Experience

The Twin Otter! This aircraft is a plane that is often flown internationally. I can fly is most weather conditions and is capable to land on almost any surface. I was recently having a nice pilot to pilot chat over email with m step mother’s new husband and he was telling me that he been a pilot of the Havilland fleet Twin Otter and getting paid very nicely! The first few things he was telling me is that experience is the key to becoming a pilot! He said to me that you need to do what you can to not just get caught up with all the simulator junk and keep up with the experience of mastering the aircraft of your choice. To poke around and fly a bunch of different aircraft and see which one you love to fly the best and then stick with it, master it, then find a job that will take your hard earned experience to put it to the test as a career and succeed! He had done this with the Twin Otter and is now happily doing what he loves flying around the world, seeing new sights ever day, while flying the plane of his choice. Now that is definitely the way to go! Therefore, I plan to take his advice by doing what I can to get through college at the University of Dubuque where I was recently accepted and given a large scholarship of $40,000 and continue to gain experience with the smaller aircraft, obtain my licenses and possibly go corporate and start getting a lot of experience early on in my career choice of becoming a professional pilot! This is something that I great enjoy and appreciate and I would love to make the most out of it by doing what I can while I can. Thanks again for the advice from all the pilots I’ve talked to!

My Interests

This blog is going to be everything applicable to my interests. I have always been craning my neck toward the sky dreaming that one day I would live there. Back in middle school, I had taken my first flight. I had taken two flights, one from San Francisco to Pheonix, then Pheonix to Cedar Rapids. This was a huge turning point in my life since this was the point that I finally made the decision to continue with my interest in Flight Operations. I then began to look into colleges around my hometown. Internship opportunities, scholarships, phone numbers, emails, information letters in the mail began to pill up all around me. In the early years of my high school career, I had already planned out the next six years of my life. I knew exactly what classes I needed to take in order to reach my goal and I had a fairly good idea of which college I wanted to attend. Recently I had taken two visits to the University of Dubuque. This university is absolutely perfect to my interests. Between having a beautiful campus, friendly staff, and a fabulous Aviation program, there was no way I was deciding otherwise to not attend the university. My application, transcript, and ACT scores are already sent in and I am only waiting for the nerve racking moment when I receive a letter from them in a few months. Hopefully all goes well and I will be able to begin my long journey of becoming a professional airline pilot!