Whats the best way to become an airline pilot?

Whats the best way to become an airline pilot?
This has been kind of a dream job for me since i was a kid. However im not really sure on how to achieve it.

Flight Schools are the obvious place to look at, but theres more to that. Like paying for flight hours and such. Joining the air force was something i thought about too, and it seems like the most popular way to get around the flight hours problem. Still, i dont know whats next after that.

There are some other things to keep present... Like, i considered getting into an art school. (Having the chance of becoming an ilustrator is honestly what i want the most, but at the same time a very risky move). Would i be able to do so? or is it just too much to cover?
And then there's me wanting to live abroad, but its not that relevant now.

Ask questions so that i can specify more or clear things out if needed.

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go ask your guidance counselor

Get a 4 year degree. Pay your way to a commercial certificate and CFI and instruct or find another job until you hit 1500 hours for an ATP. Go into a flight school and discuss with them what you want to do. There is way too much to it to describe in a single post, but its really a straightforward process.

Get a A&P training and license,

You know you know art is created in school right? Youd be better off marketing your skills to people who have connections and save yourself the money.

*ISNT*

This is it and what I am doing now, have my PPL and insturment and am getting my commercial over summer. If you want to do it dude it is entierly doable. Just make sure you arent getting fucked cost wise by your flifht school, it will be expensive but some are just crazy on the pricing

The thing is... im talented and skilled but not skilled enough. Thats why i wanted to joing an art school.

Step 1: Have $10000-$12000.

So youre not good enough. You have any work or just tryna get a degree in something useless.

*Artwork?*

Need literally 5x that

I bet your job will be taken by robits in less than 20 years

Any good schools you can recommend?

Any good schools you can recommend?

Have you ever taken and psychadellic drugs?

Anything like Ecstasy, Acid, etc?

Cause if so, that sort of locks you out of the running altogether

Nope, im 100% clean

I was considering the same, when I was younger. Here is my summary. It's been a while, so it may me somewhat out-of-date.

> Sell your soul to Air Force for 5 years. Hope you get picked.
Nuf said.

> Work.
Getting a pilot license is expensive, and it is a life-style. But the good news is that 3-5 years you can be flying regional flights. And in 5+ years you can fly international.
It's all about accumulating hours.

The cheapest way is to get a job, any job, and pay your way till you get professional license. This will put you ~$30k in the hole, and won't allow you to fly passenger jets. But you'll be able to start doing actual paid work. Consider it an alternative to college degree.

Next step is to accumulate 250 hours by any means necessary, to get flight instructor license. Surprise surprise, unless you get a job flying, you'll need to rent a plane for this out of pocket.

Once you get instructor license, you can start working for a flight school, keep accumulating hours, and get paid for it.

Next step is to slowly pay your way through more and more advanced certifications (night flying, instruments flying, etc), concluded by airline pilot certification. For this you need about another $50k-$70k worth of training altogether, and 2.5k flown hours.

Congratulations, now you can fly jets. But nobody will hire you. At best you will be flying regional airlines, till you accumulate 5k-10k worth of hours. Major airlines won't even reply to you, before that.

Also, if you're in UK, flight certification is significantly more expensive. Make it ~140k GBP total.

tl;dr: $100k in the hole, and ~3 years later, you can be a junior airline pilot.

> Get lucky
Some Airlines offer 5 year contracts and direct entry program to get you to pilot within 2-3 years. But you're pretty much signing up for 5 years of working for substantially bellow-average salary, but with the prospect of your training being fully covered.

>Whats the best way to become an airline pilot?
at least $250,000 and 5-10 years of your life. It's pretty easy to get private license and relatively easy to get commercial license, however going ATP flying big planes is hard

I also wanted to be a pilot, but my vision is shit

Welp, this is kinda demoralizing. Of course hard work was expected, but in the end i though it was one of the most paid jobs.

It is well paid! But there is substantial cost associated with getting there. That's why most don't. And that's why there is now shortage of airline pilots.

You will be paying off your licenses as you go. You can't get a student loan for this. I.e. the flight instructor gets paid ~$100k gross a year. But it still means you're pretty much living off ~$25k net a year ($75k net - $50k certs.), till you get to a point where you are fully qualified.

Most jobs worth a damn are in high cost of living areas, so prepare to live as a poor college student for 2-3 years.

Alternatively, you can spread-out your licensing, and live "average" lifestyle for 5 years, but at that point you are missing out on 2 years of proper airline salary.

UND I've heard good things about, Farmingdale NY college, Embry Riddle is good traing but they will rape you for money (in going there now).

Also, this:
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I own and run a flight school, we charge 40k for 0 to CFI. Dont let those asshats RIP you off lol