- Keep your IF skills current (even if just practicing procedures with FS2004).
- Hire a large transport aircraft sim with other wannabees to prepare for sim checks
- Get around all the gliding clubs for summer towing jobs to build the hours
- Get an FIC
- Do whatever it takes to get into the airline industry (dispatch, ops, crewing,
cleaner, whatever!) to show that you're keen and get connected. Many
wannabees will get jobs through inside industry info, most of which will never
appear on the web.
I personally do not know of any 200 hr FATPL who has got a job through sending off CV's though i'm sure there are many! All the wannabees I know who got jobs did so through contacts and earning a wage in other areas of the industry.