"Career Opportunities" "Why This Is The Best Time To Train"
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"Timing Your Education" "College Programs vs American Flyers"
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CAREER OPPORTUNITIES...
There’s never been a better time to pursue an aviation career. Flight schools, corporations and the airlines all need professional pilots. There will be more pilot
An astounding 50% of today’s airline pilots will be retiring in the next 10 years.
hired in the next five years than were hired during the last two decades. The airlines historically employed pilots trained by the military, but today most will have received their training from schools like American Flyers. What are the credentials that the airlines are looking for? Good health, 20/20 or corrected vision, at least a two year degree, the appropriate licenses and a minimum of 1,000 hours logged as a pilot. That will get you the interview, but not the job. Most future employers will insist upon a flight test as well, usually conducted in a simulation device. The airlines are also required now to conduct a thorough background check, so it’s imperative to establish and maintain an impeccable record. Regardless of how many hours you have in your logbook, the quality of your education will be very important to your success. We’ve been telling pilots for sixty-seven years the value of excellent flight training and have launched more professional pilot careers than anyone in the world.
The “sure track” to employment is not your hours, but instead your ability to fly an airplane safely and professionally. Another super important aspect of choosing a flight school should be the amount of time it will take to complete your training… for two mighty important reasons. First and foremost, the quicker you are qualified for employment the quicker you can be employed. Second, living expenses would be eight times more costly if you enrolled in a course of study requiring two years instead of the three months
"Regardless of some bad press, the airline pilot position ranks third in job security."
required by an American Flyers’ “Eagle” or “Academy” program. Organization is the primary reason that American Flyers’ courses won’t waste your time. In addition, we own enough aircraft so that you can fly an average of twenty-five hours a week. And to further demonstrate our total commitment to you, our student, we even write and print study guides so that everyone, teachers, schedulers and students are all “on the same page”. (In fact nobody in the industry publishes their own manuals like we do.) We sincerely believe that nobody cares more for their students than American Flyers.
