I have the right to work in the US, of course. I only need to get FAA licenses,
afaik i'll have to do few flight hours + theorical exam + check ride, so that should take a month or 2 at most. Regarding the instructor thing... well, i dont like what i see here at my local school (they barely fly and the conditions and pay are crap), tho it could be very different over there. As a low timer i wont reject anything, of course, if i have the possibility to get hours as a flight instructor i'll go for it, but im not sure about investing on the instructor course when i could get multi time in skydiving operations, of course i'd have to buy some flight time to get that first job... soooooo complicated
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So far my plan is to go to Tampa where i have family to live with (jan/feb 2007), get my FAA ratings and then decide what to do, i dont care if its alaska or arizona as long as i can fly as much as possible, skydiving operations, instructing, whatever. I dont really know how things work there, so first thing is to find out
. At least i'd like to get some ME time so i can go back to europe with something to offer. Time requirements here are much lower than in the US, 1000 or 1500TT with 500 ME and some contacts should be enough to give me a chance in the european market. But again, i have no idea about where i'm going to be in 5 years time
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So what do you think it'd be the best i could do? Lucky me the euro is very high now, so i'll have plenty of dollars to start with. Its not that i can throw them away, but i could pay for a few hundred hours or a typerating if needed.