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Old 2nd Sep 2006, 11:52
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Stratman
 
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Wingbar, been reading your posts and I understand your feelings.Aviation is a dubious industry at the best of times, I think you have made a sensible choice in working in your former industry during the week and teaching flying at weekends, that is a good balance. Be under no illusion about flying commercially it will in no way resemble any glamourous notions that are spread around, it is hard, stressful unhealthy and depending on your company quite insecure , just like many other careers today. What you will not find under this particular forums heading that many pilots are totally sick of it as a full time job and they move into positions where they can fly less and have more of a life outside of aviation. Naturally you want to get a job flying a larger machine, we all did, and when you have spent a large sum of money on training you want to see some justification.Once you have some regular money coming in during the week working far more civilised hours than you will find in this game, no doubt you will feel better and get more of a perspective on things, keep the instrucing up as well, truthfully its a lot more challenging than operating a modern airliner, you never know you might wind up doing some tailwheel training on a moth or a stearman, now we are talking flying not just operating in an airline job.
Keep your chin up, you will find what you`re looking for soon enough.

Regards Stratman.
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