Are you wondering what the worst part about being a pilot is coming up? I'm gonna tell you 5 things that most of us hate about our profession.
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Hey crew, welcome seven for gear. My name is Kelsey. I'm a 747 pilot
Today we're gonna be talking about what the worst part about being an airline pilot is earlier
I covered what the best part about being a pilot is and I'll link that in the video somewhere today
I'm gonna be going over. What are the five things that most of us really don't like about a profession
These are strictly my opinions not anybody else's but these are the five things that I personally dislike the most about being a professional aviator
Number one the amount of time that it takes and the cost that it takes to start making money and
flying nicer aircraft
most of you will find that you need usually a 1000 or 1500 hours to be able to get your first airline job that
Is frustrating flight school is very expensive after flight school
You have to build flight time
If you're at a school and you become a flight instructor some places you're able to get hours very quickly some not so fast
That time during flight school is usually tough
A lot of people are paying for their loans that they had
To go to flight school as well as trying to live all of those things during flight school and after flight school
Trying to get money and then getting to your first job at the regionals which while right now
It's paying a lot better than what it was 10 years ago
It's still pretty low considering the amount of time and effort and cost that it takes to becoming a pilot
Putting all that money out to go to flight school then all the work it takes to get you know a thousand or 1500 hours
to then get a job which pays
pretty average
That was pretty pain... That was that was a painful aspect about it. So that's number one on my things that I dislike the most
Number two of the worst parts about being a airline pilot the endless studying. You're always study I thought okay great
I'm gonna learn how to fly I'm gonna be a great pilot and I'm gonna be set and I'm gonna be good to go
No, that's not how it works. Once you get the airlines every six months
Sometimes less you're having studying recurrent studying that need to do manuals that you need to review
Procedures systems you need to go to the simulator
practice engine failures and fires and all the different procedures that they have you do is while you go through training so you are constantly
Studying studying the manuals studying the standard operating procedures. All of those things is a non-stop studying process and
I'd like to be really good at what I do. I just didn't think it was gonna be
Requiring me to study all the time even on your time off when you're at home or you're on a trip
There's always stuff to study. Maybe I'm just not a good student, but that's number two of my list
Number three on the list of worst things about being airline pilot
There's this
Worry that most pilots have deep in the back of their mind of
what If I lose my medical ever six months or a year
Depending on how old you are and what country you live in you have to go get your medical exam
Usually once you get your medical for the first time for the most part you're able to maintain that medical if you don't have anything
Physically new or different than what you normally have you will generally pass your medical
Maybe you need to get glasses or something like that
But for the most part once you've gotten your medical the first time the rest of your career
You should be able to hold it assuming nothing major changes
however, that's a concern that most pilots have lurking in the back of their mind is for what if I
You know cut my finger off or lose an eye or whatever
There's a there's a risk of losing your medical and the skill of being airline pilot can only be used into one thing
Flying planes. So if you don't have that ability anymore, it gets very limited of the types of jobs that you can have
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Number four is also about losing your job
but not because if your medical about something like your airline closes or
the economy pulls back in the current environment right now with the pilot shortage that's going on and and I talked about that and
What's the best part about being an airline pilot but in this current environment you?
realistically aren't gonna be
what they say on the streets basically not able to get a job as a pilot just because of the overall shortage worldwide of
pilots right now
that being said
It can happen you can have where the economy in your country or wherever you're at pulls back or your airline closes
And now you got to start all over again, and that's a very frustrating thing
I have met guys that spent ten or fifteen years at an airline building up seniority
They upgraded they were
Captain's they had a good quality of life and then their airline went belly-up and then they had to go somewhere and they start all
Over again you start from the bottom the same guy who
started flying ten or fifteen years after you that's one of the worst things about being an airline pilot is the
Instability of what could happen what might happen with your airline or the economy. You could be the best pilot
everybody can love you and
You can be really good at what you do
But if your airline closes you still have to go out interview and get another job
So that's one of the worst things about being an airline pilot
Number five its sleep. If you're doing long-haul flying you're gonna have jet lag you're going to be
Flying, maybe a ten or fifteen hour flight from one side of the earth to other side of the earth and you might have 12
Hours or three days rest it can always vary
There is some sleep deprivation that's gonna happen when you're doing that if you're doing domestic and this is for me personally
Getting up early. I hate waking up early four in the morning
That's not what I want to get up four in the morning to walk out in the snow in upstate
New York or in Canada in
January that is not what I want to do
Okay crew that wraps up what I think are the five worst things about being an airline pilot
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I want to hear from you
What do you think is the worst thing about being an airline pilot or
What do you think is gonna be the hardest thing for you once you become an airline pilot?
I look forward to hearing from you until then keep the blue side up