Originally Posted by
pineteam
You pack your bag and you go job hunting in Africa like I did. Easy right?
Fun fact: in my country, flying in the bush in Africa, will drastically decrease the chance of getting a job at an airline when you get back.
When applying for a airline job, your background is checked and any (recent) years in a country with less than decent administration will result in a gap in your whereabouts, causing you to fail the background check and therefore make you ineligible for the job.
Few years ago this was a big problem with guys flying in Indonesië, I Imagine Africa would be even worse.
Besides that, how many jobs are there in the bush? I am guessing not enough, by far, to give every future airline pilot that experience, besides the point that, in my part of the world, you can spend up to 100.000 euro for training, which the bank really wants back when you are earning next to nothing flying medicin to a village.