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There are many reasons
for becoming a pilot. Maybe your reason for being a pilot is strictly for
pleasure. There are countless pilots who simply attained their licenses
for the shear pleasure of flying. Perhaps you would like your license in
order to sight-see. Maybe you want to fly your family or friends to a
nearby town for dinner, or take a trip to the coast to see the ocean and
play at the beach. There are different options for the pleasure flier,
from a Recreational Pilot Certificate to a Private Pilot Certificate. Maybe you own your own
business and want a way of getting to other cities and towns in your area.
Perhaps you have considered buying your own plane and using it to go to
meetings to further your business success. Are you the more
adventurous type? Do you go to airshows and long to be able to perform the
precision flying demonstrated in aerobatics? There are schools that train
pilots in this type of flying. You could be amazing crowds with your
barrel rolls and loops! Maybe you have longed
to fly for a career. Pilots are needed in many areas for many jobs. Some
of these occupations include cargo flying, mail carrying, rescue and
fire-fighting operations, flight instruction, sightseeing, aerial work
such as photography and oil pipeline inspections, wildlife monitoring, and
the traditional occupations everyone thinks of when they think of pilots:
airline transportation. After looking over the
reasons for being a pilot, you gotta ask yourself what reasons there could
possibly be for not being a pilot. Do you fear that you may be too old?
There are many pilots out there flying well into their 70's and 80's. Some
of these pilots still work in occupations such as flight instructing where
their experience is extremely valuable! I saw a man in his 70's
doing aerobatic flight! You don't need to be young to fly an airplane
anymore than you need to be young to drive a car. Do you look in the
cockpit of an airplane at all of the gauges and gadgets and think to
yourself, "That look's way to complicated for me to learn?" Well
you couldn't be further from the truth! Flying an airplane is NOT
complicated and almost anyone can learn how. When learning to fly you will
be taken step by step through every inch of the aircraft until you know
and understand each piece of it and each skill in controlling it. And it
doesn't take forever, either! Many people learn to fly an airplane in
under 60 hours! Do you fear the
"enormous cost" of flying? Although prices are different
depending on where you go and what type of flying you intend to do, just
getting your Private License can usually be under $8000.00. Think about
it. If your purpose is for pleasure think of the cost of that new boat you
were wanting to buy. You will probably pay quite a bit more than $8000.00.
Then you will have to maintain it and pay for any repairs and fuel as long
as you own it. Use that money to get
a pilot license! The money you save on the boat purchase and the
maintenance and upkeep could be used for aircraft rentals or even put away
to buy your own plane! Worried about how to
pay for flight school? There are many financing options available through
lenders and there are also schools that will finance you. There are even
schools that will allow you to pay as you go or make regular payments to
them for instruction. Why should you fly?
The real question is why shouldn't you! If this is something that you want
and dream of then go get it! |
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