| Airline experience: |
yes |
| Corporate or fractional experience: |
yes |
| Cargo experience: |
no |
| Military, government, or law enforcement experience: |
no |
| Mentor profile: |
I am 27 years old and fly for Comair, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, based in Greensboro, NC. I started flying when I was 16 at a local flight school here in the Piedmont region of North Carolina, and then made the decision to attend Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Daytona Beach, FL. I graduated from there in May 2000.
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| Favorite thing about flying: |
| I enjoy the actual flying of the airplane and the challenge that it presents, as well as the opportunity to interact with a multitude of different people in any given work month. |
| Disadvatages of being a pilot: |
The time away from home may be an issue for me someday. I am gone literally half of the year. Right now I am single, so that\'s okay, but when I decide to start a family it will get old very quickly.
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| What you would have done different: |
| I would have gone to a public university and gotten a degree in something a bit more marketable and completed my flight training at a small flight school. The large \"pilot factories\" are not worth the money and do not really create an advantage when compared to other flight officer candidates. |
| Advice to aspiring pilots: |
| Persistence! If you truly want to be a pilot, then stick with it and just keep on plugging. You\'re going to encounter some hardship along the way, but if you want it badly enough you\'ll get through it. |
| Problems encounterd along the way: |
Nothing too notable. Didn\'t really care for one of my early flight instructors, but didn\'t turn out to be too detrimental over the long run.
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