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13 Years in the Making by Grant Boyd
Scott Gerszewski was featured in the February 2006 issue of Twin & Turbine magazine, where he penned the article “NBAA Through the Eyes of a 12-Year-Old.”
In the story, the precocious aviation-obsessed pre-teen talked about the cool aircraft he saw at the business avia- tion show and his hopes for a career in the cockpit.
“As long as I can remember I have always loved airplanes. Ever since I was a little boy, machines that could cruise in the air at 31,000 feet and more than 300 knots have been just amazing to me,” is how Gerszewski began his published essay on the joys of flight and what his future could look like.
Now, he is flying Airbus A330s for a major airline on international routes. Along the way to his recent transition
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to the airlines, he worked as a pilot for a corporate flight department for five years – an opportunity that he forged by building connections in the industry, starting when he was young. What has Gerszewski been up to for the last 17 years, and what advice does he have for youngsters hoping to become professional pilots?
“From a schooling standpoint, I did a combination of part 141 and 61 flight schools. Pretty standard training in that aspect. But outside of that, I was always really passionate about aviation and had a good support system at home and a family that liked flying. I also stayed involved with annual airshows and trade shows. It’s a very unknown secret that students can get great discounts on tickets to most of those events, and so I would attend those as often as I could.”