avi8tor1983
Well-Known Member
A year post ATP got me thinking. I finished up at ATP (GKY) in May of 2007. I did do the CFI, CFII and MEI there. So I thought i'd tell a little of my story. May 2007 worked at a CFI gig in Denton, TX until February of 2008. I got hired on to Trans States. May 2008 FURLOUGH! Lovely right? Back to teaching. Taught at a University 141 Program until Aug. 2009. Laid off due to lack of students and my "Senior Instructor/Stage Check Airman" status costing the university to much to employ me. Since I wasn't a graduate of the college I along with 3 other 1100 hour dual given pilots were let go. October 2008 I went to Flight Express. I won't mention all the things wrong with that place. I'll just say gear failures happen quite often. Left there. December 2008. My first real interview with a Air Ambulance/Charter company. I'll know more about that come the end of the month but was baisiclly told I would be hired. They just have other interviewies to deal with. So since ATP. Thats life in aviation right there.
I'll put this out there. I'm over 1400 TT with over 300 ME. Not real high time, not real low time. What i've come across just totally boggles my mind. Since October I have been constantly looking for jobs. Here is what i've noticed. I am to high time for a CFI job. Everywhere that I have applied has not called me back or when they do they say they have chosen another. I have had 3 CP's tell me that the reason they don't want to hire me is because they are afraid i'd run off to an airline as soon as they pick back up! Think about it. Isn't that and the learning experiance what every CFI is out there for? The Charter company I am (crossing my fingers) currently persuing is another example. The CP sits me down to interview. Shows me a stack of resumes, there must of been 500 of them. Pulls one out with a guy with 17,000 hours. He says to me. I can't hire these ex 121 guys. They are to high time and they will take a jet job in a heart beat. Also they are so used to a glass cockpit they don't remember what steam gauge IFR is all about.
So here is my beef and my question. If a 1400 hour guy is to high time for a CFI gig and when the airlines start back up will be to low time for that. Where is he supposed to go in the meantime? Thats my rant and my question. If anyone has any insight into this please let me know. Cheers...:beer:
Forgive the spelling, i'm horrible at it and spell check didn't work lol
I'll put this out there. I'm over 1400 TT with over 300 ME. Not real high time, not real low time. What i've come across just totally boggles my mind. Since October I have been constantly looking for jobs. Here is what i've noticed. I am to high time for a CFI job. Everywhere that I have applied has not called me back or when they do they say they have chosen another. I have had 3 CP's tell me that the reason they don't want to hire me is because they are afraid i'd run off to an airline as soon as they pick back up! Think about it. Isn't that and the learning experiance what every CFI is out there for? The Charter company I am (crossing my fingers) currently persuing is another example. The CP sits me down to interview. Shows me a stack of resumes, there must of been 500 of them. Pulls one out with a guy with 17,000 hours. He says to me. I can't hire these ex 121 guys. They are to high time and they will take a jet job in a heart beat. Also they are so used to a glass cockpit they don't remember what steam gauge IFR is all about.
So here is my beef and my question. If a 1400 hour guy is to high time for a CFI gig and when the airlines start back up will be to low time for that. Where is he supposed to go in the meantime? Thats my rant and my question. If anyone has any insight into this please let me know. Cheers...:beer:
Forgive the spelling, i'm horrible at it and spell check didn't work lol