My parents don't want me to become a pilot
02-22-2020, 06:35 PM
#11
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Originally Posted by Fatcat
I'm not crazy passionate about flying but this job perfectly fulfils my needs and wants in life. Travel, Decent salary, Have time for hobbies and side gigs, don't bring work home, not crazy hard to understand how to fly compared to STEM. I can go on but a airline pilot career fits my personality and what I want out of life.
02-22-2020, 06:39 PM
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Aaaaand.....at 17 you know what you want out of life.
With all due respect....you have no idea.
Your parents their rules.
Thats how it works.
Get a degree in something that actually interests you and that is useful in life.
Get your private pilots license with your own money and experience how long it takes to save $12k vs spending it.
Fly recreationally for the duration of your degree then go back to your parents and renegotiate after you’ve actually achieved something.
By the way introduction flights are meant to sell you a training course and not intended as an aptitude assessment.
I’ve done hundreds.
With all due respect....you have no idea.
Your parents their rules.
Thats how it works.
Get a degree in something that actually interests you and that is useful in life.
Get your private pilots license with your own money and experience how long it takes to save $12k vs spending it.
Fly recreationally for the duration of your degree then go back to your parents and renegotiate after you’ve actually achieved something.
By the way introduction flights are meant to sell you a training course and not intended as an aptitude assessment.
I’ve done hundreds.
02-22-2020, 06:47 PM
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Originally Posted by TiredSoul
Aaaaand.....at 17 you know what you want out of life.
With all due respect....you have no idea.
Your parents their rules.
Thats how it works.
Get a degree in something that actually interests you and that is useful in life.
Get your private pilots license with your own money and experience how long it takes to save $12k vs spending it.
Fly recreationally for the duration of your degree then go back to your parents and renegotiate after you’ve actually achieved something.
By the way introduction flights are meant to sell you a training course and not intended as an aptitude assessment.
I’ve done hundreds.
With all due respect....you have no idea.
Your parents their rules.
Thats how it works.
Get a degree in something that actually interests you and that is useful in life.
Get your private pilots license with your own money and experience how long it takes to save $12k vs spending it.
Fly recreationally for the duration of your degree then go back to your parents and renegotiate after you’ve actually achieved something.
By the way introduction flights are meant to sell you a training course and not intended as an aptitude assessment.
I’ve done hundreds.
02-22-2020, 06:54 PM
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Originally Posted by Fatcat
I'm not crazy passionate about flying but this job perfectly fulfils my needs and wants in life. Travel, Decent salary, Have time for hobbies and side gigs, don't bring work home, not crazy hard to understand how to fly compared to STEM. I can go on but a airline pilot career fits my personality and what I want out of life.
2. Get a private license
3. Join an Air Guard or USAF Reserve unit and get them to send you to UPT the day you graduate.
as soon as you are done with UPT get your ATC mins and go to work for a regional.
02-22-2020, 07:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog
1. Go to college
2. Get a private license
3. Join an Air Guard or USAF Reserve unit and get them to send you to UPT the day you graduate.
as soon as you are done with UPT get your ATC mins and go to work for a regional.
2. Get a private license
3. Join an Air Guard or USAF Reserve unit and get them to send you to UPT the day you graduate.
as soon as you are done with UPT get your ATC mins and go to work for a regional.
SMH
02-22-2020, 07:25 PM
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Originally Posted by Excargodog
1. Go to college
2. Get a private license
3. Join an Air Guard or USAF Reserve unit and get them to send you to UPT the day you graduate.
as soon as you are done with UPT get your ATC mins and go to work for a regional.
2. Get a private license
3. Join an Air Guard or USAF Reserve unit and get them to send you to UPT the day you graduate.
as soon as you are done with UPT get your ATC mins and go to work for a regional.
02-22-2020, 07:44 PM
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Originally Posted by Fatcat
how long will this take? I thought seniority mattered.
02-22-2020, 07:59 PM
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Originally Posted by Fatcat
how long will this take? I thought seniority mattered.
UPT used to take a full year, but they’ve shortened it now - so even with survival training it’s now just under a year.
You will probably have to fly at least 50 hours to get your PPL, pick up another 250 or so in UPT, then need to get another 450 flight hours to be R-ATP eligible as a military trained pilot (versus 1500 from a local civilian flight school) which you probably can get in a few deployments to the sandbox if we are still over there.
and yeah, seniority matters...it matters a lot. That’s WHY it takes time. How did you expect to get seniority over people who started this process years ago?
02-22-2020, 09:01 PM
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OP -
I won’t say that you don’t know what you dont know at 17.
i knew much earlier that I wanted to TRY aviation. I had many hurdles thrown in my way and persevered through them all.’you can do it. But here is the difference I see in us at 17. I had a Plan B and C. You do not it seems and tgat could be a great failure for you and your path. You almost sound like a troll barking out every sound bite from reading Internet forums with lout so much as having sat in a cockpit.
Pursue the quest! I went against quite a few to include my mother when I told her I was joining the Marines.
But like I said - I had options. You should too.
I won’t say that you don’t know what you dont know at 17.
i knew much earlier that I wanted to TRY aviation. I had many hurdles thrown in my way and persevered through them all.’you can do it. But here is the difference I see in us at 17. I had a Plan B and C. You do not it seems and tgat could be a great failure for you and your path. You almost sound like a troll barking out every sound bite from reading Internet forums with lout so much as having sat in a cockpit.
Pursue the quest! I went against quite a few to include my mother when I told her I was joining the Marines.
But like I said - I had options. You should too.
02-22-2020, 10:08 PM
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Originally Posted by USMCFLYR
OP -
I won’t say that you don’t know what you dont know at 17.
i knew much earlier that I wanted to TRY aviation. I had many hurdles thrown in my way and persevered through them all.’you can do it. But here is the difference I see in us at 17. I had a Plan B and C. You do not it seems and tgat could be a great failure for you and your path. You almost sound like a troll barking out every sound bite from reading Internet forums with lout so much as having sat in a cockpit.
Pursue the quest! I went against quite a few to include my mother when I told her I was joining the Marines.
But like I said - I had options. You should too.
I won’t say that you don’t know what you dont know at 17.
i knew much earlier that I wanted to TRY aviation. I had many hurdles thrown in my way and persevered through them all.’you can do it. But here is the difference I see in us at 17. I had a Plan B and C. You do not it seems and tgat could be a great failure for you and your path. You almost sound like a troll barking out every sound bite from reading Internet forums with lout so much as having sat in a cockpit.
Pursue the quest! I went against quite a few to include my mother when I told her I was joining the Marines.
But like I said - I had options. You should too.
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