will i make it ?

Question

i return to high school after leaving it for some years and i wish my career as airline pilot. i am now still under study and iam over eighteen . so please advise me on how to be good at this.

Answer 1

Graduate high school with the best grades possible, consider going to a local airport and asking about getting your private pilots licensce, youll have it real soon maybe up to a year, it cost around 7 thousand, to reciece your private pilots certificate you must have 40+ hours of flying time, that includes instruction and practice in cross country flying. instruction in spin recovery, pass written and flight tests and have a third class medical certificate (40-50 $ to obtain) but to obtain that you also need to have a student pilot certificate and recreational pilots certificate and private pilot.
after you finish student pilot, recreational pilot and private pilot and recieve certificates for all of them then
commercial pilot-age 18 and have second class medical certificate(100$) 250+ hours of flying time (that is the least, you should fly way more be4 actually applying for a job maybe 900+ hours of flight time to get paid more ) pass written and flight tests.

but the most important thing is to get a 4 year degree in college (or more if you want) or you have the option to enter the airforce then you dont pay anything at all and you get payed way more when its time for hiring , and you can pilot the big planes 747 777 A380 etc.


good luck

Answer 2

You have a good chance of becoming an airline pilot. I wouldn't expect to fly for United or Delta right away. You have a great chance of flying for a regional airline, then you might be able to move up to the big birds. Once again Joe is wrong, the airlines rehired their furloughed pilots, and regional airlines are hiring pilots left and right. I would get a college degree if you want to fly for a major airlines such as United. My advice to you is get all your ratings and the go and fill out applications for every regional airline. One of them will hire you. Get about 2,000-3,000 hours flying for them then go to the major airlines and fill out applications. By now you should have enough hours and experience that major airlines will look at you seriously. Good Luck.

Answer 3

Well you need to pass high school first. Than you need at least $40,000 to get all your licenses and ratings to become a airline pilot, than you have to build some time, than you have to fly for a regional airline or some other flying job that does not require alot of experience. It might be hard getting a job with out a two year or 4 year college degree so I recommend while learning for fly you get at least your 2 year degree. But unless you have a 4 year college degree it will be very hard to get a job flying with a large airline later on in your career.
Dont forget you also have to be in good physical and mental health and have a clean criminal history the past 10 years.

Answer 4

Joe is not correct on this one. The airlines have recalled all of their furloughed pilots and are scrambling to hire new pilots. At the regionals, they are so short of pilots that flights are being canceled daily.

So study hard and you will be able to become a pilot. For the regionals you do not need a college degree but you would be more competitive with one. Doesn't matter in what but just so you have that piece of paper.

Good luck.

Answer 5

If I can do it anybody can. I never got further than high school myself and I make more than most lawyers doing what I love. Don't ever let anybody tell you that you "probably won't make it". Whether or not you make it is completely in your hands. Good luck.

By the way, you don't need forty grand either. I joined the army at eighteen and they taught me everything I needed to learn to get going. Never have paid a dime for any of my training.

Answer 6

Chances are pretty good you won't become an airline pilot. Things aren't going so hot for most airlines and they are laying off their experienced pilots left and right. To even be considered you'd have to have a college degree and 800-1000 hours of solo flying experience.