Jason Blair is an active single and multi-engine instructor and an FAA Designated Pilot Examiner with more than 10,000 hours in aircraft as a pilot, flight instructor, and examiner. He has been a pilot since 1992, and since 1999 he has given tests to thousands of pilots for certificates and ratings on behalf of the FAA and worked with pilots who are career-bound aviators. He is engaged with the aviation training industry, its career pilot training pipeline, and the overall aviation training sector in a way that few others are. His passion for aviation training has kept him in this sector of aviation and allows him to help pilots every year along their path to professional pilot careers.

Jason Blair has worked for and continues to work with multiple aviation associations with the work focusing on pilot training and testing. His experience as a pilot includes more than 100 makes and models of aircraft flown.

He has provided aviation training content to many aviation publications, associations, and training product providers. He continues to write for numerous aviation publications with a focus on training and safety.
His years of experience in the training sector offer him a unique perspective on the pilot career track and how to best navigate it from initial efforts to getting hired as a professional pilot. It is this experience that is leveraged to provide the content in this book.