Paying your dues???

NovemberEcho said:
Sweet potato casserole with brown sugar and marshmallows is my mother effing jam. That chit is delicious.
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Next winter holiday season, go to Walmart and get a Patty Pie. It will get you hooked on sweet potato pies. Pumpkin pie is inferior and is not allowed in my household. The door will be slammed in your face if you attempt to bring pumpkin pie into my home. :)
 
KLB said:
Next winter holiday season, go to Walmart and get a Patty Pie. It will get you hooked on sweet potato pies. Pumpkin pie is inferior and is not allowed in my household. The door will be slammed in your face if you attempt to bring pumpkin pie into my home. :)
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pumpkin anything is gross.
 
tcco94 said:
Pretty sure Swayne did not build all his hours island hopping on weekends. That was more fun thing he did. Problem I have with these small caravan places is they fail so often and you can lose your job at any moment. Plus how many hours are you truly building a month?

I was too the same attitude, I literally joined this forum asking about alternatives to not instruct. One thread was all it took and 3 months later I had my CFI in my hand. I've seen people go down all these roads and paths and then FINALLY they get their hours years later bouncing around and boom there's a crisis. I think if the objective is get seniority number ASAP, there's only 1 route to be advisable. And we all know it.

Just my opinion and not saying you can't do it successfully outside of instructing, but you're pretty much gonna be climbing a hill from the start .
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The problem seems to coalesce from the fact that the CFI can be a giant PITA to get. It's like getting a letter from your next high school English teacher 6 weeks before school starts with a list of 10 books that need to be read before the school year starts or that first meeting with your graduate program thesis advisor when he/she outlines all the inscrutable details you'll be expected to do in 6 point type with 0.5" margins. That same cloud of disinterest just descends around the whole idea.

My guess is if it was 1987, and you could still drill around for 5 hours in the right seat of a 152, and go to your local DPE for the ticket, there would be FAR fewer of these threads.

The dread isn't really about teaching. It's about the prep work, which, admittedly, is significant and quite fussy. People just like to transfer it to "I don't want to teach" because they don't want to pick up that whole bag of bricks. It's just as easy to set that bag down and say "nope" and go back to snacking on Funions on the couch.

This whole gig is about maximizing your chances to get to the big show. If you don't want to do that, fine, but we wouldn't be having this conversation, but rather one on "Hangar Floor Debris Removal 101", which seems the primary method that some people alight on Corporate jobs, although in some cases, "Reflective Surface Precipitate Deposition 101" is an acceptable alternative. "Familial Affiliation Harvesting 202" is also a good choice as a follow on.
 
tcco94 said:
Pretty sure Swayne did not build all his hours island hopping on weekends. That was more fun thing he did. Problem I have with these small caravan places is they fail so often and you can lose your job at any moment. Plus how many hours are you truly building a month?

I was too the same attitude, I literally joined this forum asking about alternatives to not instruct. One thread was all it took and 3 months later I had my CFI in my hand. I've seen people go down all these roads and paths and then FINALLY they get their hours years later bouncing around and boom there's a crisis. I think if the objective is get seniority number ASAP, there's only 1 route to be advisable. And we all know it.

Just my opinion and not saying you can't do it successfully outside of instructing, but you're pretty much gonna be climbing a hill from the start .
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I hit ATP mins roughly 16 months after I started at a Caravan company at 220TT. Granted it was an understaffed company just before they went out of business. Even CFI’ing you’re working long days to reach mins in that same time frame. I think SAE will work for the OP.... IIIIFFFF he can handle the low pay. As far as time building I almost guarantee he will hit mins inside of 18 months sitting where he’s at now, providing the company doesn’t go TU

*Edit* Not to derail the thread but I remember your first few posts on here. Look at where you are at now, excellent work if I haven’t said it before
 
JDean3204 said:
I hit ATP mins roughly 16 months after I started at a Caravan company at 220TT. Granted it was an understaffed company just before they went out of business. Even CFI’ing you’re working long days to reach mins in that same time frame. I think SAE will work for the OP.... IIIIFFFF he can handle the low pay. As far as time building I almost guarantee he will hit mins inside of 18 months sitting where he’s at now, providing the company doesn’t go TU

*Edit* Not to derail the thread but I remember your first few posts on here. Look at where you are at now, excellent work if I haven’t said it before
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Which isn't a bad payoff 12-18 months to hit mins to go 121 or hell fly a jet 135 earlier than that is a good trade off. Some sacrifice will likely have to be made as you said.

Very happy with the forum and advice help I got along the way. I know a lot of luck and timing is needed for sure. That's sort of the unfortunate part of this industry. Just gotta pinch myself and be thankful, try to help as many as I can move along
 
tcco94 said:
Which isn't a bad payoff 12-18 months to hit mins to go 121 or hell fly a jet 135 earlier than that is a good trade off. Some sacrifice will likely have to be made as you said.

Very happy with the forum and advice help I got along the way. I know a lot of luck and timing is needed for sure. That's sort of the unfortunate part of this industry. Just gotta pinch myself and be thankful, try to help as many as I can move along
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If I was new to this forum or industry, your advice would be gold to me. So I hope those that are reading take that and run with it. CFI time isn’t needed, but anyway you can build quality time will work.
 
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