Now on to the topic of the "Old Fashioned Method" Rohan. How can one accumulate quality time you ask? Flight Instruction. Indonesia, China and Philippines are looking for flight instructors. I have enven brought it to the attention of fellow posters on PPRUNE too.
Another way to accumulate flight time is to do missionary flying. Those are two suggestions how one can build time.
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I realize, Rohan, that getting a job flying charter, in foreign lands, with extreme low time is out of the question… but accumulating time can be done, provided the individual is motivated enough to do so. As a chief pilot, that’s the sort of employee I want working for me.
Flight instruction is a good way of building hours. But today it's not only a question of hours. It also matters on what type of aircraft one builds his/her hours on. As an instructor, one would probably build hours on a C172, B58 and similar aircraft. Even if one acquires a TR, there are still some levels to be cleared.
Airlines typically require a minimum of 500 hours on type for first officers with a type rating. In the case of hiring non type rated first officers, they want about 1,000 hours on modern glass cockpit aircraft equipped with EFIS and weighing more than 10 to 20 tons. Preference is given to PIC time for the latter case.
The hours will come from instruction and missionary flying. But will airlines be satisfied with which aircraft they are on? What do you suggest that freshers do in such a situation? I am eager to know.