Airline Pilot. Net

If you are dreaming to be an airline pilot, making your command from the cockpit of a modern B747 or A380, then you are not alone. Thousands others are hoping and planning to airlines pilots and the majority will not be successful. The competitions is just too great and the opportunities is not many.

Before you pack up your suit case to the nearest ground training school and pay a bomb for the coarse, there are a few thing that you need to know about the career of a pilot.

1. It does take time to move up the ladder. When join an airline, you will be a junior pilot. There may be thousand of senior pilot who joined before your. It will take many good years before you can get the chance to be in the left hand seat. If ever you will be promoted to be a captain, it will always be starting from the smallest aircraft. There are a good number of pilots who will retire at 65 year as a first officer. Not that they are not so good, by their time were not up yet.

2. They life of pilot revolves around seniority, a predetermined schedules, big pay packets and layoffs. The airline markets is cyclic, during the low time, the retrenchment may come through and rehiring during good time. Some part of the world, like the asia pacific regions, the airlines are growing and the chance for promotion can be earlier.

3. The path to the job in a major airline may be through smaller airline. You may start as a first officer at a regional (commuter) airline, then upgrading to captain at the same regional. When you had accumulated enough hours as pilot in command (PIC), you may apply to an international airline as FO.

With hard work, and continuous look out at the job market, the opportunity will come. Do consider the long term position rather the the short time cash benefits.