When you're done sounding off like a little snot nosed twit, you'll perhaps remember that you opened the thread to comment when you first posted. One day when you grow up enough you may realize you've received some invaluable counsel. The days of the 300 hour wonder falling into a regional cockpit have somewhat faded, and it's time to stand up and make your way like most of us have done over the years.
Seek work banner towing. Trade A Plane has an advertisement right now for banner pilots. http://www.trade-a-plane.com/classi...AND&keyword2=&timelimit=0&tlvalue=2&maxads=25
Find a dropzone ( http://www.uspa.org/FindaDZ/tabid/184/Default.aspx). Go make some skydives, hang out with drop zones, join the US Parachute association (http://www.uspa.org), and get some work flying jumpers (http://diverdriver.com). Learn to pack and make some extra money. Jumpers trust pilots who jump.
Join Civil Air Patrol (http://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/html/pilots.htm) and fly cadets, become a mission pilot flying disaster relief or search and rescue, and instruct at your local squadron. You'll enjoy discount aircraft use, and meet other pilots seekin to gain experience with whom you can split aircraft use and cut costs.
You'll need an instructor certificate, of course, to instruct...but this is a bullet you're really going to have to bite sooner or later, even if it means working two full time jobs to get it paid off in the meanwhile. The question you'll have to answer for yourself is how badly do you want this to happen. Aviation doesn't come to you: you go to it. If you've been doing contract work at your tender hours, you're still living in a dream world...time to wake up.
Traffic watch...large cities will often have jobs available somewhere in the news sector for a 172 pilot or other such job, looking for and reporting on traffic. Might just be your thing. Places like Aircom occasionaly hire traffic watch pilots in L.A. (http://www.aircommedia.com/site_index.htm), or Desert Peak Aviation in Scottsdale (AZ).
Have you bothered to read the FlightInfo page on building experinece or "building time?" You should. http://www.flightinfo.com/buildtime.htm
You're probably going to have to move to find work. This is aviation of course, and it means going where the work is.
The real question here is not what you can do, but how motivated you are to go do it. Your blew your lid over some well placed good counsel on a web board when you did nothing more than ask for a handout...you're certainly far from demonstrating you're ready to make your way. You're going to need a considerably thicker skin. You're going to need to realize just how underqualified you presently are, and you're going to have to use that realization to motivate yourself to work hard to get where you want to be.
I can tell you that when I wanted to tow banners, I built a banner towing operation, sold the advertising, made the banners, fixed the airplanes, etc...and I used someone else's aircraft to do it because I couldn't afford my own. When I wanted to instruct, I built a student base. You could be teaching ground school right now as a ground instructor if you can't afford to obtain your flight instructor certificate...this costs nearly nothing but requires effort on your part...effort you should have already put out rather than crying about it.
Once I built a student base, I began hard-selling flight training. I towed banners. I towed an airplane as a float through the longest parade in the country. I visited schools and put on presentations. I took apart an airplane and reassembled it inside a mall as a display to sell instruction and flights. I began doing local scenic flights. I couldn't get a job instructing; they weren't to be had, so I came up with my own students, brought busines to a school, and went to work as an aircraft mechanic in the shop, and doing their books, and fueling their aircraft at night, and doing anything else I could for work. I brought in business, and in so doing enabled myself to be useful, and used that to trade for airplane time and an instructor to get an instructor certificate...and began flight instructing. All this while working a full time day job answering phones, and a full time night job as a guard. Are you motivated, or did you take no thought beyond asking on a web board?
As a high school kid trying to find work doing agricultural spraying, I hit the roads and visited every ag operator I could, eventually getting hired...in a time when new hires didn't get to fly, but only mix chemical, drive and fix tractors, and drill grain. I worked into the business, and it was my first job out of high school...crop dusting. It was hard work. It still is today.
Now, if you want to cop an attitude and whine and cry, and whimper about stopping posting because you think people giving you good counsel are irritating you, then that's your choice. Crawl back under the blanket until you feel safe, then come out later and ask again. In the meantime, forget the good information you've received...and move on your way. If you keep asking, eventually you'll have it all layed out on a silver platter. Right?
