My Flying Career

This blog is for friends, family, and other pilot-career-aspiring people out there who want to follow me on my journey to becoming a Professional Pilot.

My name is John Kelly, I am 22 years old and have always dreamed of eventually becoming a professional pilot. Over the past few years I have earned my Private Pilot’s License(Single-Engine & Multi-Engine) and Instrument Rating. I fly out of Salem’s McNary Field(KSLE) and am attending Hillsboro Aviation to continue my flight training.

I hope you enjoy reading my blog and am open to comments and advice.

To see my current plan, visit the My Plan page.

Well…I signed the loan and told my work that I would be going to flight school on April 1st.  No turning back now! I’m so excited I haven’t been able to sleep well (or that could be the massive amounts of coffee I drink at work).  This is something I have dreamed of ever since I was a kid and now it is becoming a reality.

Now it is true that the aviation economy is not at it’s high point.  But I think of it this way; Treat the aviation economy like the stock market.  Buy low and sell high.  Well, it’s hard to think of it getting any worse that it is now; so I figure it can only get better. Right?

A little about myself.  I am 22 years old and am married to the most wonderful woman ever (she would have to be to put up with my aviation craze).  Over the past few years I have earned my Private Pilot’s Certificate and my Instrument Rating add on from flight instructors at my local airport.  I believe this to be the most inexpensive and efficient way to start out.  More on that later…

The flight school I have chosen is Hillsboro Aviation out of Hillsboro, Oregon.  Many factors have come in to play when choosing this school and after literally a year of researching, my choice is clear.  Since this is more of an introductory post, I will not go too much into detail, but don’t worry, I will lay out my reasoning and research in future posts(so stay tuned ).

One last thing…the point of this blog is give other pilot-career-aspiring folks out there a chance to hopefully educate themselves from my mistakes and maybe even right choices every now and then.  I, in no way, consider myself a good writer, so you will have to bear with it.  But I will do my best.