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Old 7th August 2023 | 21:43
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1201alarm
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Frankly, I would pursue other avenues to reach your pilots licence. As fascinating as the big jets are, it is not good to start your career on longhaul.

You want to train your skills on shorthaul when you are young, up and down, many takeoffs and landings, to fill your bag of experience. There is a reason most longhaul only airlines expect a few thousand hours of experience before they let you into their flightdeck. You need your bag of experience filled before you switch over to only 3 landings a month.

The exception are localisation cadetships for whatever reason in certain countries and airlines - but not for skill reason. I always wondered how it is to be a pilot that started directly on autopilot and cruising the world having on 150 landings after 5 years into the career. While as a shorthaul FO you make about 1500 landings in the same time. And tell you what: up and down is a lot of fun when you are young.
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