Originally Posted by
SkyHigh
Sure people succeed in aviation. They also pick a winner in the show American Idol. It is possible of course but the individual odds are slim and not worth throwing a life away over. Life isn't like a Disney movie. In the real world people get hurt.
In my peer group I know more people who died with a yoke in hand than those who made it to a major.
SkyHigh
You were in the wrong peer group, my friend. In my "peer group", nearly every one of them is gainfully and happily employed flying airplanes. A low percentage are airline pilots, though. Most of the guys that I flew with in my first years as a charter pilot are now with good corporations or fractionals. I can only think of one guy that got killed, and it was flying aerobatics in his own Great Lakes biplane. None of us flew night piston freight, none of us went through regionals, and very few went to an "aviation school" for our ratings
There are many ways to get to and through a career flying airplanes. Don't think you have to be locked into a certain path that has to include regionals or even airlines at all, for that matter.