swisspilot
Well-Known Member
Some time ago somebody asked about jobs in Brazil, I tried to answer that topic but it's closed.
Well I live in Brazil now, and I can share some details about flying jobs over here.
Aviation seems in pretty good health. Most of the regionals are hiring, they have new planes on order, and most of them will be delivered in 2010 (almost all EMBs). Corporate departments are growing and almost every flight school I have been to is hiring CFIs. The local FAA, ANAC offers the locals to pay for their training!
An FAA license can be validated, you have to sit for a law exam, medical, english p. test and one flight ck.
So far so good, getting the validation started it's a mess, at ANAC most people you talk to do not speak any english, only peoples at the upper levels speak english (you can't talk to them unless you have contacts).
You even need to know portuguese for the medical exam, there is a written psycho test. Every document you turn in has to be translated and signed by a notary. Your High school diploma has to be recognized (if you have a college degree don't tell them unless it will take forever), that means you have to take it to a brazilian consulate in US (or send it), then to this office, there is one at the American University in Rio, to get it signed. Your loogbook is not valid in Brazil, so you will have to copy all your hours on a new brazilian one, the last fligth you did has to be signed by a CFI, the FBO you rented the plane from,...somebody that can say you actually flew that day, has to be within 120 days from your application for the validation.
The regulation test it's not so hard, there is lots acronyms, and you can't find them anywhere, best thing is to join a Flight School and get some ground lessons. A fligth hour in a single over here it s a bit more expensive than in the US but the hour rate of the CFI is lower so I would say it costs the same, twins are really expensive. There is lots of local made planes and some pipers built by embraer (like the archer, warrior and the trubo arrow), most flight schools do private training in this old taildraggers that look like a supercub, IFR is usually done in an high perfomance single.
Well when you have your license you need a work permit. 4 ways to get that: marry a brazilian, get a stable union with a brazilian (easy, it's like a brazilian marriage only, a bit less paperwork and can be done at the notary in couple hours), have a kid born from a brazilian or invest 25000 dollars in something..Most company are not allowed to sponsor and to work for an airline you need to be brazilian.
Salary for pilots are about the same than in the US, but life is a lot cheaper.
Of all the places I have been to, USA, Europe, Asia, Middle east and Africa I think Brazil has a crazy strong industry and grow in avaition.
It's hard to get down here, but not impossible
Well I live in Brazil now, and I can share some details about flying jobs over here.
Aviation seems in pretty good health. Most of the regionals are hiring, they have new planes on order, and most of them will be delivered in 2010 (almost all EMBs). Corporate departments are growing and almost every flight school I have been to is hiring CFIs. The local FAA, ANAC offers the locals to pay for their training!
An FAA license can be validated, you have to sit for a law exam, medical, english p. test and one flight ck.
So far so good, getting the validation started it's a mess, at ANAC most people you talk to do not speak any english, only peoples at the upper levels speak english (you can't talk to them unless you have contacts).
You even need to know portuguese for the medical exam, there is a written psycho test. Every document you turn in has to be translated and signed by a notary. Your High school diploma has to be recognized (if you have a college degree don't tell them unless it will take forever), that means you have to take it to a brazilian consulate in US (or send it), then to this office, there is one at the American University in Rio, to get it signed. Your loogbook is not valid in Brazil, so you will have to copy all your hours on a new brazilian one, the last fligth you did has to be signed by a CFI, the FBO you rented the plane from,...somebody that can say you actually flew that day, has to be within 120 days from your application for the validation.
The regulation test it's not so hard, there is lots acronyms, and you can't find them anywhere, best thing is to join a Flight School and get some ground lessons. A fligth hour in a single over here it s a bit more expensive than in the US but the hour rate of the CFI is lower so I would say it costs the same, twins are really expensive. There is lots of local made planes and some pipers built by embraer (like the archer, warrior and the trubo arrow), most flight schools do private training in this old taildraggers that look like a supercub, IFR is usually done in an high perfomance single.
Well when you have your license you need a work permit. 4 ways to get that: marry a brazilian, get a stable union with a brazilian (easy, it's like a brazilian marriage only, a bit less paperwork and can be done at the notary in couple hours), have a kid born from a brazilian or invest 25000 dollars in something..Most company are not allowed to sponsor and to work for an airline you need to be brazilian.
Salary for pilots are about the same than in the US, but life is a lot cheaper.
Of all the places I have been to, USA, Europe, Asia, Middle east and Africa I think Brazil has a crazy strong industry and grow in avaition.
It's hard to get down here, but not impossible
