Become an airline pilot

29-01-06

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When i was a child my grandpa bring me evrywhere, i guess evryone's grandpa bring you evrywhere because as we know the favourite pastime of grandparents is to bring children while moms and dads are busy. I was only 7 years old and was a time when i used to live with my grandpa "Nonno Giovanni"; he brings me to lot of places around Naples , but my favourite place was the airport; I was going to be excite evry time i saw planes taking off or land, but when people ask me if i would like to jump in one of that i always say:" No, No, Please nevermind I am scared no i'll never jump in on a plane". One day, during a visit at the airport, we met a pilot ,old friend of Nonno Giovanni, capitain for Alitalia airlines who invite us for a fly around the gulf of Naples after that flight i never been scare about fly anymore and my passion for aircraft and fly and maybe travel as weel starts

The dream to became an airline pilot flow down 'cause in Italy the trainig for be a pilot is very expensive and is not affordable frome evrybody, in fact the only fly school for airline pilot , the Ailitalia Skymaster, cost about 120 000 € and all course size are limitaded, I tryed to join that school twice but my admssion rejected for these reason i started reserch outside italy and thanks to a great person and a great friend i found out Aerospace Aviation Flight School where i will learn to fly and i will be an airline pilot in 2 years for only 55000 A$ ( 32000 €)

But... what i have to do to become an airline pilot? At first i suggest to take a flight on a small aircraft like a Cessna or a Seaplane in to the chockpit only after this flight you will be really able to understand what you want from fly go to any Flight Club in the your nearest airport and ask for a flight it will be cost about 150 € per hour; after this you've to obtain a Commercial Pilot License ( CPL ) that's a certificate who allow people to fly for reward whit this license you will be able to work as a pilot, at Aerospace Aviation in Australia you get this license in about 1 year for a full commercial training is mandatory to get the IFR ( Instrument flight raiting) and the Multi engine license. You have to get, after the CPL, the Airline transport pilot certificate ( ATPL ) who will allow you to comand a crew and work for any airline; with the ATPL frozen ( ATPL witouth fly experence) you will be able to apply for an airline job, the last things is simple FLY more hour you will fly more money will you make, if you will be a pilot for any airline you've to get any abilitation for evry single aircraft that you wish to pilot; the carrieer will take a long or shor time to became o capitain but it's the same in evry carreer you choose to take it's up to you, but i am sure that if you belive in what you do and if you really like to fly, the wait won't be really hurts; The salary for pilots, according with information that evryone can get from the net, is between 23,000US$ and 250,000US$ per year, as you see is a really big range depending on a lots of things such as experince (hours flew), type of airline, type of aircraft and country where are you working.

But... how i have to be for be a pilot? The longtime stereotype of airline pilots is that they are male, fearless, perfectly fit, good at math, trained in the military, blessed with perfect vision, all paid like super senior 747 captains and only at work three days every other month. In the 1950s, some of these notions were accurate. The average professional pilot was a white man with a military background who didn't wear glasses. With a little career luck, he became a senior pilot flying the largest planes and, as such, made the big bucks; Today the story is changed in fact women's pilot are increased and half of professional pilots never flew in the military and as long as the vision is correctible to 10/10 ( 20/20 ) pilots can wear glasses if you wish to be a pilot and you think you'll be not able please rember this important things TO BE A PILOT YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE SUPERMAN...    I met, during my school and university carreer, a lot of peple who think that to be a civil aircraft pilot you've to be PERFECT, that's not true... You need only to be in heatlth ( no hearth or bloody disorders ) and fit enought to pass a medical examination twice a year.

Go to www.aerospaceaviation.com.au for further information about flight course and fees

 




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