BigBadStato
9th Nov 2014, 09:29
G'day Everyone,
As the title suggests, I'm a little lost and need some advice. I'm a 270 hour CPL with a CSU endo. All my time has been on 172s' and all the work I have done so far has been local charters...basically scenics and some aerial photography. I'm only doing it casually (since sept 2012) and work another job in an unrelated industry full time. I desperately want to progress into a full time position flying but I can't decide on what's best for the next step. Should I go and get my MECIR now (passed IREX earlier this year) and do my ATPL theory as well? The difficulty is that I am going to need to take time off to do both of those or either...6 weeks for the atpl and by the sounds of things ...about the same for the MECIR. Trying to get that sort of time off from my day job is hard. Is it worth me doing my MECIR now? at only 270 hours?
Or should I just apply for VFR jobs and gain more experience first?
Anyone who has the time to drop me a line here that would be greatly appreciated! Thanks everybody
As the title suggests, I'm a little lost and need some advice. I'm a 270 hour CPL with a CSU endo. All my time has been on 172s' and all the work I have done so far has been local charters...basically scenics and some aerial photography. I'm only doing it casually (since sept 2012) and work another job in an unrelated industry full time. I desperately want to progress into a full time position flying but I can't decide on what's best for the next step. Should I go and get my MECIR now (passed IREX earlier this year) and do my ATPL theory as well? The difficulty is that I am going to need to take time off to do both of those or either...6 weeks for the atpl and by the sounds of things ...about the same for the MECIR. Trying to get that sort of time off from my day job is hard. Is it worth me doing my MECIR now? at only 270 hours?
Or should I just apply for VFR jobs and gain more experience first?
Anyone who has the time to drop me a line here that would be greatly appreciated! Thanks everybody