Maddog1974
Well-Known Member
:banghead:
So to start off i have to say i love my job. I love the fact that i get to fly and get paid to do it. My wife still hates me for being at ATP, but oh well...i had to get here somehow!
I have this job now with a part 61 outfit. They are working on 141 with hte first inspection out of the way. Needless to say the plane was grounded for a month to get the laundry list fixed. The "company" also flies a King Air 100 for a local owner who wants it on a 135 certificate, also on approach with inspections.
My problem is this...I am a low time pilot. I am freakin out about how to build time. I hear that guys that joined AE just a couple of years ago are loving it. I have ATP grads and Instructor who are woking for AE, Mesaba, etc who love it. I hear that an instructor back in carolina has around 1400 hours and is having a hard time getting a job. I respect my boss, former freight dawg and NJ guy, now a test pilot. He says to stick with them a couple years...instruct...gain time and experience and then launch into the industry.
But i tell you what...regionals are loookin pretty sexy right about now. I would make about the same as i do now with the way the economy is going. So i am wondering...WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING HERE?
I know, you can't tell me what will float or sink my boat. But it seems to me that seniority is everything, and connections, and friends, and....
I don't want to go airlines. I am 34, no degree (just part of one), married with kids. I just don't know how to approach the 135 pax, freight, or other world. Stay here and instruct, hope the KA gets busy and they get another AC...
So, any advice would be helpful. BTW, i did go to ATP Flight School, i'm at 360 hours and haven't flown a multi since i got here. Can't find a school with a twin to do free lance and current employer can't afford to get me insurance check out in the twin they have. Sure, as soon as business picks up i get checked out...but I am about to have more single than multi time and i paid a crapload to get that!
So, hit the regionals and see what happens.
OR
Stick to my guns and keep killin bugs in OK?
What would you do?
Got any connections to Tulsa i could bribe away/ sell myself for??
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"You could teach monkeys to fly better than that!"
So to start off i have to say i love my job. I love the fact that i get to fly and get paid to do it. My wife still hates me for being at ATP, but oh well...i had to get here somehow!
I have this job now with a part 61 outfit. They are working on 141 with hte first inspection out of the way. Needless to say the plane was grounded for a month to get the laundry list fixed. The "company" also flies a King Air 100 for a local owner who wants it on a 135 certificate, also on approach with inspections.
My problem is this...I am a low time pilot. I am freakin out about how to build time. I hear that guys that joined AE just a couple of years ago are loving it. I have ATP grads and Instructor who are woking for AE, Mesaba, etc who love it. I hear that an instructor back in carolina has around 1400 hours and is having a hard time getting a job. I respect my boss, former freight dawg and NJ guy, now a test pilot. He says to stick with them a couple years...instruct...gain time and experience and then launch into the industry.
But i tell you what...regionals are loookin pretty sexy right about now. I would make about the same as i do now with the way the economy is going. So i am wondering...WHAT THE HELL AM I DOING HERE?
I know, you can't tell me what will float or sink my boat. But it seems to me that seniority is everything, and connections, and friends, and....
I don't want to go airlines. I am 34, no degree (just part of one), married with kids. I just don't know how to approach the 135 pax, freight, or other world. Stay here and instruct, hope the KA gets busy and they get another AC...
So, any advice would be helpful. BTW, i did go to ATP Flight School, i'm at 360 hours and haven't flown a multi since i got here. Can't find a school with a twin to do free lance and current employer can't afford to get me insurance check out in the twin they have. Sure, as soon as business picks up i get checked out...but I am about to have more single than multi time and i paid a crapload to get that!
So, hit the regionals and see what happens.
OR
Stick to my guns and keep killin bugs in OK?
What would you do?
Got any connections to Tulsa i could bribe away/ sell myself for??
__________________________________________________
"You could teach monkeys to fly better than that!"