HOW TO BECOME AN AIRLINE PILOT | Pathways to building your flight time - Flyingwithgarrett EP2

[Music] what's going on everyone welcome back to another episode of flying with Garrett at least I think that's what I'm going to call it for now but I hope everyone enjoyed episode 1 of this new series that I'm doing I'll give you guys just another real quick update on captain upgrade training since I figured most people that are coming to this aren't interested in aviation so I just got really good news that my checkride my final P I see type rating check ride is next Wednesday so that's a week from today and I'm super excited this has been such a long drawn out process wait long and it really needed to be but we ran into some issues and like have a week off here and we got there and yeah I'm just super excited to knock it out so I'm actually going into a simulator tonight I've got loft one of four so Loftus line-oriented flight training essentially all we do is just it's like a normal flight I guess we would go from Philadelphia to I don't know a Charlotte North Carolina and we just go through the normal procedures of you know loading passengers and doing weight balance and cargo loading and going through the release and flight plan and then just pushing off a gate taxiing out to the runway and taking off just like a normal flight and then they normally do have about like one maybe two minor instances just to see what kind of captain Authority you would use whether you need to divert or just what kind of procedures you would use so I've got lawful one tonight and then three more after that and then a couple days off and then my final check ride and then I'll have about two to three weeks off before I'm actually flying and the left seat of the airplane as the captain which I'm super super excited about but anyways to the topic of today's video this is probably the most requested get it is different pathways to becoming an airline pilot and this I can't you know really speak for any pathway outside the United States just because I'm not real familiar with the policies and the flight time and costs and stuff so I've done a little research and then I'm gonna speak from my experience and what I did so I'll just start off what I did and how I became an airline pilot so what I did I was in college for actually a business management degree I was 18 years old and I got a job at an airport next my college just working on the line as we call it a line boy so I was fueling airplanes washing airplanes doing stuff like that and then I called my dad who is an airline pilot but he never really pushed it upon me to like I don't know be a pilot or anything so I've always been interested in airplanes but I never really was like that kid that was always standing up in the sky saying oh that's what I want to do with my life but I called my dad and said hey it's pretty cool working around airplanes I think I might want to fly so I did this thing called discovery flights he jump in the airplane with an instructor they do everything you get up at altitude and then you can't I don't know if I they're playing a little bit and I was like this is pretty awesome I kind of like this so I decided to get my private pilot's license and iserlohn at about 12 hours which means I took their plane out by myself and I did three touch and goes all by myself no instructor so about 12 hours in the airplane I was soloing and then right at the Private Pilot minimums at 40 hours I took my private pilot check ride so at 40 hours and I kind of drugged my but I wasn't really hustling or anything and about I don't know eight months later I had my private pilot's license I was like this is pretty this is pretty sweet flying an airplane I kind of want to pursue this as a career so me and my dad did some research and I decided to transfer colleges and I went down to Embry Riddle in Daytona Beach Embry riddles and Aeronautical University it's primarily flight training but they do have big you know aerospace engineering degrees and stuff like that so I went down to Embry Riddle and I got my instrument rating my commercial single and commercial multi rating and then I decided to become a flight instructor so there are many many different ways of building flight time but I thought it was best and just by asking around and you know reading on the internet and stuff I figured that flight check it was probably the best way to build my flight time so I went down just a just a few minutes south of Daytona Beach to New Smyrna Beach where I became a flight instructor I got my CFI which is certified flight instructor rating and cfw I which is the same thing with an instrument rating so at this point I was teaching people how to fly I was teaching private pilot's commercial pilot's instrument pilots and then after a certain amount of time I was actually teaching other instructors how to fly so I was a CFI teaching other co5 and it was awesome I busted my absolute but to build flight time because at that point I knew that seniority is everything I mean that's all my dad has told me that's what everyone says seniority is everything that's industry so every day that was going by that I wasn't at the airlines more people were getting hired ahead of me and so I really kind of gave a lot of my orals away to other flight instructors and I was flying every day four to five flights a day and then I bought a Cessna 150 and me and my buddy after flight instructor he was also flying sucker every day we would jump in it and fly like New Smyrna Beach to Tampa and back so I was I was maximizing my flight time I was trying to fly minimum five six hours a day so after flight instructing and building flight time and picking up any other jobs I could I went up to Martha's Vineyard and flew an airplane all the way down down to New Smyrna Beach I was just picking up airplanes left and right and anything that I could do to build flight time is what I did so we have a restricted ATP minimums in the United States