Career retrospective of a Lost Generation pilot

My career is somewhat typical of the Lost Generation of pilots. After flying and flight instructing for fun for several years, I decided to change careers soon after getting married. I took a job at a large aviation training academy in Florida that had a reputation for providing pilots to the airlines. It was late June 2001.

Scarcely two months into my new job, I watched the recorded crashes of American Airlines Flight 11 and United Airlines Flight 175 into the two towers of the World Trade Center. The FAA ordered all civilian airplanes grounded for several days after the four hijackings on September 11. Since I didn’t get paid unless I flew, I felt the effects of the attacks almost immediately in my paycheck.

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