Originally Posted by
Iflyplainplanes
Exactly. For modular it’s about timing, and if the timing isn’t right expect to either instruct for a period of time or try to fit in keeping current whilst working a normal job. Hope you don’t have a life getting in the way of the latter there.
Theres a lot of courses that offer 0-hero and people are willing to pay and they do succeed. It means those who can’t pay take alternate /modular paths, nothing wrong with that of course, but so much is geared for integrated/MPL schemes. People should know that they may take years to get where a peer that can pay may do it in 2ish years.
Ryanair, Wizz, Jet2, BA and CityFlyer do not worry about where you trained. Instructing will get your foot in the door with companies like Eastern and Loganair. I know a few 250hr modular pilots that have been taken on by Aurigny amongst other airlines straight from training. Air Tanker occasionally take low hour pilots, some come from the modular instructing route. Think it’s important to broaden horizons away from just airline flying initially, but also be cautious not to get stuck in a rut flying smaller aircraft around for specialist operators, unless you want to make a career out of it of course. TUI will take applications occasionally from people with 500 hours of flying no matter what, though admittedly having 500 hours on a multi crew jet/TP with minimum MTOW of 10tonnes will cut a chunk of competition out. There is a heavy bias towards integrated students, there always has been unfortunately. Other aviation jobs can help, though it’s by no means a guarantee. What working in the industry does is provide contacts, and those contacts can materialise into jobs that sometimes barely get advertised.
When it comes to life though, I have to agree. Sacrifices do have to be made. Instructing is a great way to get a foot in the door, it’s also highly rewarding. Only do it if you want to give something back. Do not use it purely as a way to build hours, it’s not fair on your students.