are you interested becoming an airline pilot and are you wondering which I
expect during flight school or when do they go start let me fly the big jets
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maintain one zero ten thousand. Runway one eight left clear for takeoff hey guys
I'm Kelsey I'm a 747 pilot I currently fly international long-haul a prior to
that I did regional flying on a CRJ900 and before that I was flying for a
corporate charter company. So that's my background I'm gonna be going over what
to expect during flight school some things you can expect after flight
school when you'll be able to qualify to start flying jets and when you'll start
being able to get large jets I'm gonna be covering mostly stuff in the US but
as well as some international stuff for any of you people that are planning on
going back overseas or outside the US. So the three things you're going to want to
complete during flight school are going to be your private pilot license your
instrument rating and your commercial rating there will be a few variables in
there like do you have a commercial multi-engine or a commercial
single-engine and in some later videos we'll kind of get into more discussions
of that but those are the three the three main tasks you need to focus on
what i always recommend and what I tell my friends is just break it up into
three separate groups mentally focus on completing one task at a time otherwise
you can start to get a little bit overwhelming if you go to a flight
school and you're gonna go full-time depending on the flight school you go to
it's gonna take eight to 18 months depending on how fast you study how much
you fly what the availability is on the aircraft's you're gonna fly a good
friend of mine Chris who I was at the regionals with he I believe he got
through flight school and in like eight months I think start to finish he said
it was extremely condensed learning he did miss some important things that he
wish he had been able to pay more attention on but he was the whole the
whole idea of flight tool is to finish flight school so you can get out
getting hours quickly, start making money that in mind the idea of completing
quickly is not a horrible idea most people what they'll do is pick one
location if they're gonna do it all together they'll pick one location
they'll go there and they'll do it if you're doing it part-time you're gonna
break it up probably and again my recommendation if you want to work
full-time while getting your pilot license my advice to you would to be
save up the money to get each stage done and go in and condense work on
getting that completed take one or two weeks off of work or go part-time and
really try to get out there and fly as much as you can until you can complete
that the reason I say that is is because I know guys who did it very broken apart
and basically what happens is you're doing two lessons in a week or one
lesson a week on Saturday in the morning for two hours your brain can only
process so on so much information at one time so when you get out there and you
start flying and you're getting two hours a week, you learn some stuff and
then the next week you need to relearn some of that stuff you're paying for the
plane you're paying for the flight instructor it's going to take you more
time in the long run to complete that it's still doable it's just my
recommendation would be if you're serious about doing this get in and
condense complete each of those licenses
and get them done quickly your first job is gonna be one of two variables once
you finish flight school you're either gonna depending on the flight school
that you go to you're either going to have 200 or 250 hours of flight time
roughly maybe at be a little bit more once you finish you either have the
option to a become a flight instructor which is what most people do they go get
what's called a CFI which is a certified flight instructor and they teach new guys like
you if you're if you're currently in flight school or guys that are going to
go to flight school they go back and they start teaching them how to fly it's
a good way to gain experience it's what most guys do because when you finish
flight school with 250 hours not many people want to hire you they know you
don't have a lot of experience or any experience 250 hour
is not a lot in their mind that's the primary route that people go to an
alternative to that if you are able to find it and want to do it this way is to
become a co-pilot generally and start flying on some type of small cargo
operation or small charter operation in usually a small piston driven aircraft
there's advantages to both if you're gonna go become a flight instructor the
advantage is gonna be generally you can pick up a lot of flight time very
quickly you do get the experience of teaching other people which helps you
become a better pilot in the sense that things get really clear in your mind if
you're teaching other people how to do things things get cleared your mind as
far as concepts that you learn during flight school become very clear now that
you're a flight instructor having to teach other people that on the other
side of it if you if you leave and are able to get a charter job with 300 or so
hours they are few and far between they are out there though this is inside the
US only that I'm referring to the benefits of that is you're going to get
a lot more real world experience flying into larger airports you're going to be
flying in weather that generally you're your flight students if you were a
flight instructor would not be flying in you're gonna be getting actual flight
time and clouds and weather and storms and things like that that type of
experience really makes your career easier in the sense of it's not all new
to you once you go to the airlines if you don't have a job lined up in your
planning to go to flight school and then go back and look for a job my
recommendation would to be get time instructing if that's the only job you
can get start getting flight time built up because there's a lot of people out
there that have their commercial license with 250 hours having more than that
gives you a lot more options there's a huge variety of plan that you could be
flying in flight school immediately after flight school if you get a cargo
or that type of job once you get to the airlines and again this is in the US
generally speaking you're going to be flying what's called a CRJ or an ERJ
it's a Canada regional jet they have 200 700 and 900
generally in the US the 200s are slowly fading away they are small 50
seater jet and your 700 to 900 I want to say there you go up to about 70 seats
and then... which is what I flew I flew the CRJ700 and 900 then on the ERJ
side it's an Embraer Embraer jet sometimes they call it the "Jungle Jet"
that's because it was it's a Brazilian company so they got the 145, 170, 175's
are generally the aircraft's that guys are flying at the regionals right now
those are the types of jets you're going to be flying once you once you finish
and have those flight hour requirements right now in the current market if you
have 1500 hours or you have a 1000 hours because you went to an accredited
school you can get a job immediately so there's a huge demand right now that's
happening at the regional airline level as far as for getting people in the door
there's several factors which caused a drought if you will of pilots and people
going through flight school if you're considering going to flight school
you're wondering kind of what one of my chances of getting a job it's ABOUT a
100% assuming you don't have that you failed every exam in training
or you have a major accident or a bunch of things on your criminal record things
like that obviously excluding some major obvious factors if you go through flight
school and you come out you should be able to have a job immediately thanks so
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that I'm gonna be addressing a lot of different things that people have been
asking me about I want to see the comments from you guys as far as for
what you guys want to hear about what you want to know and if it's something
that I think it'd be relevant to most people I'll go ahead and make a video
addressing those things I look forward to hearing from you until then keep the
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