Career Pilot
Career Success Stories
Career success stories serve two vital roles. Any time you are working toward a goal, learning about the success of others who recently attained the same objective can be inspirational and a source of motivation. But knowing how somebody achieved that goal can be equally helpful to you. Their experience may give you some great ideas about how you can plot a course to the career that you desire.
These successful experiences of others may give you some great ideas for ways you can differentiate yourself from other well-qualified pilots who also are applying at the company you’d most like to fly for. Find out how they built enough flight time to meet hiring requirements, or developed relationships with professional pilots that led to hiring recommendations.
Read these success stories:
- Jason DuVernay, CRJ first officer
- Mark Nolen, Boeing 737 first officer
- Eliot Tada, first officer, Comair
- Kristin Koll, corporate pilot
- Bob Feher, Boeing 777 first officer
- Brendan Donovan, corporate pilot
- Ming Tran, first officer, Piedmont Airlines
- Mike Powers, commercial pilot, Comair
- Adam Walsh, Pilatus PC-12 captain
- Steve McMorrow, Boeing 737 first officer
- Paul Lucken, Boeing 737 first officer
- Byron Hixon, CEO and chief pilot
- Reggie Norsworthy, commercial pilot, Comair
- Danilo Dubon, NetJets
- John Gemelli, first officer, American Eagle
- Saman Khosravi, first officer, Express Jet
- Ffloyd Forster, first officer, American Eagle
AOPA has compiled a list of articles to help get you started:
