IASCO
propilot said:
Have you checked with IASCO(JAL) in Napa? It may be a drive, but the money would be worth it.
I was associated with them briefly ten years ago. Terrific money, terrific facilities, terrific equipment, nice place to live, but an extremely formidable and difficult company. Apply, but be prepared for a very tough situation. IASCO is
not on my Top Ten (apologies to David Letterman).
You might try International Flight Training Academy (Air Staff, Inc.) in Bakersfield. Great money, great facilities, nice equipment and fair treatment. You are also training Japanese flight students and other foreign airline students, but, I understand, it is not fanatical as IASCO. I have a friend who worked there and liked it. I realize that Bakersfield is not the Bay Area, but you might like the company.
One other point. Count your blessings. Maybe you don't like hours and hours of steep turns, but at least you're turning a buck as a pilot and putting experience in your logboook. There are plenty of more experienced pilots than you who'd rather be flight instructing and staying in the air right now than worried about qualifying for WIA or what will happen when unemployment runs out. Ten years ago when I was a flight instructor, I always was proud of the fact that I was flying for a living and feeding myself while other, more experienced pilots from, e.g. Eastern and Pan Am, were not working and had no prospects.