Careers that a pilot license would come in handy

Question

what careers BESIDES pilot would come in handy to have a pilot license. I do not mean engineer or anything like that...I mean like reporter or business consultant (those are just examples) but the question is what career would it help to have a pilot's license in? Do you think a freelance career would need it more? Just please help with those 2 questions. Thanks! I will reward best answer!

Answer 1

delivering pizza, baggin groceries, gas attendant! kidding, but at least they have some openings!

Answer 2

Any job dealing with kids - maybe teachers.  Also any job where safety is key, since being a pilot is so much tied to being safe.

Oh, and in the U.S., it's a Certificate.  It's only a license to learn.  I have one....

Answer 3

Well, like you said, other than being a pilot which you are obviously paid to fly... any career that really follows the phrase "time is money" that might require a lot of traveling.  If your business would serve you best to have you in Washington for lunch and New York for Dinner time, having your own pilot's license (and access to a plane) would be helpful.

Answer 4

People in the following professions commonly become pilots and buy personal airplanes in order to travel at their own convenience: salesman, aerial photographers, real estate agents, insurance adjusters, businessmen, doctors in remote areas, missionaries, roving news people, wildlife specialists, weather chasers (meterologists), musicians, sports players, wildlife specialists. In other words, anyone with financial means and a need to travel according to their own schedule or where owning their own airplane is the most efficient and economical way to do their job and / or cover a lot of territory. People who make a living in remote or wilderness areas and have no other easy means to get to a town for various needs (Alaska is a good example) often learn to fly. Many people who work in big cities but don't want to live in or near a city often commute by plane too.  Given these reasons, you can probably come up with hundreds of other examples.  

Answer 5

bush pilot

hollywood actor  

Answer 6

Sales people and consultants find personal aviation a very powerful tool if they are in a market in which their fee structure covers the cost.  Of course you have to be covering a territory large enough to justify the cost.  I know a sales person who handles specialized steel castings and makes several hundred thousand dollars a year in commissions.  He covers the East Coast from Georgia to New York State, and uses his Cessna Skymaster at least once a week and usually more often.

I know a consultant who installs special equipment at veterinary clinics and animal hospitals all over the Mid-Atlantic states.  She spends a lot of time doing workshops and training seminars for veterinarians, and sometimes has to be in places like Atlanta one day and Louisville the next.  She flies a Beechcraft Travel Air and could not work without it.

Of course you have to keep in mind that it is against the law for a Private Pilot to be compensated for piloting services, so you have to set up the books so that it is clear that your job/company pays for the aircraft costs but does not pay you anything.  Consult a CPA about exactly how to do this.  It is complicated, and people have gotten into trouble with the FAA for not keeping good records.

Finally, neither of these people or the hundreds like them who use an airplane as a working tool could manage without an instrument rating and lots of safety seminars and constant reading about safety.  You have to be very grown up to succeed and survive.

Maybe those stories will give you some ideas.  "Been dere" also gives a good list, above.

Good luck!