breaking into the corparate market?

[captain]

How in the heck without type and time in type does anyone get into this game? All I see are jobs that require that stuff. This is probably a dead horse but WTF, everyone wants something for nothing.

 

[Gulfstream 200]

How in the heck without type and time in type does anyone get into this game? All I see are jobs that require that stuff. This is probably a dead horse but WTF, everyone wants something for nothing.

Connections and Rec's.

Time in type is FAR less important. Decent jobs usually don't care about time in type. If they want to save a few bucks on school and need someone yesterday, the job may have issues.

Its a tough market now, start by building a network and connections - oh, and do your best to put a non-airline gig on your resume. Nobody wants to be the first guy to hire you out of the Regionals - simple fact.

Good Luck.

 

[gear_guy]

This is a bad time to break into the corporate world. It is supply vs demand. There are plenty of pilots out of work with time in type and part 91 experience.

I would stick with what you have, for now. The majority of us have been in the corporate world since day 1. Thats not to say you could never make the move. It is all about timing.

Speaking for myself, all of my friends who went into the airline world laughed at me for making such a stupid decision. It has been the best career decision I have ever made. If you really want to break into the corporate world. You will have to be willing to start from the bottom.

 

[captain]

thanks, I got furloughed from a major airline, Chief pilot for part 91 now. I forgot how much I liked this part of aviation, the roots, not a bus driver for the masses anymore, "did my luggage make it on this flight?"

I would like to find the gig that I can settle down with but you know how aviation is "settle down" is a pipe dream.

The everlasting search continues...

 

[BoilerUP]

thanks, I got furloughed from a major airline, Chief pilot for part 91 now.

If that's the case, you've already answered your own question AND you haven't updated your profile to reflect such a change

 

[ttflyer]

thanks, I got furloughed from a major airline.

What "major airline" flies emb/atr equipment? Or have you not updated your profile?

 

[billy2331]

thanks, I got furloughed from a major airline, Chief pilot for part 91 now.

I don't understand your question either. I guess you did find a way because you are there now.

 

[satpak77]

thanks, I got furloughed from a major airline, Chief pilot for part 91 now. I forgot how much I liked this part of aviation, the roots, not a bus driver for the masses anymore, "did my luggage make it on this flight?"

I would like to find the gig that I can settle down with but you know how aviation is "settle down" is a pipe dream.

The everlasting search continues...

amazing how may furloughed-from-the-major guys are "ready to come back to their roots" in Corporate Aviation

once they get recalled, or the next job comes along, see ya. Roots? See ya

All about me baby, all about me

 

[say again]

Former airline guy. Got into corp flying because of who I knew, not what was on my resume. Come to think of it, never actually submitted one. Oh well, all for not as I havent flown in over a year (unemployed from flying, now banging nails). Tough, tough market.

 

[Rick James]

thanks, I got furloughed from a major airline, Chief pilot for part 91 now..

So you're a "Chief pilot" and not sure how to break into corporate aviaition?

What "major" flies Embraers?

 

[TMMT]

Knee pads, oh and big titties help too...

 

[TMMT]

What "major" flies Embraers?

Well I'm sure it was major for him...

 

[TMMT]

amazing how may furloughed-from-the-major guys are "ready to come back to their roots" in Corporate Aviation

once they get recalled, or the next job comes along, see ya. Roots? See ya

All about me baby, all about me

Ah yes I remember the good ole days when those bus drivers would look down their noses at my lowly steed taking up precious room in the conga line to the active.

Now I can wallpaper the hanger with their resumes...

 

[Caveman]

Someone asks for some guidance and all you guys do is take shots at him for being a former airline guy. Why the hostility? The airlines have no problem hiring corporate pilots. Why do corporate pilots think they do something special? Flying is flying.

My guess is most pilots end up at their current jobs more by chance than by design. I'm sure a good percentage of airline pilots and corporate pilots didn't set out to specifically pick a corporate or airline career path. It just happens. Whatever your first job is after instructing probably has more influence on your career path than anything else. Let's face it, most of us took the first turbine job we could live with and the rest is history. For some it was a King Air. For others it was a Saab. After that we progressed based on the experience we had on our resumes. Obviously some started out knowing which career path they wanted to pursue. I doubt they are the majority.

I'm an airline guy, but I've flown a little bit of corporate (very,very little). Based on my experience just about everybody I've flown with would do well in either world. The most unsafe pilot I ever knew was a corporate pilot. OTOH, the biggest jerk I ever met flying was an airline pilot.

Once you get some experience there's nothing particularly difficult about flying an Airbus or a Falcon. I've done both and I liked both. The unique part of corporate is the fact you are a one or two man self-contained pilot/dispatcher/logistician/gate agent/travel agent. That is a different skillset than suit up/show up fly the trip. Don't discount the challenges of the airline world though. Compared to part 91 you have a much bigger spotlight on your day to day activities and somebody else's screw up will take you down with them and, frankly, being responsible for 150+ lives and $65 million dollars worth of airplane is more stressful than 5 lives and a corporate jet. Day to day that isn't a big deal, but when the wx is crap and you're getting your ass kicked it matters. Dead is dead, but the stakes are higher. Just to be clear I'm not saying either job is harder or better. There are some subtle and not so subtle differences, but the overwhelming number of pilots I know could do either one equally as well.

If there's anything I can do to help any pro pilot I know find work I'll be glad to do it. I'd like to think most of you corporate guys would do the same thing for another fellow professional regardless of their background.

 

[LJ45]

why the "hostility" you ask, maybe because most corporate guys work a long time to get a good corporate job. Just because you get laid off from the airlines doesn't' mean you go to the front of the line for corporate jobs. Next time the airlines hire I want to get picked first for a job, even though I am a corporate pilot.