I had a discussion with some friends at the airport last night. It goes along the lines of:
"What's more important, any turbine time or any multi time?".
This, of course, comes from the single-engine turbine vice multi engine piston -- with about 2000TT, 1000PIC, you can get either job pretty easily (this is PIC, not regional airline SIC stuff). You can fly C-208's for a feeder, PC-12's for a local frax outfit, or haul checks and/or pax with many local ME outfits (one runs Baron's, the others 402's). So, with eyes set on big or corporate iron... what do you think looks better on resume? Why? All qualify as either 135 or 121 outfits, so it's good solid time in the book to boot.
Personally, I like the idea of the turbine time -- the local feeder will have you flying in harder conditions, and you have turbine time -- which seems to have a bit more value than multi piston.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
-Andrew
"What's more important, any turbine time or any multi time?".
This, of course, comes from the single-engine turbine vice multi engine piston -- with about 2000TT, 1000PIC, you can get either job pretty easily (this is PIC, not regional airline SIC stuff). You can fly C-208's for a feeder, PC-12's for a local frax outfit, or haul checks and/or pax with many local ME outfits (one runs Baron's, the others 402's). So, with eyes set on big or corporate iron... what do you think looks better on resume? Why? All qualify as either 135 or 121 outfits, so it's good solid time in the book to boot.
Personally, I like the idea of the turbine time -- the local feeder will have you flying in harder conditions, and you have turbine time -- which seems to have a bit more value than multi piston.
Thoughts?
Cheers,
-Andrew