How to become an airline pilot
02-16-2011 | 07:08 PM
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How to become an airline pilot
hi, i am wanting to become a airline pilot. i have no prior training. what are good colleges? i am looking at K-state at salina or embry-riddle. are there any other good colleges? thanks
02-17-2011 | 12:21 AM
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There are numerous threads on the subject. Airline pilot is one of the "glamor jobs" that people want to be. Actor, singer, pro ball player, pilot, maybe doctor / lawyer, president.
Like all high demand things, it's likely that few who want will ultimately succeed.
How old are you? Can you pass a 1st Class FAA medical ? Without the medical, you can't make it to first base.
Like all high demand things, it's likely that few who want will ultimately succeed.
How old are you? Can you pass a 1st Class FAA medical ? Without the medical, you can't make it to first base.
02-17-2011 | 07:26 AM
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Start Here:
http://thetruthabouttheprofession.weebly.com/
Then Go Here:
http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/fl...ilot-read.html
You have a lot of reading to do.
http://thetruthabouttheprofession.weebly.com/
Then Go Here:
http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/fl...ilot-read.html
You have a lot of reading to do.
02-17-2011 | 09:34 AM
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Start Here:
The Truth About the Profession - Home
Then Go Here:
http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/fl...ilot-read.html
You have a lot of reading to do.
The Truth About the Profession - Home
Then Go Here:
http://www.airlinepilotforums.com/fl...ilot-read.html
You have a lot of reading to do.
02-17-2011 | 02:36 PM
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Suppossedly you need to take flight lessons and go to college and blah blah blah its a bunch of nonsense.
To be an airline pilot all you need is confidence, a good uniform and lots of swagger.
Rent the movie "catch me if you can" and take notes
To be an airline pilot all you need is confidence, a good uniform and lots of swagger.
Rent the movie "catch me if you can" and take notes
02-27-2011 | 04:09 AM
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While "becoming an airline pilot" might be your goal, life sometimes leads you in a different direction in aviation. I'm almost 40 now and started flying 20 years ago. I flew the night freight, did the CFI stuff and then the first short recession with the Gulf war happened and I (personally) got into a catch 22 situation. Needed flight time (Multi) to get a job, but needed to fly to get that multi-time. Wound up after a few years off in the right seat of a corporate sabreliner. Then went 135 charter in a learjet. Then on to a fractional, laid-off. Now i've been a simulator/ground school instructor for the last 5 years and i'm burnt!! I do fly contract here and there but my point I guess is that it's all about the decisions you make early on that determines your future. At least you have the internet!
02-27-2011 | 04:31 AM
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Except all the other glamor jobs listed pay good. Being a pilot does not!
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