This is a great site. Nothing like the simple information base provided here for a soon to be private pilot student like me.
Ok, so my engagement ended after 4 years, but where many people might spend the foreseable weekends ahead in bars making friends with similarly miserable souls, I remembered a calling from childhood that I'd forgotten for the last two decades; the call of the sky!!
I'm going to end up loving my sweetheart for making me single again
So here I am, I bought my textbooks ahead of time in preparation for my ground school which starts May 1. I am so excited and yet I'm making sure I do the book work before I start flying. I've been out of school for a few years and want to keep a realistic check on my entheusiasm. As in, can I still study?
I do have a request for people's input;
Not that I am planning to change my career, but while I was browsing (mostly for fun) and looking at the flying jobs out there, I noticed that it's mostly airline jobs. I guess that's what's most available and what most people want, but it brought up questions.
When people buy planes from dealers, who flys them to their new homes? I don't think the new owners always want to come pick them up.
What about all the miles of wire and piplines that run through remote areas? I heard planes fly over these on a regular basis for maintainance.
What about planes that service people in remote areas? Alaskan bush pilots might be famous, but what about other places on the continent or around the world?
What about people who tow sailplanes, or take up skydivers?
What about aerial sightseeing?
Aerial photography?
Surveying?
I'm wondering if anyone here has heard of or have done themselves, interesting flying jobs that's not usually posted on the average pilot job forums.
I would love to hear some stories.
Maybe I'll see you in the sky. (Not too close I hope)