you could always get an in*******r's rating and learn how to fly, seems to be a forbidden word on this forum.
Why are people getting sucked in to this 185hour job flying large jets. If anybody got a job flying a 737 or bigger jet for an airline with less than two hundred hours please would they post the fact on this forum and lets have a count up.
I've really got the bit between my teeth about people who borrow large amounts of money for flying training - there are alternatives, I wish people would learn that.
For all those hyped 190 hour ryanair interviews there are probably 99 other people who are currently trying to find the money for a twin engined IR renewal.
The day I passed my initial IRT - on handing over the piece of paper the examiner said" congratulations 364 days to your next renewal" its not just about getting the right bits of paper regardless of what the schools say, its about getting the required level of experience to a sutainable level and keeping it there. Integrated courses im sorry to say just don't provide you with the tools do do it.
Im not even going to get into the arguement about only having flown in jerez for 12 months and then finding yourself overhead gasko inbound to teeside in some knackered regional turboprop looking like the best place for you is inside a Gin & Tonic.
It all depends on your age please dont think that I'm against integrated courses if I was totally hacked off in a job that I had worked hard in was 30 plus and needed a career change to keep sane then I would advocate jerez or oxford. Im not doubting the quality of the training, im not saying you wont be a good pilot, what im saying is that by definition you wont have experience. Which im told is quite important in becoming a professsional pilot.
I propose two polls if www or scroggs want to organise them
1. all "first jet job pilots hired within the last 12 months, how many hours did you have when you started your sim course?"
& in the rumours & news or other suitable forum
2. "How do you find sub 300 hour first officers to fly with?"
and see how your peers would feel about flying with you?
There....
feel better now.....
off for my bangers & mash..
ps look at the parental backing thread for more background