The total needed as projected by the FAA is some 157,500 pilots by the year 2005. Learning to fly an airplane opens the door to several career opportunities. Typically people first think of being an airline pilot. Pilots are needed for a vast variety of special missions from emergency medical evacuation, agricultural spraying, law enforcement, aerial surveying and photography as well as several other general aviation avenues and industrial purposes. There is no certain type of person who becomes a pilot.
Pilots are mothers, aunts, brothers, neighbors, dentists, teachers, and the list goes on.
Some pilots are quiet while others are boisterous. Whatever the case most all pilots have one common theme, their love of flying. So if you think that you have to have a strong background in math and science it is not the truth.