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I agree with Cliff's original point about getting the flying job going as quickly as possible and complete your degree online. It's only a check in the box your looking for anyway, so use your time on the road wisely and get ahead. Seniority in this business is everything..

 

[atpcliff]

Hi!

We go into ORF with Falcons and freighter -9s pretty often. If it was a PAX -9 it was probably an NCAA BBall team.

cliff
YIP

 

[Goose Egg]

Goose - stop right now!!!!! You're making too much sense and using too much logic.

Sorry, I'll try to keep it down.

-Goose

 

[Goose Egg]

So, did you get a $50K/year as a first year regional pilot when you got hired?

For any CFI who makes less than $11/hr and spend countless hours per day waiting and being cancelled on again and again and - even when you fly it's mostly a VFR ASEL flight - has a child and many bills other bills to pay (my first year as a CFI was $7000 Gross), suddenly a ttwin-turbine, part 121 job with a regular paycheck becomes an offer hard to resist.

If anything, you need to take your gripe to the 'grassroots' and look at the FBOs that charge $40/hr but pay the instructors only $10/hr.

Shaheen.

It should be noted that there are some very good instructing jobs out there. I make about $25K in mine, but it makes the pull of that $20k/year regional job a lot less intense. Granted I have no one to support but myself, which is not something entirely of my own choosing, but I do ok for someone just starting out.

-Goose

 

[look4traffic]

FWIW..I recently got hired by Sears for a retail management trainee position. I had about three total interviews and in each of them I talked about being a pilot and how it involves crucial decision making and problem solving. My point is that if you get furloughed you can still use flying to help you get a non-aviation job. just my .02 cents