Good time to quit training?

[vermont]

The whole virus scare looks like it's just pooped the bubble, do the people here suggest anyone about to start or who doesn't have much invested should quit due to the bleak future?

[Blowin' In The Wind]

The whole virus scare looks like it's just pooped the bubble, do the people here suggest anyone about to start or who doesn't have much invested should quit due to the bleak future?

Sorry I don’t do poop bubbles.

[vermont]

The whole virus scare looks like it's just pooped the bubble, do the people here suggest anyone about to start or who doesn't have much invested should quit due to the bleak future?

Sorry I don’t do poop bubbles.

both spellings work

[digits_]

Just be prepared it might take a few years again to find that first job. Minimize debt to pay for flight training. Work while flying.

[ayseven]

Remember you only need ONE job. Never stop moving.

[Eric Janson]

This is still a rapidly changing situation - how long this will go on for is guesswork at this point.

If you can keep your licence current after completing your training you will be ready to start when a job becomes available. You won't get a job without a Licence.

I remember a time when you needed 6000+ hours to fly a Navajo.

In 35 years of Commercial flying I have always had a job when I needed one.

I started at the bottom and worked my way up.

[ant_321]

If a potential dip in hiring is making you ask that question then you don’t really want to fly anyway. So yes, you should quit training.

[vermont]

Remember you only need ONE job. Never stop moving.

Very true now that I think, same attitude towards dating

[vermont]

If a potential dip in hiring is making you ask that question then you don’t really want to fly anyway. So yes, you should quit training.

Everyone is saying this is a 9/11 impact event?

[lownslow]

do the people here suggest anyone about to start or who doesn't have much invested should quit due to the bleak future?

Do you want to fly? Then fly. If you’re doing it for the riches and supermodels pursuing you, I’ve already taken them.

There will be a span of years between starting flight training and getting into the big leagues (if that’s your goal) and sometime in there things can either get better or worse for reasons nobody can predict. One could argue that with pilot duty regs and general retirements happening no matter what, and others in training getting cold feet and dropping out, now is the perfect time to start.

[PilotDAR]

Everyone is saying this is a 9/11 impact event?

Here? Or, not everyone?

You either want to fly, or you don't want to fly, you don't need to ask the group here what you want to do...

[rookiepilot]

Economic cycles come and go, contrary to common belief.

In a word, grow some backbone and persistence.

[vermont]

Economic cycles come and go, contrary to common belief.

In a word, grow some backbone and persistence.

I'm asking is it financially responsible at this point? The airlines lag behind the cycles, and those can take a decade to recover

[vermont]

Everyone is saying this is a 9/11 impact event?

Here? Or, not everyone?

You either want to fly, or you don't want to fly, you don't need to ask the group here what you want to do...

I'd like to but people like "Mentour Pilot" who to me has a lot more credit than people on AV Canada said it's a 9/11 level impact

[rookiepilot]

Economic cycles come and go, contrary to common belief.

In a word, grow some backbone and persistence.

I'm asking is it financially responsible at this point? The airlines lag behind the cycles, and those can take a decade to recover

I don't think anyone can answer that for you,specifically

[Schooner69A]

Vermont: you make reference to a "bleak future"...

I presume you mean in aviation. From whence do you gather that?

[photofly]

Er..."whence" means "from where".

[ant_321]

The point people are trying to make is, if you want to fly you’ll find a way to make it happen. Plenty of people were still going to flight school after 9/11, many of them stuck with it and made a great career for themselves eventually. If you are second guessing your decision because of recent events, it likely means that you don’t want it bad enough to put up with the conditions a potential downturn would bring.

[PilotDAR]

I'd like to but people like "Mentour Pilot" who to me has a lot more credit than people on AV Canada said it's a 9/11 level impact

I don't understand; You have a "Mentour Pilot", whom you take to be more credible than the group here? Okay, but then why ask here if we are not credible?

[Pilotdaddy]

I'd like to but people like "Mentour Pilot" who to me has a lot more credit than people on AV Canada said it's a 9/11 level impact

I don't understand; You have a "Mentour Pilot", whom you take to be more credible than the group here? Okay, but then why ask here if we are not credible?

Don't you know that having a YouTube channel equates instant credibility?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0K5tqoOK_hc