Well i know this question seems a bit pointless but I would like to invite anyone who can give me some reassurance.Regarding flight hours
I would post this on the wannabes forum but I would get shoyt down and be told to stop complaining , however I am in between being a wannabe airline chap and a contract pilot to pay the rent!
I know that airlines like certain amount of types and time on your licenses
I hold a SA ATPL I dd instructing only on single pistons after having gained 1600hours on cessna 150/Cherokee stuff, to get out of that I managed to convince an operator I wasn't a nuisance in a cockpit and I could be trained on something else managed to get a job on Grand Caravan flying around Central Africa a truley amazing experience 1000hours I got with that.
Then I was able to get a couple of hundred hours on twins but the king air broke and I was without a job. So I am about to finish the JAA IR over here in the UK as I would like an Airline career - always have . In order to top up the bank account for the rest of the license plus the weather for the cpl bit is not brill at the moement, my old company wants me to go back for a couple of months on Caravan - again more single hours, the money is well needed.
I am aware that there are plenty who have no job at this time so I seem a little un-greatful but having 'all' these single hours is makeing my logbook way to heavy on the single engine piston and single engine turbine time.
Should I stop logging the hours? I know it sounds peculiar to say and by the way anyone who has done ANY single pilot IFR over the equatorial regions is quite a lonely and sometimes frightening and challenging experience but what to do I do ? Lie and say I have 1000 hours total then it makes my twin turbine time stand out or what?. I sometimes like to play down how many hours I have which seems also wrong. Ultimately if someone should take me on where you log 800hrs of twin jet or twin turbine a year; after my JAA conversion down the line then I guess this conversataion becomes irrelevent.Anyway any advice, tips and pointers welcome airline people
DD
