eghi r20
7th Dec 2006, 08:16
:ugh: What to Do..
I got my PPL, IMC in 1998 and loved it. I signed up to go modular starting in Florida in Nov 2000 aged 27. Then ground school Jan 01 to July 01. I then went on to the CPL and then came Sept 11th. The job market crashed to the floor. So faced with doing an IR with no prospects I did an FI rating and got a job three days a week as an FI and went back to my old job another three days to pay the bills. Soon afterwards I found out I was going to be a dad so set up home etc. It was not till 2003 I felt more confident about the job market so did the IR and then the MCC, but I had to cut back the instructing to one day a week. I have had about one interview a year thus far, but on the first two I was unsuccessful. The third one I passed the interview and the sim ride, I have been in the hold pool for a year and three month so far. I am now 33 with about 1000hrs and got a voicemail request for an interview this week with a jet company. When I phoned back and had a quick chat they said that my one day a week instructing may mean that I am not that current and could not take the risk. So yet another opportunity sails past. IR’s and medicals come round quicker each year or so it would seem.
When do you say enough is enough and forget it ??
I got my PPL, IMC in 1998 and loved it. I signed up to go modular starting in Florida in Nov 2000 aged 27. Then ground school Jan 01 to July 01. I then went on to the CPL and then came Sept 11th. The job market crashed to the floor. So faced with doing an IR with no prospects I did an FI rating and got a job three days a week as an FI and went back to my old job another three days to pay the bills. Soon afterwards I found out I was going to be a dad so set up home etc. It was not till 2003 I felt more confident about the job market so did the IR and then the MCC, but I had to cut back the instructing to one day a week. I have had about one interview a year thus far, but on the first two I was unsuccessful. The third one I passed the interview and the sim ride, I have been in the hold pool for a year and three month so far. I am now 33 with about 1000hrs and got a voicemail request for an interview this week with a jet company. When I phoned back and had a quick chat they said that my one day a week instructing may mean that I am not that current and could not take the risk. So yet another opportunity sails past. IR’s and medicals come round quicker each year or so it would seem.
When do you say enough is enough and forget it ??