An Aviator’s Field Guide to the Pilot Career Path: A Flight Training Roadmap Taking You from Student to Professional

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Have you dreamed of flying professionally since you were old enough to spy a jet crossing the sky? The path to a pilot career can be rigorous and expensive, but fortunately, you have a knowledgeable advisor to help you get started and keep you on the right track. Aviation writer, instructor, and FAA Designated Pilot Examiner Jason Blair brings his familiarity with the training environment, his understanding of airline hiring practices, and many specific details of the training process to An Aviator’s Field Guide to the Pilot Career Path.

Learn about financing your training, medical concerns and questions, how parents can best help their children pursue the path, how to choose the best training provider, and how to be most efficient in training efforts. Pilot Career Path is a roadmap for pilots (or parents of pilots) seeking to understand the path from starting pilot training to being eligible to be a professional pilot in an airline, charter or corporate operator, or any number of other jobs.

Jason Blair is an active single and multi-engine instructor and an FAA Designated Pilot Examiner with more than 10,000 hours in aircraft as a pilot, flight instructor, and examiner. He has been a pilot since 1992, and since 1999 he has given tests to thousands of pilots for certificates and ratings on behalf of the FAA and worked with pilots who are career-bound aviators. He is engaged with the aviation training industry, its career pilot training pipeline, and the overall aviation training sector in a way that few others are. His passion for aviation training has kept him in this sector of aviation and allows him to help pilots every year along their path to professional pilot careers.

Jason Blair has worked for and continues to work with multiple aviation associations with the work focusing on pilot training and testing. His experience as a pilot includes more than 100 makes and models of aircraft flown.

He has provided aviation training content to many aviation publications, associations, and training product providers. He continues to write for numerous aviation publications with a focus on training and safety.
His years of experience in the training sector offer him a unique perspective on the pilot career track and how to best navigate it from initial efforts to getting hired as a professional pilot. It is this experience that is leveraged to provide the content in this book.