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How do you think a person can make money in aviation?  Flight School? Airlines?  Pilot?   Instructor?  Mechanic?  Sales?  Writer?  INsurance?


   You tell us!

I'm not sure if i fully understand the post, I mean for most of us, flying will make us money in aviation, and for most of us, as long as we fly, we are happy, be it flying boxes, people or mail bags. Other than this I do have a thought in my head of opening my own small aviation business. Most likely going to be a float plane outfit, to fly you and your buddies into lakes and the what not for the fishing and the hunting and the such.. I know theres a few like this out there already but always room for more competition i guess.. anyways thats my little two cents worth.

 Nick

The only way I can think of for flight training is to offer something special enough that people will travel to the location to get it.  Career schools get folks to relocate across the country...recurrent training schools like PanAm and others manage to get people to travel to Orlando or Scottsdale and of course folks come to Smyrna for MU training.

I know of some specialized schools around that get people from all over the country...IFR Adventures, sea plane, acclerated courses (good and bad ones) and things like that.

I think the aviation marketplace is a crowded one for the most part.  Many people want to write, work around airplanes, just do anything that is aviation related and the fact that some people are willing to do this for any LOW price makes it hard for others to become interested.

Maybe insurance, but even then most of those people can write other policies in the office so they leverage the cost of running the group...mechanics I do not know about...it seems they could make money, but I know of some that have been laid off due to hours not being flown, due to economy slow downs.

Airlines, well yes if one can actually keep the job and deal with all that travel :-)  

I know I did not help much  :(