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Flying isn’t for everyone.\u00a0 You’ll spend lots of nights away from home. You’ll have to put up with security people everywhere you go.\u00a0 You’ll be a pro at packing and sleeping in hotels.\u00a0 You have to deal with contract negotiations every few years.\u00a0 You’re responsible for just about everything, whether you like it or not.\u00a0 Airlines go in and out of business and getting and keeping a good job is simply a matter of luck, not anything to do with your skill.\u00a0 It’s hard to eat, sleep and exercise properly.\u00a0 You have to like sitting a lot.\u00a0 If you fly props for any considerable length of time, you’ll probably have some hearing loss.\u00a0 Many years starting out, you won’t make much money (it took me 10 years to break $50,000 in a calendar year), in fact you’ll probably qualify for food stamps for several of them.\u00a0 Every now and then (though it hasn’t been often for me), you’ll have to fly with someone you really don’t like.\u00a0 If you’re in the business long enough, you’ll know someone who died flying and have lots of second thoughts about continuing your career.\u00a0 You’ll wind up in situations you didn’t intend to get into and have to accept circumstances that are sometimes less than ideal.\u00a0 You might even have days when it seems that everyone around you is trying to kill you (those are most often your students when you’re a flight instructor \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

So why does anyone fly?\u00a0 Probably the #1 reason (and some pilots wouldn’t admit it) is passion.\u00a0 For me, that’s the icing on the cake (I have other reasons for flying).\u00a0 But some people live for those special moments that only aviators get to experience.\u00a0 The window seat view of the Northern Lights, the successful approach down to minimums, cruising along inches above the clouds, being able to see a whole state in one eyeful (a bigger one, like Ohio, or coast to coast over Florida), watching the Space Shuttle launch from the air, seeing the ‘St. Elmo’s Fire’ on the windscreen, standing straight up in the cowling of an engine and realizing just how big that airplane is, a perfect view of a perfect neverending sunset, cruising down the river at low altitude, flying VFR in a small airplane and enjoying the view in slow
\nmotion.\u00a0 There are lots of stories I won’t tell too.\u00a0 You’d just have to experience them to believe them.<\/p>\n

Intro<\/a> – Document history, purpose, and introduction
\nHistory<\/a> – How I got started – the story before the story
\nComair Aviation Academy<\/a> – Details about my time as a student and instructor at Comair Aviation Academy, now Delta Connection Academy
\nComair Airlines<\/a> – Information about flying for Comair Airlines
\nWorld Airways<\/a> – Information about flying for World Airways (Updated May 27th, 2014)
\nNippon Cargo Airlines<\/a> – Information about flying for Nippon Cargo Airlines
\nConclusion<\/a> – A wrap up of the whole story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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