Your First Flying Job!

[B-J-J Fighter]

LOL @ FlynBuddy! That was good.

 

[dsee8driver]

I got lucky..

Well, when it comes to luck I think I was at the right place at the right time. A few years back, after their accident, a friend was trying hard to get me an interview for an FE position at Fine Air. He called me one morning and I was making a delivery at Cocoa Beach and told me to get to the CHief Pilots office in Miami asap. I hauled anus back to Miami and was sitting in his office with my friend next to me listening to the CP, with my resume in hand, say how the next class was full of FEs. I figured in a month or two maybe I could get in. I was so excited I did not know what to do with my self. He left the room and I was thanking my friend for the opportunity when he returned. He looked at me and mentioned my "very low time" and turned to my friend and asked him, "So you think he can handle being an FO?" I nearly crapped my pants. He asked me the same thing and I can muster out of my drooling mouth was "I'll give it a hell of a try." Went down the hall and got an ID. Now with barely 3500 hrs, 2000+ have all been DC8, I can't think of a better job. Since it's freight I love it when people approach me and ask me if I ever want to be a commercial pilot, you know fly people?
All I can say is keep doing what you are doing and one day you just might get lucky!

 

[WrightAvia]

Since it's freight I love it when people approach me and ask me if I ever want to be a commercial pilot, you know fly people?

I love that one too. It's almost as funny as being tapped on the shoulder by one of your charter pax, while flying a 414 into a busy airport and your passenger asks, "You mean we can land at a COMMERCIAL airport?".

 

[jbDC9]

Re: Hard to beat

My first flying job (and I'm already wearing my Nomex, cause I'm sure no one's going to believe me) was as a 727 Flight Engineer. I had a whopping 309 hours total time when I got hired in the office of a Part 121 Supplemental. A few months down the road I managed to make a deal and get into the training department with the promise of an F/E class after a year. I got to fly for about 20 months on line and was furloughed for the third, and last, time a few months after 9/11 when they went Tango Uniform.

Hmmm, let me guess; you're one of Dale's Kids, right?? I wonder what he's up to these days...

 

[Jump Pilot]

My first flying job was flying skydivers in a beat up 182 off a grass strip. I had a blast.

My wife framed a color copy of the first check which was for $74.00. But, I was getting paid to fly!