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Old 1st Mar 2021, 03:45
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Mach E Avelli
 
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Petra, if you can accept the consensus here that there won’t be any airline jobs for low hour pilots for some time to come, you need to rethink your career path. This is not to say that you will never get an airline job, just that you won’t be getting one anywhere in the world for a year or five, or worst case maybe 10.
Having spent so much time and effort getting this far you should not walk away from aviation. But if you sit on your bum in a big city awaiting that airline job, no matter how many touchy-feely add on aviation ‘courses’ you do, nothing will substitute for a thousand or so hours real flying experience.
Redsnail in post#68 mentioned tourism based flying and having a First Aid certificate. Absolutely the best way to go, but I would add a commercial passenger vehicle licence and even an inshore coxswain ticket, rather than any more aviation bull**** qualifications that will only wither on the vine due lack of any requirement. Even trying to hold on to a MECIR at 200 hours is a dubious expenditure because not too many GA operators will put a newbie into the left seat of a twin, even if their insurance would allow it.
You have to set yourself apart from the pack by offering GA tourism operators skills they can use.
Also accept that tourist flying is likely to be seasonal, so all the more reason to have other skills that can earn money.
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