I want to become a pilot!

Ok guys so im thinking on leaving college after this year and going my PPL. I was just wondering what aircraft i would be aloud to fly with a PPL and also would i get strips on a suit etc or is that only for jet liners that you get that sort of thing?

Any single engine aircraft that weighs less than 12,500 LBS! Though with an easy conversion the sky is the limit!

Once you receive your CPL and start working, you might be required to add the strips to your shirt!

Most pilots don't really care about the strips. All they want to do is fly!


Regards,
ComPilots

cpl? does that mean civil pilots licence?

If so how much does that cost to do?

Leaving college as in you're done with it? Or leaving it as in you're not completing it?

The airline industry is a really competative field, so if you're planning on leaving school just to do that it might be a problem. PPL is just step one, you also need to get your Instrument rating, twin engine rating, commercial pilots license, (and the list goes on...). Before an airline even looks at you you'll usually need 1000s of flight ours, even if you're only applying at the regional airline level. There will be tons of people with military background, from flight schools, and many other places all competing for the same job you are. Not to mention if you are hired, you usually pay somewhere around $14k just to get type-rated on an aircraft, and end up with some really low pay to start with!

Granted anything is really worth flying . But at least get a degree under your belt so that you can work somewhere part - time for the years it'll take you to get the experience you need. I'll search UVA's forums and try and find the pilots stories around there, because there are tons of them! Most of them either had military background and got in back when the airline industry was still booming, or have been working for the last 10 years at getting a position and finally have succeeded!

If you're determined though, can't wait to see you behind a yoke!

Read above, good advice. I am only posting to say this:

Do not leave college!

Im based in the UK, so i could leve college with my HNC and go back and do my HND anytime. The other reason i would concider leavign college is to get a part time job and do my training along side it.

My plan was to take out a bank loan and do my PPL,

If you live in the UK I take it you have AS and A levels? To become an airline pilot, it is a very good idea to have a degree, as it shows to airlines that you can be dedicated to something and can stick at it. If you don't want to do a degree then it will be more competitive but you can still do it on A levels providing you did reasonably well.

Hi their Jolegg,

Im based in Scotland so we have things like Standard Grades and Highers. I have 8 Standard Grades and at the end of this year my HNC in business.

Aviation carreers,

A good buddy of my brother in law's just got hired by American Eagle which all here will know is the regional carrier operated by AMR/ American Airlines. He is the 1st officer on an ATR. He just got hired a month or so ago and is flying out of Dallas Ft. Worth. This hire represents his first professional job flying. -He is 32 yrs. old. The point is that he never gave up his dream to fly.

I had heard for years that he was still somewhere 'mired' in the process of learning and financing he education in starts and fits and sort of dismissed it as a folly. I was wrong as now he is hired. It would not suprise me if he wound up flying in the right seat of an MD-88 or for A.A. in a couple years.

I suggest finishing college. If there are money problems then attack that problem before 'jumping ship' or skipping steps to get where you want to go.

--Above advise meant to be suggestive only. Follow you best inclinations and good luck.

Um...stripes...no. You'd probably be laughed at, being that you can only fly a single engine prop thing...Keep at it though, and you'l earn your stripes

i am a pilot,
you will love it.

If you are a pilot in real life why is so important to you to get a virtual rank here in flyaway You real rank isnt enough
Change your nickname to General Littleak100

Im not a real life pilot, im just thinking on doing some licences.

I wasnt talking about you dear AJWatson. Sorry for the misunderstanding.

Ok first of Little is for my 4 month old child who is named after me. 100 is for flight 100 and flight 100 was the first flight that i ever flew for Delta Airlines. As for my virtual rank here....i dont know its not important. My real rank isnt enough lol jk.