I want to become an Airline Pilot?

Question

I want to be an airline pilot, I don't know how or what classes i should be taking in high school. How do i get to be a commercial airline pilot? what do i do? what should i plan ahead? all those stuff, if theres a experienced pilot please post it here.

Answer 1

don't Masturbate you could go blind you have to have good eyes to be a pilot

Answer 2

Well first start looking at colleges, a regional airline may only require 2 years while a major will look for 4. As for as majors go you can major in anything you want, a lot of pilots major in business because pilot jobs sometimes fall through and it’s nice to have something to fall back on. I’ll talk about college later though.
To become an airline pilot you need to get several licensees, the first is a private pilots license. It takes 40 hours and you learn the basics, like most licensees it requires a written and an actual test with an instructor. With a private pilots license of PPL you cannot fly in bad weather, i.e. in clouds, poor visibility. Next you must get an instrument rating so you can fly in all weather (except thunderstorms) After you have logged 250 hours you have to get you commercial pilots license. Now you can fly for money! It also wouldn’t hurt to pick up a multi-engine rating. So now you may have about 300 hours or so, you’ll need about 900 or 1,000 for a regional airline. So to built hours you have to find a job, what most people do is become flight instructors, which will require yet another rating. Once you are near 800, 900 or 1,000 hours start looking for regional airlines like ASA, Continental Express, America West Express and so on. After a few years with them you can move up to a major airline.

About college again. There are schools like Embry-Riddle, North Dakota and University of Nebraska at Omaha, where they have professional flight majors. You take aviation courses and your freshman year you get your private, sophomore instrument, junior commercial and senior flight instructor. It’s a great way to train but you if you can’t get a flying job you won’t have anything to fall back on. There are other schools that train you in a short amount of time and cost a lot, so if you have the money you can look into those.

A pilot told me good classes to take in high school are speech and writing classes, so do those and other required courses your school makes you do. Study hard in all your classes to get good grades. As for math, pilots pretty much use simple math, buuut schools will make you take a few classes, for example UNO makes you take pre calc and calc.

Some more tips: Buy Flight Simulator 2004 or Flight SimulatorX. You can learn the basics from them and if you are looking for a challenge there are add ons for those that will take a plane like a Boeing 737 and simulate every switch in it, I’m not kidding you flight simulator is as real as it gets, it’s not a game but training software. Read aviation books, like private pilot manuals, there is a great book called professional pilot career guide, all these you can get at boarders or barnes and noble. And study meteorology too, that is important.
Good luck!

Answer 3

You should study aeronautical engineering or meteorology.
But note: nearly every single commercial airline pilot in the world is a former military pilot for their own country. It's darn near a prerequisite, and the military gives very good training. BUT -- you need to go into the military as an officer (which means you need to either attend a military academy or already have a college degree), and you need to get guaranteed when you go in that you'll get pilot training and duty. You have to have very good eyesight, be in outstanding physical health and shape, etc. Talk to a military recruiter and find out what you'll need to do to get guaranteed pilot training, and see if you can qualify. Good luck!

Answer 4

1) I am a amatuer pilot and have looked into this in some detail.

2) Get a subscription to plane and pilot magazine, they often give good advise in this area in articles.

3) Get an undergraduate degree, most air carriers require this.

4) Embry Riddle is the top school for ATP's. This stands for Airline Transport Pilot, a step beqyond commercial pilot. Those folks flying you and others around the skies in the big jets, all ATP's. Embry Riddle can get you your four year degree, and ATP with type rating in jets.

5) If you can not afford this or do not want to invest this much. Get your four year degree, stay completely out of trouble ( any drug or imature behavior/arrest record will get you firmly in the back of the line,perhaps put your goal out of reach). Also, you will need to earn and maintain a class one medical, so get in shape and stay in shape.

6) Be prepared to be a certified flight instructor with an instrument rating for some period of time. You may get lucky and avoid this, but prepare yourself for this step just in case, 1-3 years of paying your dues by teaching others to fly while employed at a flight school

7) To those who say most ATP's are military trained, not true today. In fact, get plane and pilot and you will see perhaps twenty quality schools with direct entrance into the right seat ( co-pilot) after graduation. You may start with a fast turbo-prop or get into a jet. Private jets and corporate jets are fine as well, as are large freighters like fed-ex.

8) The top things airlines look for are maturity/stability, good decision making skills, the ability to be predictable and follow protocol/routine, and lastly a technical bent. They expect and demand that you are a good pilot, but your pilot training should take care of this. As a ATP you will have the lives of hundreds of folks in your hands on a daily basis, not to mention being put in charge of a machine costing somewhere between $30 and $130 million dollars. This takes dedication, stability and genuine maturity.The people who died recently when the CJ ran out of runway, the pilot lined up on the wrong runway, died needlessly. The rules and protocols state you read those big numbers at the end of the runway and confirm the information with the heading on your compass. They match with your take off clearance you go. It does not, you stay put and figure it out. The Pilot made an eror. the error cost a bunch of people their lives. .ATP is a big, big responsibility, and I hope you make it to your goal.

Good luck, great career.....

Answer 5

No, no longer someone can grow to be an airline pilot. Some humans don't seem to be medically have compatibility. Some shouldn't have the intelligence or correct schooling. nonetheless others shouldn't have the coordination or judgement required. Many easily shouldn't have the huge amount of money it takes, or the persistence to undergo years of flying small plane for low pay to be able to reap a aggressive quantity of revel in. All that stated, it's manageable by way of the usual individual. You begin by way of fitting a individual pilot, which will also be performed at someone of over 100 airports within the UK

Answer 6

Take flying lessons
Join the Civil Air Patrol
Take Math, Trig, Algebra, Physics, Chemistry
Look for an Aeronautical College
Dont pass up a military option to learn

Answer 7

I'll just give you a basic understanding

1. Be good at Physics
2. Know at least basic math (though the more you know, the better)
3. Study meterology
4. I don't know what this is called but you have to be good at understanding climates. Pilots actually have to be a weather man and interpret what the weather may be, you can't always trust the weather reporter.

Oh and just another tip, be able to speak loud and clear.

Answer 8

The FAA's web site has information on how to become a pilot. http://www.faa.gov/pilots/become/student_cert/.

I strongly recommend that you make an appointment to meet with an FAA Operations Inspector to talk about your career goals. He or she can give you information on how to get started, which school courses can help you, and other good information. Inspectors work at Flight Standards District Offices (FSDO) and it is part of their job to provide this information to persons interested in aviation careers. You can locate your nearest FSDO at http://www.faa.gov/about/office_org/field_offices/fsdo/.

Answer 9

Don't you have a high school couseler? Why an Air Line Pilot? Work hoildays and weekends, away from family. Your just a glorified truck driver.

Answer 10

most airline pilots have a military background of some sort (navy or air force)

Answer 11

Be prepared to put your head down and really study to pass the exams.