Just Want to Fly

lae4288

lae4288

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Hey guys - any ideas? I just want to fly just like everyone else... but no luck with this new 1500 hr rule with the regionals. Now everyone is staying at their CFI job to build time - I'm scared if I invested the money into getting my CFI I wouldn't be able to get a CFI job anyways. I've applied to about 75 charter, cargo, sky dive, etc companies. Nothing.

Commercial Multi, Instrument
315.1 TT
81.0 ME
28.0 B737 Level D Sim
20.0 CRJ200 Level C Sim

FCC Radio Operator's License
ATP Written
A & P License
United Airlines Internship
Two Bachelor Degrees

Thank You!
 
But I already have a six figure debt amount, I'm just scared of getting the CFI, and ending up at square one again - no jobs available because they are taken since everyone is building time with their CFI... I also have exhausted private bank loans, govt loans. So.. I'm pretty much stuck.
 
If the CFI jobs are hard to come by, the other low time jobs will be that much harder to find. It's not impossible, but CFI is actually the easier route to employment.
 
Shiner said:
If the CFI jobs are hard to come by, the other low time jobs will be that much harder to find. It's not impossible, but CFI is actually the easier route to employment.
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You can ALWAYS find people that own aircraft and need BFRs/insurance instruction/etc. Didn't take me long to find more students than I had time for.

If you can find your own students, it is a pretty easy thing to talk a flight school owner into letting you teach at their school. At the end of the day, they won't turn away free money.

There should really be a section on sales in the FOI- that skill alone is the biggest factor for success being a CFI.
 
Well in Florida it's tough - especially in the ERAU area - everyone and their mother are trying to get students.

What is everyone's prediction with this 1500 hr rule? changes? stay in place?
 
I did that same internship back when it was CAL, in 08. I have 1900TT/80ME they still wont call me. Get your time up with your CFI and then get your MEI and start flying twins!
 
And BTW, CFI can be done for (almost) nothing. Ride is with the Feds (free), there are zero required flight hours. Spin endorsement is the only flying you really need to do

Take two writtens, and if you ask nice, plenty of folks that will help you get it done here (including me). Just don't be the troll that says here "I don't want to be a CFI - give me job!"
 
I am currently in Port Orange. And I totally expect to "pay my dues" "do my time" whatever... I am not one to expect everything to be handed to me like some kids.
 
Leave that sim stuff off your resume if you're applying to skydiving, towing and survey places and such. It looks ridiculous and, the employers I've worked for would just laugh and skip. That A & P should come in super handy though.
 
A&P is your meal ticket. All kinds of interesting backroads of aviation you can get in to with an A&P and a wet commercial. Sure, more than likely you'll do more wrenching than flying to start out, but you'll also have eventual access to jobs that guys like me with lots of time and experience don't have access to. Cool jobs, too. Think outside the Hydraulic Box.
 
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