Low Time Pilot Looking for a Job

[KINGAIR PIC]

Wmn_av8r,

Seriously, get your Commercial SE, then your CFI. Instruct until you can't stand it anymore. Your time will build faster than you can put the entries in your logbook. Don't wait around for any Corporate gigs, just get your time up at least past 1200 TT, then start thinking about a transition to something better.

Just speaking from experience.

 

[embdrvr]

I also just finished up a jet orientation course in a 737-400 sim whereby I gained about 52 hours in experience.........
confused

I'm confused why anyone would spend 52 hours in a 737 sim when what they should have spent their money on is a rating that they could make some money with.
CFI jobs are always out there even in tough times.
Who sold you on the idea of a "jet orientation course?" They're doing you and your fellow newbies a disservice.

 

[Airpiraterob]

here you go....

your goal, to have enough time to fly for a living.
method? obtain those hours.

best way?

-dropzones, drop pilot
-a/c ferry
-pipeline patrol
-flight instruct.

try to fly the ILS to minimums no gyro after having flown pipeline or dropzone flying for 2 years. 10 to 1 the instructor will out do you.

what im saying is this. teaching others is the best way to make sure you retain everything youve ever learned in youre whole learning-to-fly career so far. get the CFI. get the instructing job. at my most recent interview i saw all kinds of high and low time people. the low timers were CFI-CFII-MEI instructors. not a single one of them came from pipeline or dropzone or cropdusting. they all were hardcore isntructors. the other types of backgrounds werent interviewed as they are not reliable in their flying methods. one place i interviewed at did a actual flight to see how people stacked up and they had to take the plane away from this one guy. i hate saying it but the best way to do it is to teach. you retain everythign there is to know and you can go from that to something really good in just 2 years later (2 years was 1165 hours dual given for me. put me at 1500 total. marketable in some respect and 135 minimums for sure. to freight i went.)

i cant stress enough the importance of retention of knowledge for your future jobs. teaching makes that happen and the prospective employer likes it if youre actually able to fly the sim halfway decent.

anyway, good luck. i hope you do find what you want to do.

 

[FlyingStarr]

huh?

You don't really have 50+ hours of 737 sim time do you? I think that has to be a typo. If you're a looker though maybe you can sit in the right seat with me........that is if you wear the short skirt...etc, etc.

Good luck

 

[B190Captain]

Geezus, you guys are brutal. LOL!! Give the girl a break although most of that advice should be taken under consideration. BTW all that FRASCA time, no worth diddly so don't even put that in a resume. As for the 52 hrs in a 737, I assume that was all simulated? Did you attain a type rating? what kind of course was it?

Anyway, it's definetly a rough situation out there right now. All I can say to you is good luck!!

 

[skootertrash]

You have two options.

1. Pay your dues (like everyone else) Instruct, then find some multi time whatever. But honestly no one will be impressed that you have 737 sim time. The real world flying is much diferent that the Sim. Also the Frasca time, that just means that you had a lot of time on your hands and didn't have to pay for the frasca. When I got hired at an airline I must have had about 200 hours of frasca time but I didn't embarrass myself and put it on a resume.

2. Buy some knee pads and don't drag your teeth.

Bottom line. Pay your dues. Pilots who get jobs with low time do not have experience. You need experience to stay alive!

 

[WMUSIGPI]

Re: Re: Low Time Pilot Looking for a Job

I'm confused why anyone would spend 52 hours in a 737 sim when what they should have spent their money on is a rating that they could make some money with.
CFI jobs are always out there even in tough times.
Who sold you on the idea of a "jet orientation course?" They're doing you and your fellow newbies a disservice.

The biggest disservice is all that 737 sim time is useless unless you are using it for JAA purposes. The FAA wouldn't approve the sim because WMU cut corners in building it and didn't use some approved parts to save costs. None of that sim time is loggable, the Frasca 142 you did your instrument lessons in is more usefull as far as the FAA is concerned. Granted it seems like good training but I'd rather spend 10k on an actual type rating. (it was originally meant to only be for the European training contracts that have all dried up since 9/11 instead of being smart and getting a King Air 90 for everyone to fly)