How old were you when you starting flight training?

Canada14 · Post by **Canada14** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 8:38 pm

How old were you when you starting flight training? Did you have enought coin when you started

Axial Flow · Post by **Axial Flow** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 8:50 pm

Started at 14 and I didn't have any coin then and still don't

neiva · Post by **neiva** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 8:51 pm

I was 22. I had to work hard for 2 years to get my licences.After that another 3 years as a flight instructor with below poverty line salary...by the way that was in a 3 world country.

West Coast Swell · Post by **West Coast Swell** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:03 pm

Started at 21, and unlike some of the posters on Avcanada I have never "not" made enough money working in the Aviation Indusrty. I too was an instructor in the beginning but I was an instrutor in demand so I had too much work and had to turn it down.

Flying around for me has been good.

neiva · Post by **neiva** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:06 pm

and...after 16 years in the industry and 3000 TThs I'm still jobhunting...

sky's the limit · Post by **sky's the limit** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:17 pm

Jobhunter,

I had over 4k hrs, switched to rotary, and spent a month hitching, busing, sleeping on couches and at bus stations with 60hrs in a helicopter. Turned down four, yes four, jobs in FW during that time. I got my first rotary job and the rest is history - if you look hard enough, the jobs are there.

Question is, what are you willing to do to get the job you want?

hazatude · Post by **hazatude** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:22 pm

neiva · Post by **neiva** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:24 pm

I wish I have the money to switch to rotary...
I'm looking hard, don't worry, but like I said in my other post, how much hours do i need to get to fly again.
Ok, I'm been a little bit picky , but after 3000 TT Hs I have the right.
Right now I'm looking for a turbine job as F/O or wathever .
I think i have enough piston time, time to change engines...but hey, maybe I'm asking too much ...

nacho · Post by **nacho** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:28 pm

34. Now 40 and almost where I wanted to be....

Whisky 1 · Post by **Whisky 1** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:36 pm

I was 19 when I started and I too still owe lots of money 8 years later. It took 7 years to get my first fulltime flying job.

sprucemonkey · Post by **sprucemonkey** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:39 pm

Hi Phillip...lol

I was 18.5yrs

Ran out of $$ and started again @ 20

Dust Devil · Post by **Dust Devil** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:55 pm

fingersmac · Post by **fingersmac** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 9:55 pm

i just started 3 months ago at 28 with funding from OSAP.

planett · Post by **planett** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 10:40 pm

22, now 34, have had 8 jobs, 6 moves and haven't sent a resume out since the 8th job, probably never will again, nobody does where I work, and most don't even keep logbooks anymore. Finally satisfaction, lifestyle, and security.

cyyz · Post by **cyyz** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 11:32 pm

planett wrote:22, now 34, have had 8 jobs, 6 moves and haven't sent a resume out since the 8th job, probably never will again, nobody does where I work, and most don't even keep logbooks anymore. Finally satisfaction, lifestyle, and security.

You must work at TC?

R2000/1830 · Post by **R2000/1830** » Sat Nov 19, 2005 11:34 pm

16/17 and the air cadets payed for my glider and private licence. $6000 in scholarships and 3 part time jobs and 1 full time summer job payed my way through Mount Royal finished before my 20th Birthday. Flown for 2 great companies so far. Always made enough to live and have loved every minute of it, even the year on the ramp in ZF.

Scuba_Steve · Post by **Scuba_Steve** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 12:16 am

Started 18, Finished when I was 19 employed by 20 flying by 21, STILL paying off the damn loans 8 years later..

Its been a fun ride. I still love my job.

Cheers

Inverted2 · Post by **Inverted2** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 2:40 am

17 and after 10 long years on the CRJ

Rowdy · Post by **Rowdy** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 3:49 am

I got my first official lesson when I was 13... I started training at 16! It's been a fun ride ever since!

YYC the place to be · Post by **YYC the place to be** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 4:28 am

First Fam Flight was at 13, it was a gift. After that I would mow lawns and shoves driveways just to get in the air again.

Nark · Post by **Nark** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 5:10 am

I started at 15, stopped at 22. Joined the Marine Corps, and now I'm waiting to start again, and hopfully blow shit up from an F-18

Expat · Post by **Expat** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 5:57 am

Snagmaster E · Post by **Snagmaster E** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 6:10 am

gelbisch · Post by **gelbisch** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 7:16 am

18... and it's taken me 8 years (working) to get to where I want to be!

... · Post by **...** » Sun Nov 20, 2005 9:06 am

14 years ago at the age of 24.