Leadership

Hi members,
Just a question for all of you, besides collecting models, anyone of you wants or hoped a career in aviation?
For me, I hoped to be a Singapore Airlines pilot in future.
For Singaporeans whom wants to be a pilot in future, I don't mind giving you some tips...

richie154

I think I still want to be an airline pilot, but I am not sure. I would like to be some sort of professional pilot someday.

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Private Multi Engine: 05/09/2008
The more things change, the more Mesa still sucks.

N. Eberhard

14 years with the FAA. Now I am with Lockheed Martin. Next stop could be with Clay Lacy at Boeing Field or ??.

B787Dreamliner

Now that would be a cool job, especially if you got to be a photographer for him....combining flying, and taking airliner pictures in flight, throw in the Swedish Bikini team and life don't get much more better than that!

goldy

My airline career has come and gone. I worked for NWA at SEA in the chief pilots office for much of my 12 years there. One of the most interesting and historic moments in my career was the night that DB Cooper hijacked the NWA 727. I was there for the entire event.

My aviation connection continues with my involvement in the diecast model business. It looks like we are about to have a grand opening of our new online store within the next two weeks.

And, I hope, one never can tell when dealing with both the USCIS and women who live in foreign countries, but I hope that my long time friend, who is an Aerflot purser, will finally make the move to the US. Her name has been on my mail box for 6 months and her US mail does deposit there but that is about as close as I have come to actually seeing her here. My idea is to have her remain with Aeroflot for a year so that we can do some free traveling through out the world. I need to actually fly on an IL-96, Tu154, Tu134, and whatever other Russki aircraft I can get myself into for free.

Goldy

continental

My experiences over Macho Grande pretty well nixed any future in aviation for me.

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Continental

Apply suction to the object of your choice, n00bs.

Gunship01

USAF Navigator 16 years.

The eyes were the deciding factor in getting to the front seat....or not in my case.

Interesting work nonethless.

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More Lufthansa and Virgin Atlantic 744s!!
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FLYFRONTIER

If you want a tip, the best one I can offer anyone who dreams of being a professional pilot one day is to NEVER GIVE UP!!!

You will be told by countless thousands along the way that you can't do it, it is a stupid dream, or you don't qualify. But in the end, for 90% of pilots out there, the deciding factor that put them in the cockpit of a commercial or military aircraft is that they had the intestinal fortitude to keep the dream alive while others gave up.

Study hard in school, especially math and science as a good background with these will help you understand aerodynamics and the science of instrument flying. Take good care of your body, so that you don't develop any medical problems that would prevent you from flying. 20/20 vision with correction is OK, but diabetes or other health issues are not.

The thing to remember is that it isn't going to be easy to get where you are wanting to go. Some have an easier time of it than others, but 90% struggle. If you go the military route, then the competition is fierce and you will have to dedicate many years of your life before finding yourself in an airliner. Plus you may be told to take life along the way. If you go the military route, expect to rack up amazing debt in order to get the education and flight training needed (about what you would pay for a masters degree) and then spend 2-5 years after school making poverty level wages as a flight instructor, air taxi pilot, 135 freight dog, and even your first year or two at the airline. During this time, all your buddies who didn't go the pilot route will be making good money and establishing themselves in their careers, while you are eating Top Ramen.

If you can keep yourself focused and on track, then you will eventually make it. And trust me, when you do, it's worth it

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N2272V

That's the TRULY amazing thing about commercial aviation, you have to spend all those years in aeronautical engineering, you would then fly passengers who's safety is dependent upon your flying skills, yet you will get paid less than an administrative assistant in a large corporation.

Garbage collectors in NYC make more money. Logic stood on it's head.

Carry on!

FlyNavy

Lets see, what do I want to do.... Oh ya,Fly Navy. HOORAH!!

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JFK'ER

I still want to own an airline.

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I blame Cuomo.

pilotman

aerobatic pilot, airshows or for fun. lets see, were did i put that winning lottery ticket

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N. Eberhard

Absolutely the quickest way to lose a billion dollars in less than a year.

The ironic thing is that United has lost more money than we can even conceive but I just booked free tickets to Hawaii on them.

STEVEJ

Stranger yet ....some Wall Street analyst said on the news the UAL loses were encouraging because the loses were not as bad as expected!

navimik

yeah, thats what we all say

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ANTHONY F DUVA JR

When I was a little kid, when 707s still ruled the skies, I wanted to be a pilot, but then I needed glasses and reality set in.

Designing planes would be nice, but the engineering is so incredibly complicated.

What I would like to do is design airline color schemes. I like those photo-realistic artist conceptions that Craig Hansen, Air Dar and Sentinel Chicken used to make.

(BTW I saw a real sentinel chicken on TV last night, it was a show about the west Nile virus in US.)

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FLYFRONTIER

And this sadly is the bull crap so many people believe and it convinces them to give up on their dreams. I got my engineering degree, I was told by the Air Force to pissoff, the Army told me I didn't do well enough in my officer training to get an eyesight waiver, so I commanded tanks for 9 years. But the dream to fly never left me and I never gave up. And the funny thing is, that my story is not unique in the cockpits of airliners or even military aircraft.

I'm not telling you this to toot my own horn, but rather prove to you that although the road is long and hard, it is possible. Heck, according to Jim McDonald, I am a moron and a retard and stuck on stupid . Yet I made it; so if I can do it, any of you can do it if you just never ever give up.

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Leadership

Go for optical sugeries.In Singapore, once you are accepted into the Air Force or Singapore Airlines, they will provide you with optical sugeries for free.

DavidMich

Aviation Maintenance here. I'm currently on the MD500 with the US Army, the rest is classified, sorry.

Before this, I fueled for 6 years, among such localities as SRQ, PIE, DEN, and MCO. You name it, I've put JET-A in it (excluding Concorde & anything Russian)

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