The Guide to Become a Professional Pilot.
The whole road from zero hours to the airlines, in one free PDF: every certificate and what training really costs.
Inside the guide: an offer for a free one-hour consultation to talk through your own plan.
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Everyone tells you to follow your dream. Almost no one tells you what the road actually looks like.
This guide puts the whole road on paper. It walks through every certificate and rating between your first lesson and an airline seat, in the order you'll earn them, with the real costs of each step and the ways people actually pay for training.
By the time you finish reading, you'll know what the journey involves and what it costs, and you'll be ready to talk with schools and instructors about your own plan.
The questions every future professional pilot asks, answered in one place.
The road, the numbers, and the vocabulary you'll need along the way.
A free one-hour consultation with a CFI
The guide includes a link to request a free one-hour consultation with a certified flight instructor. Bring your questions about the road, the costs, or your own situation and talk them through before you commit to anything.
Every certificate, in order
From your first discovery flight to the Airline Transport Pilot certificate: what each certificate and rating lets you do, the requirements to earn it, and how it fits into the path to a flying career.
What training really costs
A full cost breakdown for each stage of training, including how the costs were calculated. The aviation journey has many paths, and you can combine the elements to chart your own.
A pilot's vocabulary, built in
Aviation terms are defined as you meet them, with a linked glossary that jumps you back to where you left off. You'll finish the guide speaking the language of the industry you're entering.
Written by an instructor who has walked students down this road.
Jim Carroll is the founder of Accelerated Pilot and an FAA-certified flight instructor.
A pilot since 2001. The questions in this guide are the ones his students and their families ask him in person: what the road looks like, what it costs, and how to pay for it. He wrote the guide so you can have those answers before you spend a dollar.
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