Baton Rouge area pilots need instructor recs NSFW

Rosey de-riveter.

This one was in the IBTC squadron.

Pics 1 & 2: P-40F
Pic 3: Hawker Hurricane
Pic 4: P-61 Black Widow
Pic 5: TBF Avenger

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too short to be eligible to be a pilot in the military.

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How tall are you?

IDK when or who told you that but you're well within the current parameters for all branches.

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5'7" There's a range for pilots, and that's too short from what I was told when I was in HS by recruiters. I think 5'10" is the minimum.

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Maverick ain’t 5’10” so you were given bad info.

Makes a man want to fly United.

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recruiters

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Pricks.

If anything I've heard that one doesn't want to be too tall since the cockpits are often cramped.

Just finished my PPL a few months ago. Don’t have any recs for your area, but my advice is to go with a reputable company that has a good maintenance reputation.

Ask around, network, and do your research. A bad pilot school can make or break you as a pilot as well as your piggy bank.

Find a school that has several planes of the same type that you want to train in. Or at least a good mechanic that keeps the thing healthy.

There are two killers of flight time. Weather (which you can’t do anything about) and broken planes. See to it that you don’t have to fight the second one.

I also recommend flying as much as you can per week. Jobs suck and certainly get in the way of it, but if you can swing the time…shoot for 4 days a week with 2-3 hour lessons.

You’ll retain the info longer and will progress quickly.

Good luck!

ETA: also consider flying with multiple instructors at first. You may be tempted to go with the first one you fly with, but don’t. You’ll be spending a lot of flying hours in the cockpit with this person, so make sure you’re comfortable with them and they know how to teach you to best suit your learning ability.