seriously looking for flight school

[wiggsfly]

Regardless of what you hear, you DONT get an interview with an airline at 300 hours. That is the BARE MINIMUM hours that your going to get to go all the way thru the training.

Once you have finished all your training, you then must work as an instructor at the school until you get between 1000 (for Airnet) and between 1200-1500 hours to get an interview at a regional airline. Period, no exception. And I know of an instructor that works there that only logged 250 hours last year, so dont think it's going to be an overnight occurence either!

Not necessarily true if you go to a school partnered with a regional. A number of the University programs will offer this and I have seen F/Os at places like Chicago Express with less than 300 total time. The key here is finding a school that has good relationships with a small carier. As for bot getting much time as an instructor, that isn't uncommon either anymore when many operators put their new instructor's only on instrument students effectively making them sim-jockey's for a while.

 

[wheelsup]

Regardless of what you hear, you DONT get an interview with an airline at 300 hours. That is the BARE MINIMUM hours that your going to get to go all the way thru the training.

Once you have finished all your training, you then must work as an instructor at the school until you get between 1000 (for Airnet) and between 1200-1500 hours to get an interview at a regional airline. Period, no exception. And I know of an instructor that works there that only logged 250 hours last year, so dont think it's going to be an overnight occurence either!

Acutally, at ERAU they're placing guys into ASA with about 300 or so TT for guys who do internships. Prior to FlyI's days ERAU interns were going in at ~275/25 multi to ACA.

ERAU alumni get an interview with Eagle @ 500/50 if they made deans list while there.

At MAPD, a group of students just left for training in PHX for the RJ. They average about 250 TT. No instructing needed.

There are other ways to go beside instructing - I wish I knew what they were before going head first into CFI'ing.

Flying 250 hours a year is pitiful for a CFI. I do more than that every 4 months (even at my old 61 jobs I did that!).

~wheelsup
P.S. A little bias'ness here, I went to riddle. During my time there were no internships available because of the economy...bad timing. There's guys that graduated after me that are at ASA now.