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Other Voices: Playing the Pandemic Roulette
A young flight instructor ponders the pandemic's effect on his career as a pilot while remaining hopeful about the future.

At the end of 2018, several of my close friends and I were newly minted flight instructors at Arlington Municipal Airport in Texas. Having earned our CFI, CFII, and MEI certificates, we were ready to mold the minds of future aviators—and to begin discussing which regional airlines we would move to once we’d logged 1,500 flight hours.

One of our group voiced a preference for an airline that he said offered the largest signing bonus. Another picked a carrier because of its operating bases, which suggested to her that she stood a good chance of being based locally right away as a first officer.

Will Desrochers
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