Is there a better method becoming a pilot!!??

Question

I'm 15 yrs old from the U.S. and aspiring to be an Airline pilot

Method: (If it is even logical)

1. Finish High school with good grades

2. Go to any University and get a Major in anything (if there is a recommended course please advise)

3. At 23 yrs old or so go to the USAF and apply for OTS and then UPT

4. If successful, stay with USAF for 10 years

5. Get out of the air force and apply straight to the top "Major" Airlines (not the regional airlines)

^^^^^ is that a possible route...or is there a better route ?

Answer 1

You could join the ROTC program while you're in college. I met a young man a week ago at an EAA flyin who's hoping to become a helicopter pilot this way. If you do go the military route, and you want to fly commercial airliners afterward, I'd think that you should skip the fighter planes and fly the heavy transports. They would be more likely to handle like a 787 would.

You could also investigate one of the aeronautical universities, and see if they offer a program in becoming an airline pilot. I'd start with Embry-Riddle, but I know at least 3 other schools that may have a program that would help. I think that once you graduate, you'd start out probably as an instructor somewhere until you build time, perhaps teaching other students to fly at a local airport. Then you might move up to a local or regional carrier, where you fly small aircraft or a light twin, taking businessmen a few hundred miles and back again. You'll live out of a flight bag, work long hours, and have to be ready to go at almost any time. If you're lucky, you move up to cargo or transport planes, or maybe as the engineering officer for the major carriers. It'll take time and a lot of hard work, but it can be done.