Hi everyone,
This will be loosely based round the general topic.
I am a pilot with bare minimum hours etc etc one of a million looking for a first job in Australia. Also keep in mind I have only got the right to work and live in Australia and nowhere else.
My question is: What is the situation in the US regarding the simplest of jobs in the oldest and slowest of aircraft. Does any one over want to do them? Do these jobs exist?
I know that over here the pilot progressions starts with single engined charter in the outback some where until you reach around 1000 hours then the wide world of multi engined charter arrives (Beech Barons and Piper Navajo's yay). This is usually followed from about 1500 hours by progression into a major GA company flying right hand kero, or the right hand seat in a regional major domestic / international airline. I personally have been living in Darwin for about a year now looking for (and dreaming of) the simplest of flying jobs and everyone else in the world seems to be bickering that they haven't cracked a turbine job yet!!!! What is going on!!!!!!!
What would your typical US pilot have in comparison for job prospects?
I am now hearing from other itinerant Australians, ex-pat Americans and through forums such as this that there is a "shortage" (please don't bite my head off for using that word)of pilots in the lower echelons of the US GA industry. Is there a place for a person such as myself who only wants a couple of hundred hours to build the time to make myself more marketable to companies back home?
Your input would be greatly appreciated.