Becoming an airline pilot is not a degree you earn; it is an hours-accumulation problem wrapped in a stack of federal certificates and a large pile of debt. This is an honest walk through the certificate ladder from student pilot to ATP, the 1,500-hour rule and why it exists, the brutal arithmetic of building flight time, what simulators actually count for, the pay that was terrible and then suddenly was not, and whether the pilot shortage was ever real.
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The Pilot Training Pipeline