AZUL all female crew

I would also stay in the US, but as far as airlines goes you may have better chances in Brazil, especially with a fresh CPL and 250-300 hours. Here there are very few regional aircrafts, only one company has ERJs, few have turbo props like ATRs, and they are flown by senior Captains due to the fact they operate in difficult airports. Getting on a B737 (webjet hires 737 FOs with 500 hours TT) is pretty easy and then you have the door open to bigger stuff and intl flying in (5-6 years), and if you live Brazil you will have a ton of opportunities then with 2000-3000 hours flying an ERJ145 with half of the US pilot population with a resume like yours you won`t have.

If you can stand the life standards downgrade and the low salaries then you should try it....
 
swisspilot said:
I would also stay in the US, but as far as airlines goes you may have better chances in Brazil, especially with a fresh CPL and 250-300 hours. Here there are very few regional aircrafts, only one company has ERJs, few have turbo props like ATRs, and they are flown by senior Captains due to the fact they operate in difficult airports. Getting on a B737 (webjet hires 737 FOs with 500 hours TT) is pretty easy and then you have the door open to bigger stuff and intl flying in (5-6 years), and if you live Brazil you will have a ton of opportunities then with 2000-3000 hours flying an ERJ145 with half of the US pilot population with a resume like yours you won`t have.

If you can stand the life standards downgrade and the low salaries then you should try it....
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standard of living is all relative. do I NEED my big TV? absolutely not. I'll have to evaluate the situation when the time comes
 
elmetal said:
standard of living is all relative. do I NEED my big TV? absolutely not. I'll have to evaluate the situation when the time comes
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This was my same mindset, but after living for a while here I start missing a lot of things of the US. Yes you don`t need the latest iphone, a big TV (well at least that is cheap here, they make them in the Amazon..no I`m not joking), a nice big car....but you have to work a lot here to save up money, you need to work so much more then in the US to get the same amount of $, and at the end those $ buy less then in the US. A basic car here, built here, made by peoples that make 250 dollars a month, with Brazilian steal will cost you twice then for the same category of car bought in the US or in Europe.

maybe is just that in the US you don`t realize how many things you are granted too.

The social status is changing here, so things are getting more expensive every day, some type of products are considered fancy, while at the end they are probably cheaply made and not of good quality, but just because they are a middle class product they charge you a stupid amount of money for it.

An other thing I miss is the food, at the groceries in the US you can find what you want at any time of the day, here no, you need to adapt to local food costumes, I did but I still miss a lot of things i was able to buy in the US, I usually cook my own food.
 
swisspilot said:
This was my same mindset, but after living for a while here I start missing a lot of things of the US. Yes you don`t need the latest iphone, a big TV (well at least that is cheap here, they make them in the Amazon..no I`m not joking), a nice big car....but you have to work a lot here to save up money, you need to work so much more then in the US to get the same amount of $, and at the end those $ buy less then in the US. A basic car here, built here, made by peoples that make 250 dollars a month, with Brazilian steal will cost you twice then for the same category of car bought in the US or in Europe.

maybe is just that in the US you don`t realize how many things you are granted too.

The social status is changing here, so things are getting more expensive every day, some type of products are considered fancy, while at the end they are probably cheaply made and not of good quality, but just because they are a middle class product they charge you a stupid amount of money for it.

An other thing I miss is the food, at the groceries in the US you can find what you want at any time of the day, here no, you need to adapt to local food costumes, I did but I still miss a lot of things i was able to buy in the US, I usually cook my own food.
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A lot of times when I visit for a long period of time I really do miss a lot of stuff from here. And I'm talking less than 30 days. I really don't know what I'll do when I live there you know?

