If you want to become a pilot but you do not have a hint on how to get started then the first piece of advice is to attend a flight training school. There are many flight training schools across the United States so finding a school is not problematic. The aviation industry in the United States is one of the largest industries in the world which functions to transport people and products from one part of the country to another. The biggest aviation market in the world is the United States, which holds almost thirty three percent of scheduled revenue passenger miles. Among all types of work that are done in the aviation industry, the profession of the pilot is considered to be of the highest regard.

Ric Bucklew is a commercial airline pilot who has functioned for four major commercial airliners in the United States. At present he flies the Airbus A320s and A319s all over the country as well as internationally. He is a tremendously brilliant and expert pilot, who has been awarded with the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Awardee, by the president of the United States, Mr. Barack Obama. This award has been given to him as an acknowledgment of his lifetime obligation to constructing a powerful nation through volunteer service and for devoting his life to form an enhanced tomorrow for the nation.

The volunteer work of Ric Bucklew with Alpine Rescue team in Evergreen, Colorado has been featured in the show “Rescue 911”. Apart from this, he served from the year 2003 to 2013 as a federal flight deck officer and has been a part of the comparatively private program that has been made after 9/11 attack which sent excellent pilots through federal law enforcement training and allowed them to utilize lethal power to defend the cockpit of an aircraft from hijacking. Mr. Bucklew has served the aviation industry for more than thirty years and has vast experiences on how the industry actually works.

Even though the career of the pilot is very much lucrative as it is one of the highest paid jobs and because it offers various benefits not only to the employee but also to the family members such as travel benefits. However, people like Ric Bucklew selected this career not to enjoy the exceptional welfares that comes along with it, but for the reason that it is their lust to assist the nation and make it one of the most powerful nations in the world. His services in the airline industry have taken him to more than thirty two countries and gave him the opportunity to live in Denver, Chicago, Naples, Ft. Meyers, Los Angeles, and Florida. Apart from having expertise in flying airplanes, Mr. Bucklew has an understanding about the technology and mechanics of planes. He says that a commercial airline pilots must show excellent management abilities, should converse well with others and have a talent to take decisions fast even in case of emergencies.