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Old 1st August 2001 | 07:05
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zerozero
 
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From: Chicago, IL, USA
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Whoa! Hang on! Please don't make a decision to pack your bags and move to a different country just because of what I write here.

Yes, it's true that a Dutch man with an FAA commercial certificate and 300 hours could find a job, but you need to know the following:

With less than 1000 hours you're really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

In fact with less than 1200 hours you can't act as PIC on a 135 (air taxi) IFR flight. And with less than 500 hours you cannot act as PIC on a 135 VFR flight.

Now you're relegated to flight instruction (you need to get a US CFI obviously), banner tow, crop dusting, traffic watch, pipeline/fire patrol, fish spotting...et cetera.

See what I'm getting at? You'd be kinda pissed at me if I said, "Yeah, come on over and you'll be sitting in the right seat of a turbo-prop."

While it's possible you could get a job flying in the right seat of a turbo-prop you'd probably do yourself a favor (and your future captains as well) if you came over and taught people how to fly for a thousand hours or so.

You never learn a subject so well as when you teach it. It'll make you a better pilot.

I think that's a more realistic option at this point.

Feel free to follow up.

Fly safe.
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