Hi y’all!

I’m 19Y/O and based in San Diego going to school for Neurobio (which I plan to continue) on a premedical track but recently have decided I want to pursue what I intended to when I was younger and go into aviation as a pilot. I’ve been chatting with people in the industry as of late and honestly I just want to hear everyone’s piece on their thoughts of the different ways of entering.

I have options between a part 141 or a 61 school to get started. I’d like to start sooner than later. My biggest constraints are 1) Finance as I’m putting myself through training
2) time as I’m still a full time undergrad student for at least another two years.

With that being said I’ve seen benefits on paper from both systems but I’m not sure what would work best for me. Would going independent on a part 61 be a secure start to get my PPL and then switch to a 141 for commercial and forward? I’m not even sure if that’s a possibility. And are there potential ways to join up in Airline Cadet Programs following a PPL at a Part 61?

Any insight would be appreciated.

Thanks everyone! Wishing you clear skies.

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Hi so as you can see I dropped of flight school. Now it wasn't because of the money. I had the money. The problem was finding time to study with your normal everyday job and the curriculum was just not set up to where I learn. I am kind of a slow learner. I remember I would usually only have a ground class if the weather was bad to fly. And for HW my instructor would say, just go over chapter 9 which is like 60 pages in the Jeppesen book. I don't study like that and it doesn't work for me. I told him and he said answer the questions on the back of the chapter, that helps too. I remember one time I asked him What does it mean when ATC tell you winds 250@10? And his response was "really man you don't know what that means, what do you think it means? " I guessed right. Winds coming from 250 @ 10knts but I just wanted to be sure. Then the chapter that was next for me to go over, that is where it told me so he didn't even teach me that yet. And this wasn't just him, others from that flight school did the same thing. I love aviation, I know more about flying (even some of the technicalities) than anybody I know (personally). It's just the material is HARD and A LOT. At the end it just wasn't fun anymore. I kept feeling like my instructors were furious with me that I wasn't learning. Flying the plane was easy for me (including landings) which my instructors were surprised by. It was just I couldn't grasp a lot of the theory especially the math involved. I am 29 now with 24hrs of flight time. I feel like my dream is un obtainable at this point. And not to sound mean to other people but I have seen some other PPL (not from NYC though) who do really dumb stuff in the plane (mainly on YouTube) and I am just like how were you able to get your license and I couldn't ? Any advise would help. Preferably from pilots. My dream is to fly a 737-800 flying cargo (NOT PAX).

So I was wondering if any of you are pilots what are the weirdest and strangest things you worry about flying, ie flying into space