Low Time Pilot Looking for a Job

[wmn_av8r]

Hello,

I am currently a Commercial Multi-engine, Instrument Rated Pilot with about 350 flight time hours, +50 hrs in Frasca 142 & 242. I also just finished up a jet orientation course in a 737-400 sim whereby I gained about 52 hours in experience. I am looking for a flying job and willing to relocate anywhere. I have looked into the CFI thing, but before I spend the $$$ I need to make sure that I can find a CFI job and it seems that everyone is a bit slow and not hiring CFIs at this point as they don't have anyone leaving. Does anyone have any ideas on companies that may be willing to hire me at my low time? I have a degree in accounting as well and was successful before I gave up that career to fly. I am also willing to perform dispatch duties, etc. in addition to flying.

 

[scubabri]

From one low timer to another, you are gonna have a tough go at it.

If you are really insistant about finding a job, your best bet would be to go to dropzones and see if they need anyone to fly skydivers, right now would be a good time as things pick up in the north.

The other option, is to start hanging out at your local FBO's and start introducing yourself to basically everyone. Get yourself some business cards with your name, phone number and email, and start handing them out.

Also, get yourself a copy of Act! and start keeping a record of who you talk to, when you talked to them and their contact information. Also, record if the refer you to anyone.

Right now, your options are very limited, your best bet, probably, would be to get your CFI and drum up some students on your own. I figure we are in this for another couple years before it turns around.

There are lots of resources on the web, but the problem with them is that you are going to be in a stack of resumes 2" thick, and you are gonna be the lowest timer. The only way you are gonna find the abnormal job that doesn't match your time, is to go out and talk to people and find it.

Also, if you can afford to fly, go do it, also, hook up with the local flight schools to be a safety pilot for instrument students. Anything to build time.

Let me know if I can help out at all.

b.

 

[marqmarq]

CFI jobs

I came across a job listing last week for an instructor for a flight school at CGF. It was at flipdog or pilotcrewjobs or one of the others. Said average instructor was getting 80-100 hours/month. If you know an Options guy ask him or go to the Fracs board, you might find the name of the company... good luck

btw, CGF is the (old?) home for Flight Options...

 

[Cardinal]

I would probably bite the bullet and get the CFI. Believe me, I hated to do it, but my career and I have been better for it. I've seen countless careers run aground permanently when the young pilot refused to instruct for awhile. There are a few gigs out there that can use a low timer, but often on a very part time basis. Like 15 hours/month.

Now this is a good way to get flamed, but I'm going to say it only because I truly care, so please don't take it the wrong way. I'm not discounting any aspect of your personality, just going to offer strategies that I would use were I in your position. From your handle and avatar, I'm assuming you're female. Based on this I might suggest that door-to-door style job hunting may work better for you than some others. Aviation is still so male-dominated that simply seeing a female with resume in hand will leave an impression, if only because the last 397 people through the door have been white males, age 20-24. And getting remembered can get you hired. If you can take such an opportunity and couple it with good peope skills, a King Air right seat (even though you can't log much of the time) would be attainable. Hopefully you'll take my comments as they were meant. Best wishes.

 

[MMO 0.705]

Why beat around the bush and just tell her to walk in with a short skirt/low cut top?

I had to say it.

 

[banned username 2]

Obviously she didn't like the answers she got in the other thread she started that asked the exact same thing and had the exact same answers...

I think this might be Archer, in drag!

(For those of you who don't know Archer, another low timer who repeatedly asked the same questions over and over always hoping for the answer that he wanted, but of course never getting it...)

 

[SennaP1]

Nice Grill...Do you own one?, saw one at Sears that looked like that. Charcoal? or Gas? I take it by that big Titanic Smoke stack its a charcoal one eh.

 

[banned username 2]

Nice Grill...Do you own one?, saw one at Sears that looked like that. Charcoal? or Gas? I take it by that big Titanic Smoke stack its a charcoal one eh.

Charcoal/wood burning... I have one very similar...

 

[slickmagneto]

Archer in Drag!!!

I'll have nightmares.

 

[Peter Gibbons]

Hey...maybe we could get a group of pilots together and start a grill company...then we could grow into a large conglomorate (can't spell) and get a flight department and then hire just chicks with short skirts and nice perfume to fly our planes. Anyone interested?