The hardest part of flying is paying for it. You're not done achieving your basic certification and ratings, yet. Make this a priority. You need to be qualified to find work. Presently, you are not.
Seek work banner towing. Trade A Plane has an advertisement right now for banner pilots. http://www.trade-a-plane.com/classi...AND&keyword2=&timelimit=0&tlvalue=2&maxads=25
Find a dropzone ( http://www.uspa.org/FindaDZ/tabid/184/Default.aspx). Go make some skydives, hang out with drop zones, join the US Parachute association (http://www.uspa.org), and get some work flying jumpers (http://diverdriver.com). Learn to pack and make some extra money. Jumpers trust pilots who jump.
Join Civil Air Patrol (http://www.gocivilairpatrol.com/html/pilots.htm) and fly cadets, become a mission pilot flying disaster relief or search and rescue, and instruct at your local squadron. You'll enjoy discount aircraft use, and meet other pilots seekin to gain experience with whom you can split aircraft use and cut costs.
You'll need an instructor certificate, of course, to instruct...but this is a bullet you're really going to have to bite sooner or later, even if it means working two full time jobs to get it paid off in the meanwhile. The question you'll have to answer for yourself is how badly do you want this to happen. Aviation doesn't come to you: you go to it. If you've been doing contract work at your tender hours, you're still living in a dream world...time to wake up.
Traffic watch...large cities will often have jobs available somewhere in the news sector for a 172 pilot or other such job, looking for and reporting on traffic. Might just be your thing. Places like Aircom occasionaly hire traffic watch pilots in L.A. (http://www.aircommedia.com/site_index.htm), or Desert Peak Aviation in Scottsdale (AZ).
Have you bothered to read the FlightInfo page on building experinece or "building time?" You should. http://www.flightinfo.com/buildtime.htm
You're probably going to have to move to find work. This is aviation of course, and it means going where the work is.
The real question here is not what you can do, but how motivated you are to go do it. Your blew your lid over some well placed good counsel on a web board when you did nothing more than ask for a handout...you're certainly far from demonstrating you're ready to make your way. You're going to need a considerably thicker skin. You're going to need to realize just how underqualified you presently are, and you're going to have to use that realization to motivate yourself to work hard to get where you want to be.
I can tell you that when I wanted to tow banners, I built a banner towing operation, sold the advertising, made the banners, fixed the airplanes, etc...and I used someone else's aircraft to do it because I couldn't afford my own. When I wanted to instruct, I built a student base. You could be teaching ground school right now as a ground instructor if you can't afford to obtain your flight instructor certificate...this costs nearly nothing but requires effort on your part...effort you should have already put out rather than crying about it.
Once I built a student base, I began hard-selling flight training. I towed banners. I towed an airplane as a float through the longest parade in the country. I visited schools and put on presentations. I took apart an airplane and reassembled it inside a mall as a display to sell instruction and flights. I began doing local scenic flights. I couldn't get a job instructing; they weren't to be had, so I came up with my own students, brought busines to a school, and went to work as an aircraft mechanic in the shop, and doing their books, and fueling their aircraft at night, and doing anything else I could for work. I brought in business, and in so doing enabled myself to be useful, and used that to trade for airplane time and an instructor to get an instructor certificate...and began flight instructing. All this while working a full time day job answering phones, and a full time night job as a guard. Are you motivated, or did you take no thought beyond asking on a web board?
As a high school kid trying to find work doing agricultural spraying, I hit the roads and visited every ag operator I could, eventually getting hired...in a time when new hires didn't get to fly, but only mix chemical, drive and fix tractors, and drill grain. I worked into the business, and it was my first job out of high school...crop dusting. It was hard work. It still is today.
Now, if you want to cop an attitude and whine and cry, and whimper about stopping posting because you think people giving you good counsel are irritating you, then that's your choice. Crawl back under the blanket until you feel safe, then come out later and ask again. In the meantime, forget the good information you've received...and move on your way. If you keep asking, eventually you'll have it all layed out on a silver platter. Right?
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