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Old 20th Jan 2006, 13:50
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Sorry to be honest but even if you are type rated, airlines want at least 300 hours on type. I have also been looking for a year after I got my A320 rating so I decided to pay my line training in order to get this experience. If you are lucky, you may be able to deal directly with an airline otherwise you should put your name right now on the list of Eaglejet as you will wait for almost a year and believe me there is a lot of guys presently doing the line up!
A friend of mine has just completed his type rating and he has more than 4000 hrs with 3000 turbo. He is presently in Asia and went to talk to Tiger, Valuair etc., they need qualified pilots but with hours on type! Once you have an ATPL the total time is not the problem, it's the quality of the hours that you have.
The fact is that even if you pay your line training you will have to wait because airlines are so short of training captains.
Good luck!
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