I would like to become a Pilot...?

Unfortunately you do not satisfy age requirements (17). Plus they are looking for third level educated people, meaning people with degrees or professional certificates will have a priority over you.

If you're looking for experience take private or gliding lessons first. I hope you've at least taken an introductory flight before deciding you want to become a pilot.

Anything that involves you looking into the screen cannot give you any experience, for experience you go flying.

1) Stay away from the flight sim programs unless you can play with one under the supervision of a pilot. While they can be useful to you, by playing with them on your own you can gain a lot of bad habits and false ideas that will have to be trained out of you. One step forward, two steps back.

2) Your realistic chances of being selected for a cadet program are about 1 in 300 applicants. They only recruit the best of the best. therefore, don't count on being selected. on the other hand, if you don't try you cannot succeed.

3) It only costs €25,000 out of your own pocket if you are selected to become an Aer Lingus pilot. If you aren't selected, then you must repay the full €100,000 training cost. If you don't have the financial ability to do that, it is a very risky thing to attempt. One reason so few applicants are selected is that in the pre-screening process they determine the candidates most likely to succeed. That's where having some familiarity with aviation can help.

I disagree. I am a commercial pilot, and I found FS to be a very useful tool before and during training. I agree the potential is there to learn bad habits and think your the best pilot ever for landing 747 on two engines at MLW with max crosswind. But with a bit of "real" aviation experience, it is a fantastic way to practice the instrument nav skills you are working on, or procedural work. Before getting up there for real and wasting money while your instructor reminds you the differences between QDM, QDR, the to flag, the from flag etc.

There is no right or wrong way, just if you are going to use it, be sensible and don't start trying to shoot an ILS approach into a stormy JFK with an A320 - that is pretty pointless at this stage - instead get a local 1:500,000 VFR chart, bimble around at 3000' in a C172 or PA28 and learn about VORs and NDBs and how to tune/ident/use these facilities. Don't get too focused on the handling, this is where FS and real world are far apart!

Good luck!

Flight simulators are NO help - These are computer games -

Nothing to compare with a flight simulator used in airline training centers -

They do not expect you to have any prior experience at the cadet courses -

What would help is good grades in mathematics and physics at school -

Then acquire books about aeroplanes, and how to fly them -

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for sure. assorted airline pilots are lady. you do not could have perfect eyesight to be a pilot. you do not even desire perfect imaginative and prescient to be a US air tension pilot. To be a commercial pilot, your imaginative and prescient ought to be correctable to twenty/20. there is greater to it than that however the 20/20 requirement is the single maximum anybody is worried approximately.

Personally I find flight simulator to be useful ONLY if I already know what I'm doing - that way, I'm just using it to keep current and familiar with handling.

If you are new, and you teach yourself on flight simulator, you might get into bad habits!

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