Moving to another country as a pilot.
Hello every one, this is my first post and I hope it’s in the right place. I’m a 28 years old pilot, has logged a proximally 3.000h total time, most of them on the Embraer 120 Brasilia (2600h), I also hold an ATPL and a some Captain experience (less than 100h) on the E120. For the past 4 years I’ve been working for Embraer Brasil training pilots on the E120 simulator, which I think was one of the best experience I’ve got so far. Last March I left the simulator instructor position at Embraer and was hired by the fastest growing airline in my country to fly A320 as co-pilot, right now I’m on enroute training. I things work well for me I expect to be flying the A330 on the international lines within the next 2 years or so and dream about be promoted to captain within the next 5 to 7 years, they say it can be done much faster, but I like to consider the worst case scenario.
Anyway, every thing would just be perfect for a rookie pilot like me if it wasn’t for on small detail, I live in Brazil. Unfortunally, because of the violence it has become impossible to continue to live in this country, last year I had my wife held hostage by a “kid” with a knife while they took my car, and a month later she got herself in the same situation when 3 guys stole her dentist’s car at 8 o’clock in the morning! People say that Brazil is now a second world country that soon will be a first world country, well… all I have to say is that right now I feel that I live in a “last” world country.
So I’d like to gather some ideas and opinions from the experienced pilots on what would be my options if I decided to move from Brazil and try to live on a better country. I know that with the experience that I have right now I can not make very far, but maybe when I log some consistent A320 and A330 time I’d have a chance in any other country. But besides the logbook I understand there are a lots of things to be taken care of in order to be able to work in another country, specially considering my ICAO license and my Brazilian passport. I wonder on which countries I’d have a better chance to be able to get a work permission considering all I said above? As you can see I’m not after big money, just a safe place to raise my kids, and live my life as a pilot.
Thanks all!