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Hi all,
I've been trying to get an airline job since 2004 and have finally secured a place with a regional airline. I've already posted on another thread relating to age, so I'll just paste the link to that thread here.
Don't give up!!!
Loop http://www.pprune.org/forums/showthr...96#post3483096
I work at a professional training organisation and we have approx 14 vacancies for Instructors. We are seeking full time Bombardier Global Express Instructors and Falcon 900EX EASy / 2000EX EASy and 7X Instructors. Preference will be given to type rated individuals but training will be provided if necessary. You must have a minimum of 1500 flying hours on multi-pilot aircraft and hold, or have held, an ICAO professional licence.
Please let me know if you are interested and I will provide further details.
Best Wishes
you honestly cannot expect to land a job rhs in a jet straight out of flight school, no matter how badly you want it. Unfortunately things just don't work that way. I would suggest that you be happy with what you are offered, or maybe lower your standards a bit. In other countries, and I will use mine as an example, we are expected to fly 207's and 210's for years on end, then when we have 1000TT and 200hrs multi we MIGHT just be considered for rhs on a saab 340. I know that some of you in the UK and US score these types of jobs right out of training so consider yourselves damn lucky. I have 400TT and a long way to go, but GA flying is fun and who wouldn't want to fly a shit box 207 in remote western australia??
I have worked for 4 companies. One company I never even applied to and was asked to interview and was hired on the spot. The other 3, I received a call the same day I applied (all within 2 hrs). My new company called me 1 hr after I applied and hired me over the phone on that first call. BIG MONEY to fly a CRJ tax free as an FO. How could I turn that down.
I think you guys just need me to prepare and send your resumes. I guess I have the majic touch.
Hmm.. Before you jump on the guy, I'd point out he's in the States, where the commuter/regional market is booming. Also, Majic is an acceptable spelling in some regions.
Hi, sorry haven't read the whole thread but thought I'd share my experiences, I finished my MCC early June and start RHS on a jet next month.
I have 270hrs, i'm 29, I have a spanish IR and I trained multi stop modular, I have zero contacts in the industry and I've had an overall positive response from many companies and now a job within 3 months of finishing my training.
I'm by no means an exceptional candidate, but found a good well written cv and a nicely worded letter got me a reply most of the time.
There probably is an element of luck in there, but don't believe that contacts are the only way a low hour pilot will get his first opportunity, i've had that fed down my throat for the last two years and personally seen very little truth in it.
Just want to wish everyone the best of luck, you will get that job!
I'm following this thread for a while and have some few thoughts. It is correct that persistance is important, however.... at a certain point it stops. I'm also looking for a job for almost 3 years. Ok i had some interviews and sim rides but there was always 'something' why i did not make it. I was prepared to do anything. I don't care if it is TP or not. I just want to fly. Now i really believed that because of my persistance i would find something, but so far..."NO". I also agree with the fact that "self-pitty" does not help. But at a point it stops. What can one do? He/She explored everything but without any luck.
Now for me, i decided to go for my type at gcat. I'm practising for the assesment. Believe me, paying for my type was the last thing i wanted to do but there are no other options left.
Every time a pilot pays for a TR... is the airlines sticking it up to all of us and in doing so the pilot sticking it up to us too.
IF now that the Companies need pilots, is a pilot market,the youngens are buying TR so they can skip straight to the airline (they are buying themselves a job) when this bubble bust, is a company market, we will see what the companies are going to pull..... Minimum wage for FO? with TR and why not you pay for everything, no per dimes... we will see. But I do not want to hear any of the "I buy myself a TR" people to complaint about it......
PM me and I get you a job, it might not the a 747 but a job!
You have to admit: persistance has a limit. If you are looking for almost 3 years for a job, without any result, then at some point you have to do something. Where i live there are not much possiblities. I considered freelance work (taxi), aerial work but i always got a 'no' answer. The only thing i now do is flight seeing tours for a small company, unpaid.
I'm 31y old and i want to move on with my life. I think that a typerating at gcat will increase my chances on the job market. This company has a very good reputation and a lot of students got afterwards a job. Even people in their late 30'ies got a job. What else can i do?? Getting older and see that other people get a flying job?
Now, if you are saying you have a flying job for me, i'm always prepared to listen your proposal.
you say that you have been looking for a job for 3 years, have you been instructing?
I had to instruct for 3 1/2 years before I got my first break and as I had 2000 hours total time when I got my first commercial job I got command very quickly (within 18 months)
I have no FI rating. Two reasons i don't get this: first, the local flying clubs are full with instructors, a lot of 'would be instructors' are also looking for a position. Secondly i feel i don't have the skills to be a good instructor.(For me it is difficult to explain something in a good understandable way). And i think a good instructor is an instructor who loves to give instruction and not doing this because of the 'hour-building'.
I know how you feel but you can always start small and work your way up. Why not find the airlines that no-one has ever heard of. Small, regional airlines are always a good place to start. If you've got a type rating for a small aircraft, these airlines will throw themselves at you. Another good way to start is with start-up airlines. These guys usually don't have much money and if you get there first, you will have a very good chance of getting a job with them. It would also give you the oppertunity to maybe proceed up the ranks and stay with the airline for many years to come. Post a thread on the airlines forum and ask for any info on start-up airlines. I'm sure it will help!
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