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Maybe, good times currently for pilots looking to move up. The OP is concerned about the ticket, maybe overly so but I would council my son to do the same in his position. Every and any demerit you have to own up to or note on an application puts the chance you will not be considered at risk...

Anyone buying or renting to build time begs the question; why? If you are building toward flying professionally than 25 hours mulitengine is the going rate for most/all regional airlines. Corporate, would vary and getting a job would most likely be acquired by way of time and effort networking...

Like the previous post, get a lawyer and plea a deal. I agree that getting the prosecutor to see how this may affect your career would be the best bet. If not, then the same with the judge. The lawyer will be the key, I think. Choose wisely.

For those reading this thread, do not make decisions related to whether you are, or are not, medically fit to receive an airmen's certificate based on advise from anonymous forum posters. They made be totally right, but you should not risk a career decision based on opinions here. The poster...

To the OP, or anyone else looking to start flying with the same basic questions. The biggest unknown that you can't totally control (at least in the beginning) is the honesty, ethics and ability of both the flight school and the instructor that teaches you. At some level you are going to have to...

And I should have added, that a club environment with members that are instructors, would almost certainly be the best bet for a 61 student to find instructors that are not just building time. I applaud any flight school that sets a high bar (under 61) when they aren't required to by law. As for...

My son is currently working as a CFI at a schools that works with a local college with an aviation program. He is teaching primary 141 but does some 61. Had he expressed interest at 16 to become an airline pilot I would have without question, sent him to a university with a four year aviation...