PILOT

A history of psychedelic drug use

History doesn't matter as long as you can pass a drug test, haven't been 5150'd or been arrested. Even the arrest part is kinda debatable, violations don't matter, if you can prove you went on the straight and narrow after you're pretty much good.

Airlines are hurting so bad for pilots I know a few guys who had 2 DUI's and still got hired on at the regional level.

are you telling me zoomers aren't participating in societal dues?

...What?

so zoomers (17-25 year olds) arent getting useful knowledge from vocational schools therefore lack of experienced and or trained individuals for particular skilled labour? ie said above is also part of participation of society in a grander sense. Society needs pilots, and is in crippingly debt of it.

Not quite. There were a few programs at the high school level even by me that offered flight training. Also the main reason airlines are hurting is because of a new regulation put in place (generally) requiring 1500 hours of flight to obtain an ATP license. Until this point airlines at the regional level had super low pay and piss poor quality of life standards. Once people were hitting 1500 hours they were saying "why the fuck would I take a pay cut to work for a regional?" and stuck with their other flying gigs.

There's also mass retirements going on in conjunction with this because years ago the airlines had raised mandatory retirement up to 65 years old which staved off the retirements fora few years.

At the current rate the top 4-5 major airlines could literally hire every single regional pilot in the pipeline and still would be struggling to fill seats for the next 5-8 years.

Is it worth becoming one? What are the reasons to become one and what speaks against this job?

How frequently do people with special issuance medicals get FUCKED? Any idea?

Only get into flying if you know it's what you want to do. Otherwise this industry will kill you.

Pros:
It's the best view in the world.
Not a typical 9-5
Pay is great at the upper levels
Good bene's
Free travel eventually
Awesome people (most of em)
Great experience (traveling the country)

The pros mainly boil down to life style. If you know you want to fly for a living and are relatively unattached it's perfect. I know guys who when they have 3-4 days off between trips just travel around the country. Like taking a 3 day trip to LA between trips.

Cons:
Lifestyle is rough if it's not what you want.
It's expensive to get into
It takes years to get where you want to be (unless you fast track it and build time quickly)
pay isn't great at the bottom\
Away from home
Can lose your medical and your job for potentially small stuff.

I can't give the best advice/ foresight since I'm pretty easy going and the life style suites me.

Really depends on what the issue was to begin with. Don't lie, omit. Then don't get caught. Be really careful about going to the doctor. If you have a specific thing you want to ask about feel free and I'll answer to the best of my knowledge.

And personal question: Do you get laid with your female crew members or women in abroad places where you have your 2-3 day stay?

Hahaha I've got a GF and keep out of that type of stuff. There's plenty of people who do. 99% of the single pilots I know all abuse tinder on every over night they can. The place I was working at didn't really have many attractive flight attendants so it didn't really play out that way.

Some airlines (mostly majors) even go as far as putting the pilots and FA's in different hotels. Which I'm sure is probably a union thing at that level.

Also at the regional level the over nights are only typically 1 day/ night in a specific place. Sometimes you get longer over night and might get a day and a half.

prolactinoma is the reason probably, i have more than one medical (outside the us) and they're not SI despite giving all the same info, in the us they want annual bloodwork but don't even tell me what they want beyond prolactin levels (i think they want tsh)

This, requires a fuck ton of flight hours before you can get a real job as a pilot

That's a bit outside of my scope of knowledge. However there are professionals that are worth the money to talk to. The big thing would be to talk to a doctor/ AME before going and actually getting a flight physical done because if you go in blind and they pull your shit or want you to get a waiver it could take a long ass time and cost a lot of money. It'd be better to know what you're getting into first.

You can get low hour commercial gigs right now around the 500 hour mark. Your training should get you pretty close to if not to 250 hours (multi comm reqs).

If you want to fly 135 (charter) I believe it's 750 hours to fly VFR only 135 PIC with IMC being 1000ish? (haven't checked those regs in a while so idk if that info is still current).

ATP is 1500 hours for unrestricted but if you go to an approved flight school you can get it down to about 1250 or even 1000 depending on how many credits you got. Military guys only need 750 hours. I know a few heli guys that went straight to the airlines with 0 fixed wing time. some airlines even cover the cost of the transition program.

already done all that and the answers I got were disappointingly vague unfortunately

I my self am an Aircraft Mechanic for a quite famous european Air Line. But i am tired of wheel changes and Lubing the Gear mechanism. Any advice before joining the flight academy?

Yeah that's typical. Not sure if it's cool to link websites here but : aeromedicaldoc.com/

He's the guy to go to. Period. End of story. Pay what he asks and don't waste his time and he will help you through better than any one else in the industry can.

Good luck have fun! lol. Not sure how training goes in EU but you guys move up the ranks a lot quicker. Plus being an AP for an airline already means you have a huge leg up on systems knowledge. Study. Study. Study some more. Take a break. Study.

Being 1 step ahead on studying and flying is key.

Other than that your best bet is to ask people who currently fly for the airline. I can only speak on US stuff from experience.

I was told to give this guy a look actually. thx bb

Guess they should pay more then. Fuck being an airborne bus driver.

They do now. As well as offering 20,000+ sign on bonuses. It's getting better but that doesn't mean it's great compared to what it should be.

Yeah he's the man. I've never used him but know some people who have and while the wait takes a while (2-3) months it's worth it if you could be risking a career.

Nonsense. You can get your private vfr pilots license for 5k and that is flying hours included. Twin ifr license total costs maybe 25k-30k. At that point you can find work as a co pilot and get paid to stack flight hours you need and paid to train on large jets. Becoming a pilot is easy if you are above 100iq. Modern aircraft fly themselves literally in some cases.

Source: work with pilots all day long

Like other anons said there is a pilot shortage looming, so look forward to hoards of retarded south east asian crowding into north American aviation and bringing safety standards down. As always instead of training more professional experts they will pencil whip third world idiots and degrade an institution.