How to Become a Commercial Pilot

Hi, my name is Josh Kallenberg and I'm here at the Van Nuys Airport in Los Angeles, California. I've been flying professionally for about 13 years, and now I have the pleasure of flying this Gulfstream G450 which is a lot of fun and exciting. And today I'm going to talk to you about becoming a pilot. So how to become an airline pilot or sometimes we refer to it as a commercial pilot. There's a few ways. Some people take a route of flying with a regional airline or feeder airline. You might recognize it as a United Express. These are the smaller jets or the smaller turbo props and share the major airlines logo but they usually take the shorter routes. That's one way of getting on with them. Usually a minimum of around five hundred hours. Again I think a thousand hours is kind of a nice number where they start to look at you. You know the airlines again are looking for also not only quantity of hours but the quality of hours you experience. So towing banners over the beach or skyriding while being interesting and fun, realistically if you want to build quality hours that they would be looking for flying a corporate aircraft or something with more than one engine, turbine or turbo prop. Those are things that they would probably have preference towards.

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[wtfsincerlyjapan]

@qwertyuiop10944 you can go to flight school now and by the time your 18 you can be qualified for to be a first officer for a company

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Yeah I wanted to become an RAF pilot! Just flew with UWAS today! But unfortunately they are too fucking picky with their vision requirements so it's a no no! Civilian for me now haha!

[bigpapajean1]

@qwertyuiop10944 Its really easy all you really have to do is go to flight school and get your 1000 hours and your good to go i'm also intrested in being a pilot and what you should really do is research on what kind of pilot you want to become.

[qwertyuiop10944]

I am 15 nd hav a passion for flying since I first flew on an airplane.. Can anyone pls tell what can I do now and in the future, to achieve my goal?:)

Thank you so much

[johnello]

@GoPensGo377 holy shit can you help me do this

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My way: Im 17 right now taking a private pilots course, after this year take aviation in college to get commercial liscence, next stop get a crappy pilots job making 30,000 a year, after that apply at cathay pacific. Make a shit load

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Just watched them all 23 and thank you very much mr. Kallenberg! I am only 14 and from Holland but I think I am going to be a pilot!