Should Professional Pilots Pursue Advanced Training?

Should Professional Pilots Pursue Advanced Training?

The question of whether or not you, as a professional pilot, should pursue advanced training may seem like it’s up for debate. If you have a sufficient rating to go out and start looking for work, why waste time adding unnecessary ratings that you may never need to use in your daily life as a pilot? It seems cut and dry. But stop and think for a second. Do you want a bare minimum job? Do you want a bare minimum life? We didn’t think so. Upper Limit Aviation (1-855-HELIEDU) believes that professional pilots who only ever pursue the bare minimum, are likely only to ever see the bare minimum rewards of life as a pilot.

How is Advanced Training Useful to Professional Pilots?

Don’t get us wrong, the bare minimum of life available to a pilot may still allow you to get up into the air and fly for a living every day -- and that’s hard to beat! But, with so many opportunities available to new pilots who are willing to put in the work, why stop there? Obtaining advanced ratings will tell your future employer that you’re the kind of worker who is driven to success and motivated to pursue excellence at all turns. Employers look for that kind of initiative when they are seeking the very best pilots for the most desirable jobs. Ultimately, extra training equals extra knowledge. Professional pilots with knowledge and experience who are prepared for any situation will always beat out the bare minimum pilot when it comes to finding a good job.

Upper Limit Aviation has a reputation in this industry for training pilots to a high degree of excellence. We fiercely maintain that reputation by focusing our efforts on producing the best pilot we can. We believe that when our graduates leave, they are the calling card that bears our name throughout their careers. Pilots who come back for extra training will demonstrate this commitment to excellence by showing up to work more skilled and more prepared than their colleagues. If you would like to find out how Upper Limit Aviation can help you make the most out of your abilities, then call 1-855-HELIEDU today. Our admissions personnel can help you determine your eligibility for financial assistance as well as to guide you on which steps to take next.

Training Opportunities for International Students

International Student Flight Training Opportunities

Upper Limit Aviation is an American company, but we recognize that the aviation community is part of an international industry. As we, along with other sources, have observed, the aviation industry is at a critical mass of available jobs right now. The pilot shortage facing our industry is unprecedented. We must take all steps available in order to start filling some of these jobs. Our students are regularly recruited to fill some of the top positions in industry-leading companies. Recruiters from many companies will regularly call Upper Limit Aviation to ask about our recent graduates, and can we possibly send any of our best and brightest their way.

The opportunities that we’re discussing are not limited to one region, and they’re not even limited simply to the United States. There are jobs available all over the world, in both the fixed-wing and helicopter areas of the global aviation industry. Whether you want to work in the Gulf of Mexico or the Persian Gulf, on either side of the Atlantic or the Pacific, there is work available all over the world. Industry insiders are forecasting continued expansion for at least the next five years, which is why Upper Limit Aviation is going to be pursuing an initiative to attract students from all over the world to our three flight training campuses.

Opportunities for International Students to Pursue Flight Training

We believe that our flight training program is the best program that we could put together. We have a reputation for excellence within our industry. Upper Limit Aviation has continued to expand along with the rising demand for fixed-wing and helicopter pilots all over the world. Over the next few months and beyond, we are preparing to launch a program to enlist students from all over the globe to take part in our program. International students will come to one of our three campuses, in West Memphis, AR, Salt Lake City, UT or Cedar City, UT, and receive our high quality flight training.

To learn more about how international students can help us close the gap in the international pilot shortage, call 1-855-HELIEDU.

Deciding to Begin Flight Training

Flight Training: The Most Important Decision You’ll Ever Make

Every pilot has a day when he or she realizes that choosing to pursue flight training would go down as one of the pivotal decisions in his or her lifetime. Life demands that most of us must work for a living. If we are lucky, work will be the thing that we do second or third most, after spending time with our family and sleeping. Some of us may have one or a few jobs for a very long time, while others will have many jobs, bouncing around from place to place. A job is what we spend our days doing. A job is composed of tasks and duties that must be performed. A career, on the other hand, is our life’s work. It is what we spend years and decades doing. It is composed of memories and friendships and challenges and rewards and massive transformations, and it is how many of us define ourselves. Ask a pilot what he does. “I am a pilot,” he or she will reply. Flight training is what gave him or her an answer to that question.

Upper Limit Aviation is in the career business. We help pilots get their start doing what they will do for the rest of their lives. Many of our students feel as if they were born knowing that they were destined to one day fly a fixed-wing aircraft or a helicopter for a living. Others among our ranks were inspired by their own military service, or the example of a mentor or family friend. Whatever brings a student to our school, we make sure that he or she is a pilot, through and through, when he or she leaves flight training.

Upper Limit Aviation Helps Pilots Become Pilots Through Flight Training

There are many articles on this website that will tell you what a terrific time it is to become a pilot. Or how many different sorts of wonderful careers there are for professional pilots who complete flight training. Or explain how the Post 9/11 GI Bill works. All of those articles are full of true and enlightening information, and you should absolutely refer to them in order to learn more detailed information about the flight training program at Upper Limit Aviation.

This article is not full of facts or statistics or prognostications. This article is here to tell you that if you feel like we feel, that if you want to answer the question ‘What do you do?’ by saying, ‘I am a pilot,’ then come and join us. We understand you and can help you do what you love for a living for the rest of your life.

Call 1-855-HELIEDU to learn more.