Rominato From United States of America, joined Nov 1999, 268 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (11 years 9 months 3 weeks 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 1774 times:
Jump in with both feet. Don't waste time. Get goin immediately.
Delta777-XXX From United States of America, joined Jun 2000, 1017 posts, RR: 8 Reply 2, posted (11 years 9 months 3 weeks 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 1770 times:
Join the club!
I would contact a local CFI and go ahead and get started. It may be a little late to make it to the major airlines, but I'm sure you could get on with someone.
PanAm747 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 4242 posts, RR: 10 Reply 5, posted (11 years 9 months 3 weeks 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 1752 times:
XFSUgimpLB41X From United States of America, joined Aug 2000, 3952 posts, RR: 36 Reply 6, posted (11 years 9 months 3 weeks 3 days 10 hours ago) and read 1742 times:
If youve got the cash, hit it going full speed.. go to someplace like ATP or flight safety academy like PanAm747 reccomended. Time is of the essence for you.
Gocaps16 From Japan, joined Jan 2000, 4298 posts, RR: 23 Reply 7, posted (11 years 9 months 3 weeks 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 1727 times:
Go ahead and use your life savings to pay for your training. Of course, you'll go broke, more student pilots do go broke. But if you make it to the airlines, all that money and training is well, worth it. You'll eventually wll get your money back as a majr airline captain. They still get great money.
BHopsde From , joined Dec 1969, posts, RR: Reply 8, posted (11 years 9 months 3 weeks 3 days 8 hours ago) and read 1722 times:
Well, 29 is too old for almost everything in Germany! The U.S. is good about not discriminating on age in many things , but not everything...to be realistic, but better so than Germany.
Delta737 From United States of America, joined Jun 1999, 516 posts, RR: 11 Reply 9, posted (11 years 9 months 3 weeks 3 days 5 hours ago) and read 1724 times:
I hear the question about 30 times a day in email from my website.
The answer is...
29 is not too old
29 is not too old
29 is not too old
29 is not too old
29 is not too old...
(repeat if necessary)
Quite a few (most in some cases, maybe?) people start a little later in their early to mid 30's pursuing flight training towards an aviation career for various reasons:
1. The currrent job they have pretty much sucks.
2. They can't get rid of the "flying bug"
3. They finally saved enough money to finance training
etc etc.
But one thing I tell everyone is that the road isn't easy, it's extremely cyclical (UAL and DAL stopped hiring and AMR is retiring 54 aircraft) so be ready for the "ups and downs".
I graduated college in 1993 in a market that unless you had 4,000 hours and an Apollo Moon Walk, a regional airline wouldn't dream of letting you even vacuum their rusty Metroliner. Currently, at this time, you can almost roll out of bed and fall into a regional jet job.
If you're pursuing this career for money alone, you also run the risk of being disappointed. Keep in mind that for every top-three airlines 777-captain at $300k+ per year, there are probably 10 737 captains making $70k/year, probably 40 RJ captains making less than $50k/year, 100 "freight dogs" flying Navajos at $30k/year and probably 200 CFI's making $20k/year.
You have to stay incredibly "hungry". Out of the people who I shared a floor with in the dorms at ERAU, of 20 air science students, probably 1/2 of those graduated and of those 1/2, probably 1/2 of those are flying jets, 13 years later.
I'm afraid I sound resoundingly negative, but I want everyone to have a full understanding that pursuing an aviation career is serious business.
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