and then we also have the full 18 ATP minimum so full ATP minimums is I believe 50 hours of multi-engine in 1500 hours of total time so since I went to Emory riddle and did at least I believe those 60 credit hours and there's a few other minor things and also got my and instrument in commercial walls at embry-riddle which is a part 141 school I was eligible for the restricted minimum so all I needed was a thousand hours of total time and I could go to the airline's so like I said I busted my butt built as much flight time as quick as possible and eight months later after becoming a CF I I was in ground school at at the airliner work for now so that was that's my story that's the way I did it if I were to go back and do it all again I'd probably change one big thing and that was the college I went to just primarily because of how much time it took and it's just the cost I mean it's probably one of the most it is the most expensive flight school out there and I'm gonna go through a couple other ways and then I'm gonna tell you probably if I were to go do it again which way so there is you can you could go out to any airport really and there's gonna be instructors there and there's gonna be airplanes to rent so to get to get everything started to get your private pilot's license you're gonna spend eight to ten thousand dollars if you were to not go to a university and that includes airplane rental instructor fees yeah you gotta buy books for ground school you got to pay for ground school your ATP or not ATP but your fa written exam for private pilot's license you probably got to get a headset insurance a lot of these different things and yeah so you're going to spend about eight to ten thousand dollars to the private pilot's license and like I said you can go to pretty much a local airport and they're gonna have these things there for you but if I were to go back into it there's this thing called ATP here in the United States which is a flight school there's 30 of ya there's 37 of them across the United States and what ATP is is they specialize in flight training essentially people coming in from zero hours so no one that's ever touched an airplane up to ready to go to the airlines and they have I don't work with this company I never work at this flight school or anything but if I were to go back and do it all over again I would probably go to this ATP flight school and the reason is is there's a couple reasons a most people that go to like the University that I went to if they I saved so much money thankfully by taking my private pilot's license into the university Merce getting everything there but there's some people that come out of that University in $200,000 in debt thankfully I wasn't nearly as much as that but that's people who who pursue a the aviation career they thing in riddle or some of these top like all burns some big flight schools here in the United States are where you have to go but if I were to go and do it again I would go to ATP so if you just type in on the Internet ATP flight school you can go they have a thing called flight training time line zero experience to airline pilot in about two years and keep in mind I went to college for four years so that's in college for four years and wasting so much money you know over a hundred thousand dollars so it takes I'll break down their timeline this is from zero time private pilot is about three months then five and a half months later instrument earning six months crew style across country so I believe what that is is it's two people that are both in this face they jump on an airplane and they just fly all day building their flight time and then six and a half months later you're a commercial pilot eight and a half months later you're a certified flight instructor then you do your multi agent hat on which is about nine months and then if you start from the zero experience with this ATP flight school they guarantee you a flight instructor job which is pretty pretty cool and then there are a few airlines that this company works with for tuition reimbursement which i think is a pretty cool program if you go and sign a contract with one of these regional carriers saying that you will go and work for them they will give you I believe it's $5 an hour of flight training back to your tuition that you spend and then they have a airline placement program so that's at 1500 hours so this isn't on part 141 school where you can go and get a restricted ATP minimums but I think this school is probably the fastest and one of the most cost efficient ways of building your flight time and getting to the airline's as quick as possible I I think that you can beat that in fact I know you can be years of zero experience to an airline pilot because this is it's a pretty lenient from nine months to two years is what they're saying a building your flight time I did it in eight months yes I was just going to a thousand hours but there's no reason why you shouldn't be flying a hundred hours a month as a flight instructor just picking up as much work as possible or doing any sort of side gigs so the cost of this program is right it's eighty thousand dollars so like I said I don't work with this company but if I were to go do it again this is what I would do and a big big reason is kind of times are changing every day I mean if you are just in the loop with regional carriers and stuff their pilot contracts are getting updated yearly because of the pilot shortage and they have to stay in competition with each other if one pay raise goes up to $65 in our first year pay for a first officer with a 25,000 dollar signing bonus and you know someone's $15 an hour less than that well no one's going to go to the $15 less airline so everyone just keeps the worn-out picking each other and which is great for pilots it's excellent it couldn't be a better time in this in this industry to be a pilot so like I said I would do this because my four-year degree my bachelor's degree in aeronautical science