mails through the site where pilots are listing their bio (i.e. went to college, flight instructed, flew freight, worked for a regional, now working for Brand X as a Captain) to post on the "advice from others" section.

To tell you the truth, I'm not going to post those for a couple of reasons. One, EVERY "I wanna be an airline pilot" website has those, and likely if someone has found my little website, they've already been over to the other big websites that have that stuff.

Two, and most importantly, those stories constitute IMO the extreme bias at most of those sites. Of course the "successful" pilots are going to post on a forum like that, but you rarely read the stories of the countless guys that were just as smart, just as talented, but didn't make it despite their best efforts because of the tremendous hurdles that we all know exist but aren't really discussed in depth.

Again, thanks for the comments. I'm going to put up a slightly expanded section describing an example military career path shortly using the info a few of you guys sent me information about.