First flight job recommendations?

[skydiverdriver]

Umm, all of them?

I would apply to anyone that will take your resume. Try skydiving operations, banner towing (although a bit dangerous), pipeline patrol, traffic watch, instructing, perhaps see if a school might hire you if you get your CFI ratings there. Get a copy of Trade a Plane, and look in the employment section. Send resumes to cargo operators, Fedex feeders, UPS feeders, and anyone else you can think of. Go to the library for a copy of the WAD (World Aviation Directory) and send them out to a bunch of people. Go to a local FBO flight school and ask where their instructors are leaving for. Apply to all the regionals. Hang out at the airport bar. Join a flying club and get to know all the pilots there. Try everything you can. They say that the first 1000 hours are always the toughest. You may have to change jobs once or twice to get what you need. Shoot for the heaviest and dirtiest time you can get. Larger airplanes and IMC time is key.

Good luck.

 

[Blue583]

I don't think I was specific enough. I am a flight instructor at a university right now, that's where I've got my 900 hours. I was more specifically talking about jobs around the grand canyon where you are flying twin cessnas. I understand I have to do the research, I was more specifically asking about the company he worked for or any other compaines that fly twins, to build up my twin time. Thanks for the advice though, I will have to research the Fed Ex commuters, I'm not familiar with them at all.

 

[Lead Sled]

I don't think I was specific enough. I am a flight instructor at a university right now, that's where I've got my 900 hours. I was more specifically talking about jobs around the grand canyon where you are flying twin cessnas. I understand I have to do the research, I was more specifically asking about the company he worked for or any other compaines that fly twins, to build up my twin time. Thanks for the advice though, I will have to research the Fed Ex commuters, I'm not familiar with them at all.

I doubt if the companies that I worked for even exist any more. I'd start by getting a list of operators from the LAS FSDO.

'Sled

 

[TOGA]

DrProc -
Go buy yourself a sense of humor, then come back and re-read my post.

Everyone else -
Thanks much for the input, I'll pass it along!