Airline Pilot: 5 Things I Wish I Knew BEFORE I Started

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  @PilotBible · 3 months ago (edited) · pinned

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• MI

  @Mike-br8zt · 3 months ago

  There is nothing like hitting the hotel gym at 2am because your body is in another timezone and the only other people in the gym are also pilots.

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  @paulsartorello836 · 3 months ago

  Sounds just like trucking, with more respect!!

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  @Itach6186 · 2 months ago (edited)

  😂 still better than an office job any day tbh<br><br>Im a fellow pilot in the US. You will never convince me my job sucks haha. This is my second career, I know what it is to be in a job that I hated.

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  @Juliette_4 · 2 months ago (edited)

  I’m a physician who can relate to the negative aspects of your job as a pilot. I also have an aviation license and found there is more work to flying than enjoyment. Pilots and flight attendants deserve more money than their company executives!!! I don’t know how you all can stand sitting and flying long hours in a plane , dealing with noise, strange environments, jet lag, boredom, loneliness, irregular hours. Cheers to all of you who make us safe in the air.

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  @KeepingOnTheWatch · 3 months ago

  The value I derived from this video is seeing someone else in the airline industry talking candidly about fatigue, which I too still struggle with. It’s rare for other pilots I operate with to talk about this, perhaps feeling that it makes them look ‘weak’.

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  @j.heilig7239 · 1 month ago

  I spent a LOT of time, money, energy, emotion, and hard work to become an airline pilot. &nbsp;The problem is that I was born 30 years too late or 30 years too early. &nbsp;Pilots were a dime a dozen in the 1980s and 90s. I finally decided I liked to eat more than I liked to fly. The universe kept telling me I wasn&apos;t going to be an airline pilot. &nbsp;Fortunately I&apos;m smart enough to (finally) listen to it, and I went a different way. I ended up as a nurse anesthesiologist (if you want to talk about stressful jobs), making way more money than I could have as a pilot.

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  @hauke2103 · 1 month ago

  I am a german Air Traffic Controller and back in the days, I applied for both: The job as a controller and as a pilot. I had the test for controllers before the pilots test and I got the job. From a gut feeling I canceled the pilots test and became an ATCO. And I never regretted it. Even though, it is a stressfull job, shift work, etc. I always drive home to my family. Having a family now, that is even more important. Still, I love watching pilot POV videos, I am a flight sim enthusiast, but I love my job &quot;on the other side of the mic&quot;

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  @naglasair1 · 3 months ago

  I quit the regionals after 11 years. Everything you said is accurate. I don’t miss it much

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  @MrDeltaHotel · 2 months ago

  As a former frontline police officer who worked shifts I can really relate to everything you&apos;ve said here. Thank you for sharing and it was only when I was landing a B737-400 in a simulator that I fully understood and appreciated the massive stress and workload of a pilot.<br><br>So much kudos and respect to you and your colleagues.

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  @johnfable3939 · 2 months ago

  Thank you for your honesty. You seem like an intuitive pilot with good insights who would be fun and safe to fly with.

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  @michaelallen1396 · 3 months ago (edited)

  I&apos;m line maintenance, I feel sorry for pilots when an issue grounds the plane when they are about to push back, it &nbsp;is stressful for everyone involved and really makes for a bad day for all.

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