If you want someone to tell you what you want to hear, you have a problem.
I mean, there' s nothing wrong with doing groundschool and having a PPL.
You should think twice though before heading into IR, CPL, ME.
As a 39 year old time is not on your side.
The market is not on your side either.
-1 - 1 = -2 not 0 or positive.
Madness? It' s your money, not mine.
I am perfectly happy with my decision of stopping training infedinitely.
I discovered that aviation is not only about flying as a pilot.
Pilots are the ones that the passengers get to see, but there' s a whole other bunch in the backstage running the show. It is so interesting to realise that piloting may be one of the easier jobs related to operating aircraft.
Hell, take-off, autopilot on, monitor autopilot, approach, autopilot off, land, park. Take the credit for the flight.
Just think of mechanics who have to find the source of a fuel leak outside in snowstorms and rain or ground crew that sometimes wish they could duplicate themselves to cope with the workload to keep airplanes flying on time. Or even ATC who handle dozens of moving dots on a screen, each representing hundreds of souls.
Every job has positives and negatives but if you love aviation, and you find that flying is a difficult option, then there could be a day where you start thinking that there may be more to it than just flying.
Last edited by fly_antonov; 1st Mar 2010 at 16:30.