Hi, I’m currently 17 and I’m still studying on how to become a pilot and I want to join flight school in January 2026. But the issue is, I don’t know how my parents will react. They’re really conservative/slightly misogynistic people. They don’t even let me drive a car and I don’t know how they’ll react if I tell them that I want to become a pilot. There might be like oh you’re going to crash the plane and unalive yourself. Or they’ll say that you can’t be traveling around the world without somebody taking care of you what if like somebody unalives you blah blah blah… I know none of this is really ought to happen but they just think that way and I feel like that’s gonna be their response and they’re gonna shut me off. It’s really sad cause it’s not like my parents can’t afford to send me to pilot school. I could literally go to pilot school and not have to pay a single dollar in debt but yeah, I feel like if I tell them about my plans without having personal funding, they’re just going to shut me off and try to make sure that I can never go to flight school so I want to make a plan on how to pay for my own flight school and my own licenses before I tell them and I wanna tell them last minute right before I leave for flight school (I’m planning to do it in a different country).

I have no idea where I can take a loan out from nor do I have any idea where I can apply for scholarships if those even exist in this case scenario. I’m trying really hard to get a job and do freelancing, but I don’t know if that’ll be enough.

Please give me any advice on how you made it through flight school and how you paid for all of this stuff. Note: I’m not American. I’m from South Asia.