had spent over a hundred thousand dollars getting really means nothing now these days it's a sweet degree I love the school I went to but if I were to go do it again I wouldn't do it because these regional carriers they don't require and require a bachelor degrees four-year degrees or some of them don't require two-year degrees so this is why I would say save your time and going to college and this is just my perspective I'm not saying don't go to college I'm just saying if I were to go do it again I wouldn't go to school I'd bust my butt getting all my at 21 years old I would be a pokémon's so there's I pulled up the flight school that I worked for at a New Smyrna Beach and they have a professional airline pilot program so this is tuition and hours and the grand total so ATP was $80,000 this grand total is 66 thousand dollars and this doesn't include oh it does include your written exams and stuff like that so yeah you can compare those and there's so many different options this also includes fly CFI and something that would probably I did my see if I and see if WI which were about four thousand and five thousand dollars so you could save another nine thousand dollars if you decided to go another route after getting your commercial single on commercial multi so a couple other routes that you could do to get to that fifteen hundred hours of flight time is pipeline flying and what this is is is some of these companies have security in the air and you're jumping in a little Cessna 150 or 172 or something and flying up and down a pipeline all day long and yes you're building flight time but you're really not learning anything you're not you're not flying an inch in mint condition so since the last time you were doing your flight training you haven't really been flying an IMC so you're getting rusty and you're getting weak on your instrument skills which you're definitely going to use an airline industry and you're really not staying sharp on all your materials from your flight training so that's why I believe being a see if I super important because you're if you can teach it to someone you definitely know it so and that's what you're doing building your whole flight time is you're teaching you're teaching you're teaching and I just I I think I know from my perspective because I recruiting for the airline that I work for in my eyes I feel like certified flight instructors are tend to be a little bit more sharp when it comes to just knowledge and aerodynamics and instrument knowledge and that's something that if you aren't sharp or when you do come in to do that airline transition it's gonna be tough because you're gonna be struggling you're gonna be knocking all that rust off so that's that's the reason why I did to see if I round and if I were to go back and do it again I would still become a flight instructor so you have a pipeline Patrol you have banner towing which if you go to the beach and you see the airplane flight airplane flying back and forth with a banner on the back most likely it's someone just building flight time most people don't make careers out of banner towing so they're just up there and doing about 50 knots over the water back and forth back and forth all day it's great way to build flight time cos you're up there for about six hours a day but like you said you're not staying sharp on your knowledge so you got pipeline Patrol you've got banner towing and you've got survey work so I consider doing the survey work and looking back at it I'm glad that I stuck with the route that I did but survey work any type of construction or yeah just big big construction projects there's always airplanes going up there and taking pictures for the companies for the cities for whatever there's tons of surveying jobs out there and tons of surveying companies out there like I said all this stuff you can find on Google if you just type in surveying pilot jobs or whatever there's tons of them out there and like I said you're just you're flying in BMC you're flying in beautiful clear days all the time so you're not really flying through clouds and in staying sharp and up-to-date on your instrument skills and then and then you have cargo work so cargo work is probably the one second to being a flight instructor that I would suggest you can go out and in about 400 hours you can get some jobs flying Cessna Grand Caravan switch 4 to 8 208 bees and you go out and just and fly with cargo companies and these smaller companies that are finding success on grand caravans tend to feed they go to really small airports and they tend to feed the big hubs for like FedEx and UPS and stuff like that so those are those are my ways that I found best of building flight time like I said if I were to go do it again and do your research please please please do your research don't take my word for everything but a lot of these regional carriers don't require you know bachelor degrees so if I were to go back and do it again I would go to a school like like ATP and start from zero bust my butt yes you're there all day every day because you're in grad school you're doing multiple flights a day you're studying but it's it's to get to your your career and doing this two-year program you get there essentially at least two years quicker than someone who went and did a four-year degree on this flight instructing after that building time so yeah that that's that's all I got on pathways to become an airline pilot here in the United States to get your ATP rating if you guys enjoyed the video if you're enjoying this this series that I'm doing if you want to maybe see me post more than once a week let me know comment below if you're new here subscribe go check out my Instagram I won there every day it's the same as my youtube channel fly with Garrett and I look forward to seeing you guys next week

Channel: flywithgarrett

Views: 195,382

Keywords: pilot, airline, flight, aviation

Id: 1HAXMHSvG5M

Length: 20min 43sec (1243 seconds)

Published: Thu Apr 11 2019