Life of an airline pilot?

Hello My dad is an airline pilot and I am 14 also and I have been living with this my whole life. The education part of it is not really a lot from what he tells me. It does not cost thousands of dollars to be a pilot, really school is the most expensive cost.

When you start out being a pilot, you are very junior to the rest of the other pilots so you DO in fact have to fly holidays. You can bid that off but just to let you know, you will probably have to fly them. If does affect family (first hand experience) but the good thing is that when you become a pilot and get married (if you do) and have kids (if you do) you can take them flying with you.

If the flight that you are flying does not have a lot of people on it, your family can fly for free. That's the good part.

It sounds like most of your questions were answered by other people, but the one thing I did not see is that the most inexpensive and quickest way to gain flight training and experience is the Air Force. Granted competition is stiff for being a pilot in the Air Force, but once accepted into flight school, you are paid to learn how to fly and you will rack up many flight hours being a Air Force pilot. Also, military experience help a lot when applying for civilian flight positions.

Air Force academy is the way to go, but you have to do really really good in school and get a recommendation from your senator. ROTC & OCS (Officer Candidate School) is the other option but both the academy and OCS are highly competitive. It is becoming more & more competitive to fly a actual airplane because the Air Force has been transitioning to pilot-less drones that are flown remotely from the ground (sort of like playing your Xbox or Playstation).

In fact the fastest growing Air Force base is just outside of Vegas, where pilots in small rooms control most (if not all) of the drones in Iraq and Afghanistan. The Air Force has said their priority in the future is to expand the pilot-less drone program and try to transition to as many pilot-less vehicles they can. Edit: I almost forgot, the Naval acadmey or Navy ROTC is another route for great pilot training.

The Air Force has bigger planes that are similar to commercial airliners but if you take can off and land (especially at night during bad weather) on a moving airstrip (aircraft carrier) then you can pretty much fly anywhere.

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