Ex-frontline military pilot, 4-figure number of hours, first attempt good passes at all ground and flying tests for fATPL, 30ish, applied to virtually every aircraft operator on Earth including 'twin prop taxi' since qualifying about a year ago.
Number of interviews in that time? Go on guess. Let's just say it's less than 2.
Those that say they'd be happy to settle for air taxi work / instructing / ferrying etc etc, don't seem to realise that the jobs market is totally f**ked (sorry, I mean flooded) all the way from Senior Captains on heavies all the way down to glider tug pilots who work for nothing. Hell, I've had to spend the last few months working in a coffee shop to scrape by and even there we've been getting about 100 applications for each position that comes up (and I'm only there because the temping agencies have more regulars already on their books than vacancies).
Good time to embark on a career change? Errr, no.
Last edited by Torque Tonight; 16th Jul 2009 at 17:53.