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Financial Aid Presentation

Not sure if you saw this in all our emails we send out but we have an online financial aid seminar/interview we did with the folks at MESA Pilot Development at San Juan College that has been a viewed over 700 times in the past few months. If you missed this unique interview go here to get a copy emailed to you.

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About this Site

Welcome to the brand new Career Pilot blog from Pilot Journey.  We’re just now putting this blog together so pardon the “dust” while get this new project off the ground.
Pilot Journey’s Career Pilot blog is designed to help you on your journey to be a career pilot. We are going to take some new […]

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Do Career Pilots Need A College Degree?

One of the most common questions we get asked here at Pilot Journey is regarding if you need a college degree to be a career pilot. What do you think?

Our thoughts are yes you do need a degree and here are some things to think about.

What if you decide later in life that you do not like all the travel and all those weeks away from family?

With 800,000 people developing Type 2 diabetes per year, what if you can no longer keep your aviation medical certificate?

We want to know what you think. Discuss this in the career pilot forums here on Pilot Journey. Or leave your comment here on Career Pilot.

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Europe-American Aviation enters market for Career Pilot Training

NAPLES, Florida, October 3rd , 2007 - With CLEARED DIRECTTM the world’s first Diamond Brilliance Flight CenterTM launches the first all Glass cockpit Career Pilot Program. Just over one year ago, Europe-American Aviation EAA embraced the future by joining forces with Diamond Aircraft Industries to become the worldwide first Diamond Brilliance Flight CenterTM.

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‘Journal’ Your Training

If you are looking to save money and learn more while doing your flight training you might want to consider the advantages of keeping what academia calls a ‘reflective journal’.  This journal enables you to as I call it relive your flight lessons by writing down what happened, what you learned and what questions you may have of your flight instructor.

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Phoenix East Acquires New FTD

Daytona Beach, Florida, USA — Phoenix East Aviation, Inc. (PEA) has taken delivery of its new flight simulation equipment to be used in the academy’s professional pilot training programs. In preparation for the delivery of its five new Diamond DA-42 multi-engine aircraft, Phoenix East’s new Frasca 242 FTD features the Garmin G-1000 integrated  avionics package for realistic and reliable aircraft simulation.

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