meritflyer
Well-Known Member
I know that CFIing is the best way to an airline job. However, if you could say there was another route that was not looked down on, what would it be?
Any other way to an Airline Job?
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Chris_Ford
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meritflyer said:
I talked to a guy who never CFId but got his hours ferrying planes and doing whatever odd jobs he could come across. Took him a lot longer (5-8 years to get to a regional, I think), but it was possible. It'll just be a lot more work.
rickyrhodesii
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J-Wec said:
yeah, well that's one way. but, by the time you serve out your 10 year commission...you're half way to retirement!
mtsu_av8er
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I fly a 206 and a couple of twins pretty regularly. If you like, I'll sell you PIC time for $10/hour.
Not a bad deal!!!!
Not a bad deal!!!!
B767Driver
New Member
I was never eligible for a military flying career because my eyes were less than 20/20 uncorrected. However, if I were a young person with the requisite qualifications...I would definitely be scouting a military career as a way to learn to fly.
If you can score a freight gig...or some part 135 charter...that would be a good move as well.
If you can score a freight gig...or some part 135 charter...that would be a good move as well.
Chris_Ford
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mtsu_av8er said:
Including the aircraft? That's a deal, folks!
ComplexHiAv8r
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mtsu_av8er said:
IS THIS PFT??????
mtsu_av8er
Well-Known Member
Chris_Ford said:
I know it! All you have to do is come on out to Tennessee!!!!
No, it's not - at all! Come on down, and you get to fly the airplane! If you're rated in the airplane, you get the PIC! As an CFI, CFII and MEI, I'll be sitting in the right seat the entire time. As long as you have a commercial, Instrument, Multi, and High Performance Endorsement (all of which I can provide you with - for a fee), you can fly these trips!
These are REAL commercial flights, which are done with REAL customers! You'll get to see what it's like to keep a schedule, do weight and balance, all of the real pilot stuff!!
You will have to pay for your own food, hotels during trips, etc.
Not PFT at all!!!
Chris_Ford
Well-Known Member
J-Wec said:
Um... You've clearly never seen the picture of the 152 going through the shockwave. :nana2:
falconvalley
Absentee Dad of the OOTSK, Runner, Cat Frustrator
rickyrhodesii said:
Yeah, but straight out of college, at 22 plus 2 years for OTS/AMS and UPT puts you 34ish for the ten year committment. That leaves at least 25 good years if you go 121 after that. More if you fly other than 121.
falconvalley
Absentee Dad of the OOTSK, Runner, Cat Frustrator
B767Driver said:
Isn't that a bunch of amateur medicine BS?? You know what the latest regs are for initial pilot? 20/200 correctable to 20/20. But that isn't good enough...I have 20/10 in one eye and 20/15 in the other and I got DQd for excessive refractive error. For those who are unfamiliar, refractive error is eyesight without the ability to focus on something. All that means is I'm probably going to need glasses as I get older. That's all it means. And that's disqualifying. Air Force aviators are allowed to wear glasses and get surgery AND now they're sending newbies to pilot training after refractive surgery and expanding what's allowed every few years. I'm farsighted, too, so refractive surgery won't help me. Good thing is, as the AF gets more and more desperate to bring in good pilots, they loosen the requirements. I'm interviewing again this year and getting my slot back and THIS time I'm not doing it alone. I'm gonna make sure the AF knows that my Wing is losing a potentially great officer if they let me down again.
Timmypig
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J-Wec said:
And the chance to eat an AA-11 or SA-8 or 20 rounds of 37mm for your country. If you want to serve your country (and other countries like mine who rely to a degree upon our 'strategic big brother') then join up and serve ... if you just want to be a pilot look elsewhere.
This is potentially a useful very thread. I wish people would stop thinking of intruction in terms of what it can do for the instructor. Unless an instructor is willing to do the right thing by his or students every time he or she should do something else. OK OK everyone has to make a living but instruction's too important to be done by 'time servers'.
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blee256
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You can
1.) banner tow
2.) fly traffic watch
3.) fly skydivers
4.) pipeline patrol
5.) tow gliders
there are a lot of other options. Just CFI'ing is the most common. there is always those super expense, unnecessary, waste of money, pos, bridge programs that some schools offer, but I wouldnt recommend them.
1.) banner tow
2.) fly traffic watch
3.) fly skydivers
4.) pipeline patrol
5.) tow gliders
there are a lot of other options. Just CFI'ing is the most common. there is always those super expense, unnecessary, waste of money, pos, bridge programs that some schools offer, but I wouldnt recommend them.
B767Driver
New Member
Timmypig said:
Is the student prepared to pay another $30 to $40 per hour to keep the instructor around for a career?
mtsu_av8er
Well-Known Member
IFly85 said:
LOL . . . nobody seems to want to take me up on the offer! I'm being dead serious! I have Trips to Atlanta, about 6 trips to Memphis, a couple trips to Hilton Head . . . lots of things on the schedule!
It's only $10 per hour, folks!!!:rawk:
AlexF
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I'll tell you what, you get my the rest of my IR, Com, and ME for $10/hr for the plane (a new, good, high quality plane), and $10/hr for the instructor (a used, good quality, not high instructor), and I'll fly down there and stay as long as humanly possible.mtsu_av8er said:
