It is great to see fellow veterans achieve the goal! Congratulations! I am an Army pilot retiring in May next year (I am 53 years old) and will begin an internship to build 250 airplane PIC hours. I have 102.5 airplane PIC, 39.6 ME, and 172.5 airplane hours, for a total of 2303 hours, including a helicopter (I have FAA Commercial ASEL, AMEL, Helicopter, and Instrument Ratings). 147.5 airplane PIC hours to apply airlines. Thanks for sharing your story. It motivates a lot of us young people!
Turning 60 next week. Have been tossing a PPL around in my mind for the past three weeks (current MSFS Junkie). I don't need an airline, I'd rather fly freight anyway, but the allure of flying my favorite (B777) is delicious! Flying Corporate a possibility for me?
Fellas, it’s much easier for to listen the episodes on Spotify is my choice, rather than watching them. Not sure if they are not getting uploaded or my service is janky. Thank you for the shows and the interviews, it’s alway nice to get more points of views.
I'm 35 just join the USAF Reserve as a junior enlisted E-3 training to be a C-17 crew chief. It may not be directly pilot related but its a damn good foundation towards becoming a pilot for the airlines.
This gives me a lot of Hope. I graduated out of FlightSafety back in 1996 with a Commercial Multi/ Instrument. I was 20 and now turning 49 and haven't flown since. How can I work my way to the Airlines or Corporate Jets? I really have an absolute passion for Aviation..
I'm 49, and so far, my greatest aspiration is to simply get paid to fly. Being a FI sounds fine to me, although I'm sure that I'll move on to something else for better pay for a couple years before I have to go back to that at 65. In the meantime, my wife is complaining that she'll likely never retire if I have to cash in all my RRSPs to get into this.
Perhaps, but as someone else who's also pursuing the later in life career change I've learnrd it is probably better to pursue and possibly fail at something you love than to stay rooted and "succeed" at something that's making you miserable.
What's a good career?? Working 30 years at Eastern, Braniff, Pan Am and loosing it all (job and retirement)??? Pilots today have no clue of how relatively cushy they have it. As for flying 5-7 years, so what? This guy was coming up when I did. 5,000-6,000 hours to get on with a major. 9/11 flushed everything for years. It's all relative.
the retirement age will always be 65 for all pilots, that is written in stone. this guy has 5 years left to fly for a living, he wont even have any retirement benefits.im 61 and i would never wast all of that small fortune on flight trading this late in the game.
Never say always and never say never. The age was raised from 60 to 65 in 2007, granted, this still met ICAO standards but no reason an age 67 Part 121 pilot couldn’t solely be assigned domestic routes, easy enough with scheduling software. It’s more of a union issue than an age/safety issue.
It is great to see fellow veterans achieve the goal! Congratulations! I am an Army pilot retiring in May next year (I am 53 years old) and will begin an internship to build 250 airplane PIC hours. I have 102.5 airplane PIC, 39.6 ME, and 172.5 airplane hours, for a total of 2303 hours, including a helicopter (I have FAA Commercial ASEL, AMEL, Helicopter, and Instrument Ratings). 147.5 airplane PIC hours to apply airlines. Thanks for sharing your story. It motivates a lot of us young people!
Yo! That's my cousin Adam! Great guy, Navy vet, family man.
This is JUST the episode that deserves a million views.Thanks Mike and Shawn
As a future career 2.0 pilot, this makes me feel better about my chances.
52 years old and scheduled to solo tomorrow. This gives me hope.
Good Luck!
Congrats! I’m 50 and about to take Checkride. 😊
You got this Jason
Happy solo!
I'm only 31 and just starting my private pilot journey but this was super insightful! I really appreciate you speaking with this older gentleman.
Career 2.0 guy here. I’ll be 50 years old next year and working towards my IFR.
Awesome episode!
What a great motivational video, another great content. Great job Adam
Way to go Adam!!! Have they given you a class date? I got my CJO (at 54!) last June and don’t yet have a class date.
Thanks! I don’t have class date yet. Hoping for second qtr. but really no idea officially.
Turning 60 next week. Have been tossing a PPL around in my mind for the past three weeks (current MSFS Junkie). I don't need an airline, I'd rather fly freight anyway, but the allure of flying my favorite (B777) is delicious! Flying Corporate a possibility for me?
i think you need an atp for cargo as well but not for corporate. get that private pilots license never too late for that
@thehowtostudios1980 thanks! Yeah, I was watching some vids and it appears that an ATP with commercial is still going to require retirement at 65.
The bug never goes away
Fellas, it’s much easier for to listen the episodes on Spotify is my choice, rather than watching them. Not sure if they are not getting uploaded or my service is janky.
Thank you for the shows and the interviews, it’s alway nice to get more points of views.
Let’s Go!
Very inspiring..
I'm 35 just join the USAF Reserve as a junior enlisted E-3 training to be a C-17 crew chief. It may not be directly pilot related but its a damn good foundation towards becoming a pilot for the airlines.
This gives me a lot of Hope. I graduated out of FlightSafety back in 1996 with a Commercial Multi/ Instrument. I was 20 and now turning 49 and haven't flown since. How can I work my way to the Airlines or Corporate Jets? I really have an absolute passion for Aviation..
I joined the airlines at 61-1/2.
I'm 49, and so far, my greatest aspiration is to simply get paid to fly. Being a FI sounds fine to me, although I'm sure that I'll move on to something else for better pay for a couple years before I have to go back to that at 65. In the meantime, my wife is complaining that she'll likely never retire if I have to cash in all my RRSPs to get into this.
I love the shirt Adam!
Flying rocks!!! It doesn’t matter how old you are.
This is a great story.
I’m still a sim instructor at 74 after a 35 yr airline career. There’s always a door open somewhere!
Even if you can log it, no future employer cares if you logged dual received in a citation
That is admirable. I live in Europe/UK, changing careers to aviation here later in life feels almost impossible.😑
But did he sign the training contract??
Yes I did 😊
@aglaysh great thanks for sharing
65.5 wouldnt be much of an improvement to the age restriction
Age restrictions on any two-pilot flying is rediculous.
It is too late to have a good career
Perhaps, but as someone else who's also pursuing the later in life career change I've learnrd it is probably better to pursue and possibly fail at something you love than to stay rooted and "succeed" at something that's making you miserable.
What's a good career?? Working 30 years at Eastern, Braniff, Pan Am and loosing it all (job and retirement)??? Pilots today have no clue of how relatively cushy they have it. As for flying 5-7 years, so what? This guy was coming up when I did. 5,000-6,000 hours to get on with a major. 9/11 flushed everything for years. It's all relative.
@ A good career is one that will provide good QOL and schedule. You won’t have it starting at age 50-60
How's about the guys just fucking happy! People always try to fund the neg
the retirement age will always be 65 for all pilots, that is written in stone. this guy has 5 years left to fly for a living, he wont even have any retirement benefits.im 61 and i would never wast all of that small fortune on flight trading this late in the game.
He can fly corporate after the airlines.
Never say always and never say never. The age was raised from 60 to 65 in 2007, granted, this still met ICAO standards but no reason an age 67 Part 121 pilot couldn’t solely be assigned domestic routes, easy enough with scheduling software. It’s more of a union issue than an age/safety issue.