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Old 26th June 2006 | 18:44
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Astra driver
 
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From: Los Angeles
Married2apilot;

From reading your posts it almost seems to me that your are working harder at your husbands' goal of becoming a proffesional pilot than he is. (He is very fortunate to be married to someone like yourself)

Bottom line is this; if your hubby really wants a good paying flying job he needs to realize that with 250 hours and a Commercial certificate he is only 10% of the way there. He needs to buckle down, build hours anyway he can, ideally by working on more ratings such as a CFI, followed by his CFII, Multi-engine rating and his MEI. By doing this, he will be building his hours [U]and[U] his proffesional capability at the same time. All this costs money, so he will need a part time (or even a full time) job to pay for the ratings as well as put food on the table.

Do not under any circumstances pay for a type rating at this point. With less than 1500 hours (or even 2500) a type rating is worthless, and if you stick to your plan you can get someone else to pay for it when you are qualified.

I don't know much about hiring practices in europe, but I'm sure that 250 hours and a commercial aren't going to do much either, I expect a 1,000 hours is more like a reasonable minimum, so anyway he looks at it he is just going to have pay his dues like the rest of us.

I wish you both the best of luck.
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