My flight career is over before it even started

[avbug]

If you think you're beaten. You are.

No need to expend any more energy proving it.

That career parachute never opened. No need to waste any valueable energy pulling the reserve ripcord. After all, the best you might hope to accomplish is that you might survive the plunge and realize how wrong you really were.

Can't be having that now, can we??

 

[Super80]

Geeze, I wish I had a $1 for every time I thought I was licked. Now quit yer whinin' and get back on the horse!

'80

 

[A Passenger]

Sorry I haven't been able to respond. I have been busy with situations IRL.


Thanks for the great advice. I will not give up on this thing, the last place where I want to end up is sitting in some cubicle, doing mindless corporate work for the rest of my life.

The Options:

1) Join the military. This sounds instersting, but I have no desire to get killed in Iraq or Afghanistan, so I don't think I will be enlisting.

2) I will be applying for the Spring semester at some colleges w/aviation programs. I want to stay in the Midwest, but I am willing to move anywhere in the country except Florida, Texas, California, Hawaii, or anywhere in the desert southwest.

3) I could move back home and work in the family business, and train at a local FBO. This would be a short-term move, until I could either get into a college or get my Commercial and CFI ratings and get a flying job.

 

[bobbysamd]

No, your flight career isn't over at all

2) I will be applying for the Spring semester at some colleges w/aviation programs. I want to stay in the Midwest, but I am willing to move anywhere in the country except Florida, Texas, California, Hawaii, or anywhere in the desert southwest.

3) I could move back home and work in the family business, and train at a local FBO. This would be a short-term move, until I could either get into a college or get my Commercial and CFI ratings and get a flying job.

Now, you're thinking smart, with one qualifier. Some excellent, affordable colleges with good flight programs, such as Cochise College in Arizona, are located in the southwest. Don't foreclose on good training opportunities just because they are where you don't want to be.

Otherwise, good luck with your plans.

 

[ak_pilot]

Dont give up. I originally thought I wanted to go to WMU, but instead decided to stay up here in Alaska (University of Alaska Anchorage). The cost is cheaper and a scholarship to cover tuition helps (not flying costs just the cost of classes). Im pretty sure that if Alaska has a program, almost every state has to have one at their universities. Good luck with your flying.


Josh

 

[FN FAL]

Sorry I haven't been able to respond. I have been busy with situations IRL.


Thanks for the great advice. I will not give up on this thing, the last place where I want to end up is sitting in some cubicle, doing mindless corporate work for the rest of my life.

The Options:

1) Join the military. This sounds instersting, but I have no desire to get killed in Iraq or Afghanistan, so I don't think I will be enlisting.

2) I will be applying for the Spring semester at some colleges w/aviation programs. I want to stay in the Midwest, but I am willing to move anywhere in the country except Florida, Texas, California, Hawaii, or anywhere in the desert southwest.

3) I could move back home and work in the family business, and train at a local FBO. This would be a short-term move, until I could either get into a college or get my Commercial and CFI ratings and get a flying job.

Yea, don't give up. When I was 17 years old going to boot camp at Great Lakes in the Navy...I told the detailers I wanted to be a Quartermaster...which in the navy has nothing to do with being a supply clerk...but in the Army it did.

Which is kind of funny, considering the Navy said they wouldn't let me be a Quatermaster, because I had too much on the ball. But the Army wouldn't take in me without the high school diploma. So it was kind of perplexing when I wound up working in the supply division at my first unit assignment in the Navy.

None the less, It all came together when I figured out our unit credo was, "there are more divers looking for pilots, than pilots looking for divers".

 

[Metro752]

Lewis University has a good program with connections at a few airlines and internships, etc.

2.0 GPA & like a 21 on the ACT.....oh and the massive amount of money it costs to go there.

 

[flyifrvfr]

Like someone said earlier, go to a community college and then apply to WMU. Believe me, they accepted my stupid A$$ if I suggest you go into their Aviation "couph" Management program

I just want to point out that couph is spelt encorrektly. It shudd be spelt cough.