Can't be blind or deaf. Earnings of airline pilots are among the highest in the Nation. A pilot must be a least a high school graduate To receive a pilots' license you must be 18 years old, have 190 hrs. Also between 40 and 50 hours of instrument flying is required. The Armed Forces have always been an important source of trained pilots for civilian jobs, persons without armed forces training also become pilots by attending flight schools.
Pilots fly people and cargo from place to place.
Planes have computers and many other machines to tell pilots if their trip is going according to plan.