Over the hill?
At 34 yrs old, do I still have a chance of landing a flying job in the near future? When I completed my initial flight training it was 1991. Not a good time to be looking for a job as an entry-level pilot. I remember applying everywhere and getting turned down instantly. Even with an Instructor Rating, jobs were very difficult to come by. And after an extremely short stint I gave up Instructing real quick. Something about trying to live off $15.00/hr of your flight time (it had to be close to living on the poverty line). Given the weather in the Toronto area you really didn’t fly that much. With a mortgage and a baby on the way I wasn’t about to move for a job as an Instructor. Fortunately I also had my post secondary education in Computer Science and had a good job in the IT field, which paid for my flight training. Well 9 years later I managed to fly 1200 hrs TT mostly in retractable high performance aircraft. With advanced systems such as Flight Directors, Altitude & Vertical Speed Pre-select, GPS Approach approved Garmin GNS430’s and King KLN89 & 90b. I have about 200 MEL and a current Group 1 Instrument Rating.
I would have to give up a pretty good job in the IT field to start working as a pilot. The question I have is how long would it take to make about 100–130k working as a pilot in Canada.