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 Jan 26 2009, 06:16 PM
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I am not nearly as qualified to answer your question as some of the other guys here are, but I would definitely without a doubt get a degree in something else, and get your licenses/ratings separately. This has been discussed in many threads here, but basically if somewhere down the line you fail a ride or something happens medically with you, you're screwed unless you have a degree in something else.
But if it's your passion, by all means get the licenses whenever you can. I personally have come to the self-realization lately that flying as a career isn't for me, so instead of pursuing an airline job, I'm studying aerospace engineering and flying on the side. Whatever you do, good luck! You'll enjoy it.
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Jan 28 2009, 04:34 AM
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Hey there, its a great question, but also a sad one, that it needs to be asked,
Ever get the feeling you were born to do something? Doctors, they're born to be them, Pilots they dreamed to become one, I think you should do what you think you were born to do, if that is to become a pilot, Let no one here make there opinion so valid that your views are changed.
If you wanted to be a pilot and you love aviation, than become one. It is easy? if it was everyone would be doing it, is it easier when you love something? of course you find yourself staying up hours learning and revising new systems and also the systems we sometimes forget.
Flying is amazing. It depends how much you love it. There is different levels of love in aviation, the love you choose when you take your friends and family flying on a nice day, flying with your friends on a weekends or holidays for lunch, the enjoyment of making it to a different airport.
A stronger love would be to fly into an airport in weather that is not such 'a nice day' where your challenged to plan correctly, and accurately, making it from where you departed, to a destination you planned while safely on the ground at home or the airport, and popping out of the clouds of days where most would be wraped up in a blanket with hot coco looking outside there living room window. The gratification you get when you pop out of the cloud at minimums and see the runway right out in front of you, the love you get when you get the shake, rattle and roll knocked out of you while flying through some not sooo smooth air, maneuvering around or even skillfully through it, finding you made it safely to the intended airport.
A stronger love would finding yourself amazed that what training you put yourself through, got people you've never even met to their desination safely in weather conditions... of all sorts, be it VFR on lovely blue sky days where the wind are more calm that you could imagine or the times when the people sitting behind you, have their utmost trust in you and in your training and.... in your love of aviation... for spending the time learning what you needed to learn to be sitting up there in front of everyone else... the love you find when your away from home for a few days at a time, finding yourself seeing new destinations around the world that you live in......and getting paid to do it !!!
Not to mention if you become a flight instructor and that same dream you had when you were young, now, becoming a tool to help those who once dreamed like you, helpling them achieve theres.
Flying is amazing, the econemy is though, we all know that....for now .... this is the perfect time to start learning and training. A degree in something other than aviation is great plus and a smart one, who says you only need one degree though? Aviation Science? Forensic Science, the choice is yours, there are many.........either one you choose, should not affect your ability to get hired as an airline pilot one day, if it does, than it's prboably not an airline you'd want to work with anyway...
Do what you were born to do, and stick with your dream...
(I need tissue) hahah
Best of luck.
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Feb 21 2009, 06:13 PM
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Hey FJ - I was actually very surprised with that quote, I was expecting much more for the Price Policy I was after.
I did however request a 20 year term, Im not sure if I'm locked into a contract for 20 years at that price quote range, Im unsure how life insurance policies really work, I've just been looking into it the last couple weeks, so when I get time I'll have to do some good research into what is hot and what's not.
I did realise however, that a normal life insurance company wouldn't insure me for the profession I'm in, I had to go through a special / private company dealing with area's of high life threat (I Guess..)
Everyone: Enjoy your weekend.
CFI checkride next week, Ugh, nerves are rattled!
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 Mar 23 2009, 09:16 AM
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QUOTE(BMeister @ Feb 22 2009, 12:13 AM) [snapback]130205[/snapback] Hey FJ - I was actually very surprised with that quote, I was expecting much more for the Price Policy I was after.
I did however request a 20 year term, Im not sure if I'm locked into a contract for 20 years at that price quote range, Im unsure how life insurance policies really work, I've just been looking into it the last couple weeks, so when I get time I'll have to do some good research into what is hot and what's not.
I did realise however, that a normal life insurance company wouldn't insure me for the profession I'm in, I had to go through a special / private company dealing with area's of high life threat (I Guess..)
Everyone: Enjoy your weekend.
CFI checkride next week, Ugh, nerves are rattled! So? What happened to the CFI checkride. Did you pass or did you stuff it? Or did I miss the news somewhere else on the forum, things here.. . . 350.
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Mar 23 2009, 11:55 AM
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QUOTE(Fast Jet @ Mar 23 2009, 02:16 PM) [snapback]130546[/snapback] So? What happened to the CFI checkride. Did you pass or did you stuff it?
Or did I miss the news somewhere else on the forum, things here.. . . 350. Hi there, thanks for asking!!!! Well........... Apparently I passed the 6 hours of oral !! which was hard, and being nervous made things that all the more harder!! But I received a letter of discontinuence, due to the weather being so bad to take the flight portion of the checkride. Just to get into the airport in the morning I had to fly an approach down to minimums just to get in. weather didn't really get any better as the day progressed. I've been rescheduled for another 4 weeks down the road. so we'll see what happens!! thanks for asking!
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