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Old 8th Jul 2018, 05:43
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havoste
 
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With a bare CPL and mecir, your best bet if you want to stay in a big city is to do an instructor rating.
In the bush, it's not what you know its who you know. There are 200hr Cpl here that go straight onto a turbine gig, while 1000hr guys are being turned down. Keep making connections and talk to everyone.
Don't even think about flying for an airline for the first 5 or so years. The normal progression is single piston, twin piston, regional, then airline and if your lucky it could take a couple years, if the market turns south it could take 10 years+.
Big paying jobs overseas are mainly looking for experienced captains with thousands of hours command time in jets, not fresh CPLs, and rarely even FOs in the case of China. These places have an unlimited supply of local cadets they can pump through sausage factories to sit in their planes. \
It's good that you're considering these things before you start training as opposed to the hundreds who do their training then give up once they realise they can't fly a jet straight away.
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