Got my CPL+IR working and saving from 1992 to 2002 and started flying in 2004 and I was hired each year only for the few months in summer, not always as pilot, till 2009 when I found my first permanent job on a hems twin as first officer when I was 42. Now I'm still on the left seat, studying to obtain my ATPL. No loans, all financed with my pretty normal salaries with about 25 non flying jobs. What the hell... No matter what happens... when I wake up in the morning and I look at myself in the mirror, and when we start-up the chopper I smile. Some young captains and co-pilots don't. They just don't understand
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