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Old 04-20-2010 | 09:54 AM
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Well, I'm in high school right now. I take my medication primarily for school. It helps me to concentrate on doing my homework. I am in no way dependant on it though. I am able to focus on anything if I really enjoy it and I really enjoy flying. I was considering getting my degree in Aviation Operations from St. Cloud State University and enrolling in the AT-CTI program assosciatied with that degree. I realize that their is a medical required for ATC, but I believe that if I get off my medication in college I would get the ATC medical. I would work as an ATC for a few years. During these years I would battle with the FAA trying to receive a pilots Class I medical. If that was granted I would try and get the SI taken off the medical. If I am then able to get an unrestricted medical, I would take the money I have saved and enroll in a program where I would earn all of my ratings and hours. Then I would try and get a job with an airline. I just hesitate to get a degree in flight if I'm not certain that I could get a job afterwards. Who knows, if I become an ATC, maybe I would just want to stay an ATC and fly in my spare time as a general aviation pilot. But my dream is to be a pilot for an airline and fly to all corners of the world. I'm not going to give up on my dream. I've devoted most of my life to flying and I don't want to just quit because of some stupid disease I have, in which people think I am uncapable of flying safely because of it.
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