What jobs are useful with a pilot license?

Question

what jobs other than a pilot are there that it would be useful to have a private pilot's license? Like for EXAMPLE: a reporter. It could be useful to fly place to place on your own. What other jobs are there?

Answer 1

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.  Good luck!

Answer 2

the way you ask your question... what Jobs are useful?? Jobs that earn a lot of gas money for your flying habit!!

Answer 3

ummmmmm pilot?

Answer 4

Aircraft Mechanic?? don know if you studied it in your flying school or an aircraft handler i mean the on who despatches aircraft out and in at the Airport