to become a pilot how long do u have to go to college for?

Question

i am intersted in avation and i want to know a few ?....
-how much money dose a pilot make a year
-how long u have to go to college
-is it hard

Answer 1

You can become a pilot without a degree, however you'll never get a job. Nearly every airline in the country requires a 4 year degree.

Pilots make next to nothing for the first 10 years or so of their careers. I am an airline pilot and I make about 19k er year. In about 4 years that will start to increase significantly, but be prepared for some lean times.

It is hard. Its is very hard. You must learn to juggle a lot of time constraints. You'll have a lot to learn and it takes years to earn alll your ratings. For a lot of your time, you will not see any tangible progress. This is where most people give up and stop flying. Keep at it. You have to learn a lot about regulations, physics, mechanics, and a lot of other topics that are pretty diverse.

Its a rewarding feeling becoming a pilot, but just dont have any unrealistic expectations. It sucks being a professional pilot. the schedules suck and you dont make any money. you never see any of your friends, and even when you can you can't afford to go out with them. If you decide to become a pilot, you need to be willing to be a pilot and nothing else. Kind of like and airplane flying robot that just switches off when the flight is completed. You'll have no social life and you'll never see your family.

Answer 2

Depending where they work, pilots make from $30,000 - $150,000 and maybe even more a year.
You don't have to go to college, but there are some 4 year college programs that include aviation all the way up to ATP (Airline Transport Pilot)
If it's hard?? YES. First, it's expensive. If you plan on learning fast, it's about $60,000 all the way to airline pilot. And when you finish this, you can only be a co-pilot. To be a captain, it's after years of experience, and you can't just go all the way up to captain in a little while. Here are the hours of flight time you need:
40 hours = Private Pilot
150 hours = Instrument Rating
200 hours= Commercial Pilot
1,500 hours = ATP
Now, you also receive specific training in each aircraft you fly. When it's a jet, or heavier than 12,500 pounds, you get a type rating for each aircraft.
If you want a timeline to how long it will take to become a pro pilot, it depends on how much money you have. If you have the money, I'll say 2 years. If not (like me) It can be up to 10 to reach the airlines, or even more.
Aviation is awesome, I'm a private pilot in Guatemala, Central America. I really do it just for fun, but I try to be professional in everything I do.

Answer 3

The training does not take that long if you have the money. An accelerated course that will take you through all the training from private pilot, to commercial pilot, instrument, multi-engine and flight instructor ratings can be done in under a year if it is not associated with a degree program at a college or university (those take 2-4 years). After that, it takes several years to build the experience to attain an Airline Transport Pilot (ATP) certificate. Depending on where you go, training is going to cost you anywhere from $40k to $75k in the USA to make it through Commercial pilot single and multi-engine with instructor ratings (flight instructing is one of the few jobs you can get without much work experience). You'll start out making around $20k (even as co-pilot on a jet for a regional airline), which isn't much considering the investment, and you'll spend at least several years building the experience to be hired by a major airline. Currently, the "fast track" to a major airline, if everything goes right for you, takes 5 years after completing flight training IF you already have a college degree and IF you can get all the right kind of flying jobs to build experience in the mean time. Often it takes 10 years or more to get to a major airline (many pilots who want to never do) although a few of the "lucky" ones have made it in only 2-3 years out of flight training and college. I hope this is helpful.

Answer 4

you dont need to go to college, bu there isnt single airline that will allow you to fly a large jet without a 4 year degree.

Becomeing a pilot is hard, otherwise everybody would do it, the pay is apsolutely terrible when you start, most jobs start at $1500 a month, but pay better each year until you make about $125,000 a year.

OH, and you must be 17 to get your license, not 16. Thats whats listed in the FAR/AIM, which is aviation law.

Timewise, it can take from 1 year to 4 years depending on how good you are and what college you go to.
Colleges like western michigan and embry riddle are the most expensive, but have huge unemployment rates since they just dump their students after 250 hours, where as northwestern michigan, a community college, gives you about 1000-1200 for 20% of the cost ($50,000 compared to $250,000 for western michigan) because they allow you to work as an instructor after you recieve your instructor rating.

Answer 5

You only have to be 16 to get your pilot's license. You don't have to go to college. It cost a pretty penny for the lessons. The cost depends on alot of things. Plane rental, fuel, time with the instructor, equipment, charts and books, and medical supplies. Pluss you have to pay an examiner fee of about $200. Yes it is hard, according to my friend. You have to go to ground school for a while first and learn navigation, parts of the airplane, maneuvering, and radio procedures. Then you hit flight school where you actually get to fly. That's apparently not too hard, till you get to the taking off and landing part.

Answer 6

There are no free lunches, certainly not on a plane. becoming a pilot is hard work, tasking on the brain among other areas of your body. If you dont have aviation in your heart, leave it alone. If you do have it in your heart, you can be qualified on Big jets in as little as three to four years. Is it in your heart to be in aviation ?

Answer 7

OK your last question tells me a lot
Is it hard what does that matter if its what you want. Yes its hard there are 2-4 year colleges
Airlines start at about 45 k
If you want it do some research you will never make it if you aren't willing to put some effort in .

You could join the Air Force and learn that way.................and yes its HARD WORK

Answer 8

~To become a pilot, you don't have to go to college. You have to learn how to fly a plane. Unless, of course, you want to be a riverboat or harbor pilot, in which case you have to learn to drive the baot and to read the charts.

Answer 9

You don't need a minute of college.
You DO, however, have to be fluent in English.
Take your ground school at a municipal airport.
Go buy a used 152 & hire an instructor.
Turns out, that's the most cost-effective way.

Answer 10

Any job that pays alot of money is hard work. If you are even asking if it is hard pretty much shows that you want to walk through life without having to put in effort.