How to be a CARGO Pilot! - ️ Flying FedEx vs Airline Pilot Career

I’m unsure if switching over from being a UPS truck driver (sleepers/feeder) would be more or less pay to become a pilot. Maybe, I could just learn to fly a plane ✈️ for personal use

Commercial Pilot in Command, do you want your channel to grow to the highest level with a rather huge audience? If so, perhaps you should avoid at all cost the extra non-sense talking. You need to focus on the subject of flying, not on other businesses within your presentations. You can always do all that at the end of your focussed presentations. You are doing a great job with your tutorials, but you need to consider my honest opinion.

Do you recommend the expensive flight schools?

So according to your pay scale... The top pilot pay is less than starting driver pay

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I pilots life for me

This is what I want to do

Is it a good time to get into this industry?

Would holding a logistics degree help secure cargo jobs at all?

Are there other non pilot jobs that get the jump seats

On a salary of 45K, how is it even possible to afford housing and loan repayments?

Trying to go from Engineering to Flying professionally. The one key thing I am concerned about is the pay. I am hoping the pay for us qualified pilots have gone up since this video.

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LOL... Retired freight dawg here. Be a used car salesman instead. Way more rewarding.

AI is taking over cargo flying soon.

"A Pilot's Life for Me" and I don't care that I'm a woman, I'm gonna effin fly!

You want the best training in the world and a guaranteed pilot job when you get out? Join the Air Force or the Navy.

wait so can i just train at atp?

A Pilot’s Life for Me... Great vid!

So how do I become a pilot for one of those two pathway companies? Am I able to do it right out of school with my 250 hours?

Get on with atlas, or mesa and flow into their dhl 737s… you will be much more hireable for fed ex or ups if you have a 737 type rating than a bunch of single engine turbo-prop time.

Great advice! A pilot’s life for me

I believe the phrase is “boxes don’t bitch” but I commend your professionalism 👍

Pay seems a little low for today's current market. Did they increase the pay by now to stay competitive with other employers?

Aren’t all military pilot fed ex pilots?

Hi is there hiring for foreing pilots holding FAA certifícate ? E mail ?

I have an associates in business. Do I need to get an associates from a flight school as a replacement?

No thanks, I've watched castaway too many times

Really like the video. Clearly explains how to work your way up and it helped me grow my knowledge on cargo aviation. Especially the resume information. This is very helpful for someone like me about to jump into it working full time in the aviation industry.

I make 78k with a 2yr nursing degree. Crazy how pilots have to grovel in the mud to get a good job.

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Hey bro that dashboard looks kind of high, are the seats pretty adjustable?

Seth - you did an excellent job explaining the process/requirements for applying to the feeder freight carriers, but you may have confused your viewers by implying this is a direct path to FedEx. It’s not. I can tell you as a previous Part 135 feeder freight pilot (Chieftan/Beech 99/Metro III) and a current FedEx B777 Captain, FedEx does not give preferential hiring to Mountain Air or Empire pilots. Yes, the company is developing the Purple Runway program. But with so many highly qualified pilots in the application pool, I can’t imagine this being a source of pilots in the foreseeable future.
To be completely honest, and I can say this because I was a feeder freight pilot for 3+ years, Part 135 feeder freight flying is the bottom of the barrel in the aviation industry. There is absolutely nothing glamorous about it. You fly very old, marginally maintained aircraft with “steam” gauges, often in the middle of the night, with no autopilot. Does it have a place in building an aviation career? Absolutely. I reached the pinnacle of my aviation skills as a Metro III pilot flying single pilot, 5 legs a night w/o an autopilot. But in reality, feeder freight is a stepping stone to the commuter industry, not a direct path to FedEx, UPS, or the Majors. Had I not left for a commuter airline based in ORD and become a Captain and instructor, FedEx would have never hired me.
There are lots of paths to FedEx. Some faster than others. If someone has an opportunity to fly feeder freight, great. Do it for about a year. Log some turbine and/or multi engine time. Sharpen your IFR skills. Then run (don’t walk) to the commuters. You’ll build flight time faster and get paid substantially more. Some are even offering signing bonuses. And more importantly, you’ll be flying jets with glass cockpits, flight management computers, and some with HUDs- making you far more marketable than your feeder freight brethren. My 2 cents.
Best wishes in your aviation career.

Awesome vid@

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How easy is it to go from FedEx express driver position to go to the training school and start a career as a pilot? My fiancé is looking into this!

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The part that made me subscribe is when you said:" hey,boxes don't complain" took me out hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahhhahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh !!We know damn well what you meant by that !!!

It’s nice to see these videos here! I don’t have the chance to talk to FedEx pilots, so I just want to ask the general public here…Is the ANC base super senior? What’s the likelihood I could get it as a newhire? Both for Empire and for the MD-11 base.

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Is it too late for me in my early 30s to start flying from the beginning to one day being a 777 cargo pilot?

I REALLY appreciate the video and information.

So, you mentioned "achieve your dream," what would be the "average" cargo pilot's goal? I've been contemplating between airline and cargo (married man and I'm currently in 4-year university for flight) and cargo seems the way to go for me (I live near a metropolitan city, but I know it's where the company requires bodies).

The scheduling doesn't bother me because I have never worked a job that was weekends/holidays off, it's more for my wife so more questions below. =D

I keep hearing that night scheduling is most common for cargo which is a turn-off along with extended scheduling (1-2 weeks no days off), would you say that is true (I know you mentioned the split shifts and weekends off).

Wonder why the 2 year degree is a mandatory thing.

If I get a degree in pottery that makes me eligible compared to someone who doesn't have that, huh?

Can they really afford to be that picky? Getting the hours and licencing is expensive as it is. And you want to tack on another 50k as a hiring preference?

No wonder there's a massive pilot shortage. They're about to kill off the industry with this kind of poor decision making.

What company did you start with? I am about to take my commerical check ride and would love to fly cargo.

I worked for Empire for 5 years. You have a better chance getting on with Fedex working at a major Airline. Yeah they say there’s a guaranteed interview but it’s a separate interview compared with regular candidates just to check the box off. A very and I mean very small margin of people get to Fedex from these Feeder airlines. In fact for every new hire pilot at one of his feeders Fedex has to pay to train so they would be cannibalizing themselves if they took a pilot from the feeder. My experience with intermingling with most Fedex pilots when I was working for Empire was they looked down at “feeder trash“. Disclosures I never wanted to go to fedex nor did I try to interview. I’ve since moved one through a regional and now a major airline.

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Hi CPIC, appreciated the video since i am currently looking into this. Recently turned 42, but have been a comm.instru, both single, multi, and single complex add on when i was around 23 ish, of age at the time, but ran out of money, and 911 happen which caused a hiring freeze all over the place. Ended up switching careers to IT, make pretty decent money yea, but its not a top passion of mine, flying is. I recently looking into a univ which offers pre- atp with limitations upon course degree completion, i am looking into completing my degree program as well, which too ran of funds at the time. Realistically, i am more concerned with aging out, and looking at one of the Air Feeder services which builds you up for FedEx, would this be an issue if by chance you have knowledge of this? Thanks and appreciate your response.

I wanted to be part of aviation someday I just want to ask if I can be a Cargo pilot or Charter pilot while holding my CPL/IR to build flight hours and save money for taking my ATP license? Also is there a chance that I can be a commercial airline pilot with a commercial pilot license, type rating, instrument rating, and multi-engine instrument rating? Without ATP? thank you very much Capt! your reply will be fully appreciated.