Against All Odds: Became A Major Airline Pilot At 41 Years Old

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I’m finally a pilot for a major airline in the United States! Needless to say I’m super excited to start flying soon. But for now, I just completed the type rating flight training and I’m sharing that experience in this video!

And yes, I’m 41 and this pilot gig is my second career. If you also want to change your career and join the pilot life, then make sure you check out the other videos on this channel. There is a lot of info here to help you on your flying journey.

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50 thoughts on “Against All Odds: Became A Major Airline Pilot At 41 Years Old”

  6. I want a career as a pilot but I’m almost 60 with very low hours and no collage degree. I’m not very marketable and this will be an uphill battle. I think age works against you in this industry.

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  12. Hi, Nancy. Congrats on getting in the Airlines.

    I'm an Electrical Engineer now, and haven been thinking about changing careers and get into the Airlines. I'm 31 and have 13 hours of flight training. Do you think it's late to get into the Airlines and make a good career and retire as a captain?

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  14. Congrats Nacy! I'm 45 and working on my instrument rating. Flying a ton building time. I hope one day I can get paid to do this. Don't really have a preference on what route I'll go just yet, just going to see where it takes me.

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  20. Huge congratulations on your achievement!! 🎉❤

    And thank you for sharing your journey! This is a reminder to anyone who is considering a change of path to something you are passionate about, that age is not a factor until you decide to use it as an excuse.

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  25. Absolutely amazing story. I am right around your age slightly older and honestly, I did not think it was possible at this point. You are living my dream! Incredibly impressive!

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  26. Nancy, congrats on making it to the majors. I am jealous. Maybe I will run into you some day at my home airport–Dulles–and I will stop and say hi. Maybe someday I will have the guts to start flight training. Good luck to you! I hope that awful commute you currently have will not last long. Come to Dulles when you can!

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  28. congrats, after 1000 hrs IR ME CPL 911 happened and never got the break into the airlines. Moved to Europe so FAA stuff was useless to too pricey to convert, got into teaching, but even at 45 I still have the dream alive and kicking. SO if any GA operator looking for a passionate FAA licensed pilot in the UK for their N reg operations, Im your man

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  30. Hey Nancy congrats. You are an inspiration. I always wanted to be a commercial pilot since age 12. Then 9/11 happened and in Trinidad the options are limited and expensive. Changed careers, 5 years in food industry, 12 in Information Technology, currently changing career to go into petroleum engineering. Turned 40 last month. Maybe I will spend 10 years in the oil and gas sector and finally become (wishful thinking) a pilot at 51. Well here I come.

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  37. She FAIKED to tell us the COSTS and how she financed the Pilot Training. Joe Bloggs cannot afford to pursue his aviation aspirations. At 41 years old……I do not know age is a factor. Medical and Rapid Mental Cognivity and Higher Level Mathematics and Physics at least at College Level. Maybe in the US there is no aptitude tests to undertake, to attend Flight School. Starting with a Cessa is scary. Upgrading to the Boeing needs a lot of TOP GUN Skills too. Does she have what it takes apart from blind determination. You got to hv the MONEY to learn how to fly. At 41, I became a CLEANER with Minimum Wage or just below depending. The only Piloting I can do is after I had a bottle of whisky. I can fly to the MOON.

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  38. Congrats Nancy – my dream since i was 14 seeing planes "reverse" in the air & convincing my friends planes can travel backwards and hover..now im in I.T but this gives me great confidence to one day achieve my life long dream of being the sky captain. CONGRATULATIONS 🎉

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  39. So there you are!!!…Congradulations on completing your your training I am so prouf to see you using your new "training device" and I hope ypu can fill us in on how much the "Flight simulator" helped or hindered your training. As a CFII you can see how much home sim setup can help your student pilots…TOOLS NOT TOYS…( its not a game ) Also when you are on the road traveling there are several Joysticks you can cary that dont take up alot of space ( Logitech Exstreme) is agood example and they are cheap too…We missed you and its good to see you … May the force be with you!!! Keep em flappin…… Cya

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  43. Hi Nancy, Congratulations. Yes, quite a long road for you but I saw it coming and I knew that if this is what you wanted that you would make it happen. It's a great time to be hired and you are in demand, although I probably wouldn't want to be commuting nowdays for sure. I've been retired almost 3 years now (most receiently 757/767 as well) but I was your exact age when I was hired by a Major Airline. It was a great career and I am pretty sure that you won't regret it. Enjoy it… It goes by pretty fast!

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  47. Congratulations Nancy! I never took the professional route, got distracted by an equivalent love of computers. I didn’t give up on my flying dream though. My path started with hang gliders, then ultralights, then got my ASEL, then glider, plus I soloed in heli’s. I never owned a plane until I turned 65. My computer career afforded me the opportunity to purchase a TBM (700a), and I now share RVSM space with you guys at every opportunity. I wish you the best in your career, and hope on the rare occasion that I do choose to fly a scheduled airline that you are the pilot!

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