Taking Wing

Most of the jobs I've descibed so far require at least moderate previous experience. Most new commercial pilots, however, have less than...

My last post described some of the more common flying jobs from the regional airlines on up. I'm guessing that a good 90% of pilots end ...

Nothing drives a commercial pilot crazier than this conversation, which tends to take place way too often: Them: What do you do for a job? Y...

Before I launch into a discussion of the vagarities of various flying jobs, I'm going to give a brief description of my own career thus ...

No, I didn't completely forget my last post's promise of subsequent posts on flying careers. I've just been busy. I actually did...

I've said it before: many aspiring professional pilots have a skewed view of the profession. They have unrealistic expectations of the t...

Since my company started adding service at Los Angeles earlier this year, a number of our pilots have started to consciously bid away from i...