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What's the best way to become a pilot as a career?

  • My son would like to become a pilot. He will be entering high school next year. Can anyone give me any information on what his best course would be to have the most opportunity to succeed in this career? Should he go to college? Air Force? College and Air Force ROTC then onto the Air Force? No college and find a flying school? etc. Also is there any type of situation where a teenager could work at an airport or even volunteer to get some experience with planes? Would that benefit him? Thank you for any help you can give us to guide him.

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    That is right, CAP and the armed forces are great ways to learn to fly (cost you almost nothing) and you get a lot of time building. I suggest he enroll in ROTC, I know people who got scholarships to USAF Academy by being in ROTC. I am a little over 17 and here is what I am doing: I intern at a flight school and get paid in flight hours and it rocks! I get to fly and be around the environment of aviation, I get to meet new people all the time. By doing this, you can save a TON on flight lessons. This is the most fun an rewarding thing for a new, young aviator. I wash aircrafts, update Garmin GPS databases, and other odd jobs around the local airport. It is totally worth it Your son will be building flight time and learning before he is formally enrolled in a flight program, he will finish faster and cheaper when he really starts. Make sure you go to a small airport, a local General aviation one, not Hartsfield, LAX, O'Hare, La Guardia, JFK etc. they will not do it. If he does not want to be in the Military, let him go through all his flight training at the school he volunteers out then have him go for his CFI (Flight instructor) rating when he's eligible. He is almost guaranteed to get hired by the school he volunteered at because the staff already knows him. Plus, as a CFI he gets paid for building time. Having him volunteer or work at a local airport is fun, educational, and rewarding. It is something that I most definitely recommend.

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Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University. My best friend from high school goes there. She's way smarter than me though lol. Maybe he should train to become a mechanic for jet engines and then go to school to become a pilot? That way he'll have a good foundation to work off of.

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talk to recruiters and see what they gotta say

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Hmmmmmm, Honestly, I am on the same track as your son, I'm 14 yrs old and I've been wanting to become a pilot since I was 8 years old. The first step to becoming a pilot is for him to get a pilot's medical certificate issued by an FAA certified Aviation Medical Examiner. He must pass the FAA pilot medical exam and he must have no history of epilepsy or heart transplant. He must be in perfect health with 20/20 vision. a) Save tons of money, enroll him in flight school one day b) The cheapest and the best way to become a pilot is to join the US Airforce. To become an airline pilot, he must be over 23 yrs old with an ATP license. There are 4 licenses he must have to succeed in this career- Student Pilot License Private Pilot License Commercial Pilot License Airline Transport Pilot License.... and an Instrument Rating, also a Certified Flight Instructor License. He should work as a flight instructor before joining an airline. Airlines look for pilots that have more than 1,500 flight hours of experience. To get all of the licenses, he must pass the FAA oral and written exams that are especially issued for the Private, Commercial, and Airline Transport Pilot licenses.

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Contact the Civil Air Patrol, they have some good programs as well. Air Force recruiting office can also be good to contact depending on what he wants to do down the road. In Canada we have a similar program for youths interested in aviation in line with the Jr ROTC program in the US, called Royal Canadian Air Cadets, where they can after a few years of being in the program can take ground school at no cost, and apply for a private pilot scholarship program and get their wings. There are a lot of options and I'm glad you know some of them off hand. It'd be best to contact each one, but first, sit down with your son and see what his top three or four interests are so when you phone around it'll save you and the operator some time in narrowing down what things your son can get enrolled in that will suit him the best.

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