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08/09/2010, 12:43 PM Ray Joined on 08/09/2010 Posts 1 Maximum Age to make a career in flying Hi I am 37 years old and have no experience in flying and want to take up a career in flying and hope to make it to First Officer for a leading airline. Am I too late to make a career in flying inorder to be working for a leading Airline?    Report

29/09/2010, 3:54 PM A2B Ferry Joined on 29/09/2010 Posts 1 Re: Maximum Age to make a career in flying Your certainly not too old if you have the time and resources to commit to the training but at age 39 with a couple of hundred hours and a 50k+- dent in your savings, would you be happy doing the donkey work for a young whizz kid with a fraction of your life experiences. Also once you get your frozen atpl you then have to set about gaining additional hours to make you look attractive to a potential employer. The usual lines are, instructing, flying for very low pay for a jump school, crop spraying, ferrying etc. There is a lot of competition for places also but where there is a will, there is a relative. Oops wrong phrase. Good luck Ray    Report

05/10/2010, 6:51 PM Johannes "James"Froehlich Joined on 08/08/2006 Neuchatel Switz Posts 26 Re: Maximum Age to make a career in flying I agree with the above, if your training is adequate, with high standards, the rest is a mix of keeping your standards as high as possible, and staying in the arena. I am personally 38, and I am finishing my JAA IR on top of a JAA CPL - a huge investment. One major point : once you are a pilot, people will look at you from below, act and behave as a pilot, shake hands, and be diplomatical, some opportunities arise just like that, with one guy knowing another that owns an airplane, looking for a pilot etc etc. The modular training could perhaps set reachable targets, PPL NIT CPL MULTI/TURBINE/JET only if a job seems realistic (due to costs) Good look and happy flying    Report

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