Originally Posted by 9M-
Ok...didnt know i leak out my job that way heh. Anyway yes i am an instructor with a malaysian flying club but i will not say which one. For me the journey is a tough one. I started learning to fly while in Aus doing my degree. Got my PPL there and came back to singapore. Knew working as deskjob is not my ideal working life. Also i just cannot get over flying therefore i seek out revenues that can help me move on in this line.
Search around singapore and dont really see much prospect. Therefore i went to malaysia to learn flying. Converted my license to a malaysian one and from there began to clock hours by flying around malaysia. (To be an afi one needs 150hours solo time.)
Thereafter went to KL for 3 months to do my instructor rating course. Life in KL is tough...bad weather, bad living condition due to cheap motel..sigh
After i got my instructor rating began to teach. I must say teaching something u love is really a nice thing to be doing. The sense of satisfaction when students go for their first solo or pass their ppl is sensational. Anyway after accumulating 500 total hours, i am eligible to take the UkCAA papers and i took a total of about 21 papers technical and navagations. Did a CPL flight test and got a CPL. Afterwhich i continue to do the ATPL papers which are actually the same as the CPL papers. Just doing it another time and got my frozen ATPL.
So thats my life so far..wanted to give up many times due to many obstacles but there is just one thing that kept me goin :- the passion of flying. Cheers
Wow! You are one really determined guy (or gal??
). So you starting instructing while you were still a PPL holder? And you paid your way through the 150 hrs solo time before qualifying for AFI training?
I'm very similar to you. Also did my degree in Aus, came back and been working for 2 years. Absolutely no interest whatsoever in my job
. Always thinking of flying.
What are your plans? Do you intend to continue instructing for long term? Or do you wish to move on to the airlines? Do you know of other Singaporeans who are also instructors in Malaysia or perhaps have moved on to the airlines?
Have you tried applying to any of the Malaysian operators like Air Asia, Berjaya Air or Transmile?
Thanks!