Originally Posted by
VariablePitchP
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.
I couldn’t disagree with you more.
In the US 80% take the instructor route to get to the airlines.
In Europe you have the choice to either sit on your parents couch with 200hrs and a “frozen” ATPL or you can be smart and anticipate and have 1500 hrs (albeit little airplanes ) when you need to start looking outside of the EU for a job.
I find it hard to believe the arrogance in your statement.
- Former CFI / current airline pilot.