rickair7777

Yes you can.


There's potential overlap between sole man PIC and dual.

ProdigalSon

You'll do great. Go for it!!

Kstoves

You're wife is right. Hanging out in an aviation career advice forum looking for all positive feedback would be like going on a marriage advice forum and expecting positive feedback to the question "should I propose" haha. There are some great posters on this forum who generally like to help people. There are also negative ones who like to bask in their own misfortunes. I haven't posted on here much recently but have monitored it for ten years and that's what I've come to find

rickair7777

Airline aviation becomes a job in the sense that adjusting your sleep schedule, packing, driving/commuting to work, dealing with pre-flight preps and issues is not really fun. But I usually enjoy it after we leave the gate.

Really the downside is being away from home/family, but if your career succeeds your net quality time with the family will be greater than with a white-collar job. Lot's of mommies volunteer at my kid's school but only two daddies, and we're both crew.

kevbo

The family is usually long gone by the time your pay and schedule are decent. Unless you start a family with grey hair. Most pilots kids have two daddies, one they call daddy and one that just pays for college!

Kstoves

Divorce could happen with any job.

I grew up within an hour of philly and all the NYC airports so a lot of friends had airline pilot dads. None of them were divorced...

PRS Guitars

Same thing has happened to me. Basically the website times out on you and you lose everything you typed when you hit submit. I’ve lost some of my best posts that way and then too lazy to redo it.

What I do now, is always copy my post before hitting submit, them if you lose it just reply again and paste.

Oh and for your question, I won’t touch on the financials, which others have done a nice job commenting on. The training though. You do not need to go to a full school, don’t do it, it will be a waste of money. You should already be close to Meeting Commercial requirements. Just learn the maneuvers with a CFI and knock it out, or get your multi private followed by multi commercial, then SE add on, then get your CFI and get a job as a contract CFI. Work at night and weekends and keep your day job. You should be charging at least $75 an hour in that part of the country, handshake to handshake. Way more if you can intice your wall street buddies to learn to fly.

PT6 Flyer

NewCareer,

I was just like you. I started flying at a "late age". But I did not have a wife and kids, which makes a big difference. I also did not own a house, which also makes a big difference.

I ended up as a "freight dog", flying feeders for one of the big cargo companies. I think there is a good chance you could end up doing the very same thing. Take a look at cargo feeder jobs in your area, and see if this is something that appeals to you.

NewCareer

Good point. My wife and I met in college. If she was going to leave, trust me, she’d have done it by now, and she’s had reason. She is the one actually encouraging me to go for this though. She knew I was obsessed with flying and was part of the package. I told her we’d get married when I got my ticket, which was kind of a joke but that’s how it worked out. Point is, I wouldn’t be considering this if I wasn’t sure she was behind me 110%. And if she goes, well, it’s risk I am taking with full knowledge that it’s just that. A risk.

NewCareer

I will. Now that I look at the Corp gigs, as someone else suggested, it looks very cool. Also, I can’t imagine too many of the big wigs and CEOs are flying on xmas and holidays right?

Remember guys, I am not doing this for the money... that would be great if the pay is great, but I am doing this to be happy and I love flying.