The things I miss are the things most people I know take for granted, like being able to stop at nearly any intersection and have a wachovia/BoA, CVS, Walgreens, etc and get whatever you want. You're not limited to only your bank. Pharmacies are different too. I mean you know all this

The thing I dislike the most is (At least in Sao Paulo where I grew up) you wake up in a locked house with a security guard (or building), you probably have an electric fence. You go to work where you drive into a secured parking lot, but the whole way there you are worried about getting robbed at the light.
I don't like to live in fear

Maybe if there was a single person in my family who hadn't gotten either robbed at gunpoint, kidnapped, car stolen, etc I'd feel a little safer but how can you feel safe when you have to literally be paranoid 247??

I like that I can walk out of the bank here with 100 dollar bills and literally flash them in the air and walk home and I know nothing will happen. I like that the law here actually means something.

it'll be hard to change back to what I have grown accustomed to.

This all of course skips the fact that I LOVE Sao Paulo and always will.
 
elmetal said:
A lot of times when I visit for a long period of time I really do miss a lot of stuff from here. And I'm talking less than 30 days. I really don't know what I'll do when I live there you know?

The things I miss are the things most people I know take for granted, like being able to stop at nearly any intersection and have a wachovia/BoA, CVS, Walgreens, etc and get whatever you want. You're not limited to only your bank. Pharmacies are different too. I mean you know all this

The thing I dislike the most is (At least in Sao Paulo where I grew up) you wake up in a locked house with a security guard (or building), you probably have an electric fence. You go to work where you drive into a secured parking lot, but the whole way there you are worried about getting robbed at the light.
I don't like to live in fear

Maybe if there was a single person in my family who hadn't gotten either robbed at gunpoint, kidnapped, car stolen, etc I'd feel a little safer but how can you feel safe when you have to literally be paranoid 247??

I like that I can walk out of the bank here with 100 dollar bills and literally flash them in the air and walk home and I know nothing will happen. I like that the law here actually means something.

it'll be hard to change back to what I have grown accustomed to.

This all of course skips the fact that I LOVE Sao Paulo and always will.
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I`m lucky enough to live in a nice and safe area, it`s maybe the only one of Rio. it`s really residential but there are a lot of bars, restaurants and clubs at the bottom of almost every building so unless you go out at 0300 AM (during the week) there is always somebody on the street and you never find yourself walking around alone. I drive an old gol, so most of the time I don`t even get asked for money at the traffic light :rotfl:

I love Sao Paulo, things seem to work a lot better there, but I would not trade the beach I have just a block from my house for that.

There are cities in Brazil that are actually really safe, MG has some nice places to live in, like Juiz de Fora, so does Parana and RS, I actually like the south a lot maybe not the weather.

I`m actually planning to leave Brazil in 2011, I have applied for a job on the other side of the globe and I`m waiting to see when I can do the training, if it works out I will be out of here in couple months...
 
swisspilot said:
I`m lucky enough to live in a nice and safe area, it`s maybe the only one of Rio. it`s really residential but there are a lot of bars, restaurants and clubs at the bottom of almost every building so unless you go out at 0300 AM (during the week) there is always somebody on the street and you never find yourself walking around alone. I drive an old gol, so most of the time I don`t even get asked for money at the traffic light :rotfl:

I love Sao Paulo, things seem to work a lot better there, but I would not trade the beach I have just a block from my house for that.

There are cities in Brazil that are actually really safe, MG has some nice places to live in, like Juiz de Fora, so does Parana and RS, I actually like the south a lot maybe not the weather.

I`m actually planning to leave Brazil in 2011, I have applied for a job on the other side of the globe and I`m waiting to see when I can do the training, if it works out I will be out of here in couple months...
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I wouldn't live in Rio even if the beach was a block away! Not that I don't like the city but Sao Paulo is my hometown. I can't explain the feeling that I get when I'm in that city.

But anyway, good luck moving on to bigger and better things! That's what it's all about!!
 
Very nice but it's sad that time is over for us. The word sexy really no longer fits in with aviation anymore in the states. Thank god for the Kingfisher girls here in India. And Indigo just changed their uniforms to an older 50's style, very very nice.
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