Originally Posted by
bakerin
Thank you and good luck to you - you're right in saying they tend to refer you if it's 50/50 rather than passing you to be safe I assume.
Mind talking a bit more about these programmes? Not something I've considered as I currently have no flying experience other than a couple of logged hours (like literally a couple).
I'd assume they'd be picking people who are instructors etc and already have a couple thousand hours rather than picking someone to go from zero to hero
Almost the exact opposite. Airlines want two types of people
- Licence holders with 500+ hours or 100+ sectors on a ZFT qualifying aircraft. Google CS-25 aircraft. Basically anything that carries 20+ passengers fits the bill. This means you are easy to train and don’t have to do base training. Cheap
- Brand new flight school graduates. Fresh out the system, don’t have years of bad habits, generally willing to foot some of the bill for the training, can be paid less. Cheap.
What they don’t want I’m afraid is flight instructors. You may well get good experience with a few years flying around in a 172, but for multi-crew operations this is all, on paper at least which is what their finance department cares about, completely useless.
If you want to be a flight instructor, become a flight instructor, could be great fun. But if you want to become an airline pilot, just become an airline pilot.