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Old 9th Feb 2004, 10:42
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ArcherII
 
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Well, for the past 2 years I've been gaining information on fixed-wing career paths, and the rotary wing thing is just a curiosity, perhaps one day an option.

I just find the path for both fixed wing, and more so rotary wing very amazing, discouraging and wrong.

Young people who want to live their lives in the skies...have to put up with immense sums of money for training and only a couple of paths to their dream job.

Becoming an instructor, fixed wing or rotary, seems the only choice, as that's the only way to get hired with a couple hundred hours...

The requirements are out there. Most employers that have decent pay checks require thousands of hours of flight time, whether fixed or rotary.

The only employers that will hire at a couple of hundred hours are flight schools.

So the only path seems, pay $$$ to train, bust your but, get hired as a CFI, whether you like it or not, live miserably for several years trying to build time and working nearly for free to finally end up to where you want to be (maybe), when you are old, in debt, and lived miserably for a lot of precious, irrecuperable years...

seems best thing to do is find a non-flying job, make some money, but an R22 or a Piper, build time over the years...and then apply for jobs once you have those thousands of hours...
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