Where they hell have all these sensible wannabies suddenly appeared from?
WWW have you put a chav filter or maybe some special script which detects MS flight sim and auto deletes the bollocks posts automatically.
Only thing I would suggest to the ones that have a bit of cash is get a share in something and go and do some interesting hour building.
Some suggestions
go and have a moose burger in the artic circle.
Go for a tapas in Gib (wouldn't land there mind)
Have a look at other things which add character to your CV.
TA is out now because they have chopped the training.
Special constable
Mountain leader course if that floats your boat.
Scout leader.
Yacht Master.
Anything which your average person doesn't do.
Most of the CV's that get sent to airlines have absolutely nothing on them to distinguish from any other 200 hour pilot.
And some of the absolute rubbish that's put out you wonder if the person was on drugs thinking that is expectable to apply as an aircraft cleaner never mind drive the thing.
In the 3 years I have had access to the pile of CV's that float around, some of them never change. There is one bloke that lives in Birmingham who over the last 3 years has done 50 hours flying and still has the 2 same spelling mistakes on his CV that he produced when he left training in 2006.
My grammar and spelling are not the best and its something I have had to deal with through out my education/careers. These days there is no excuse for getting it wrong, computers can deal with most of it. There are coaches out there who are gifted in the subject. Our own Pilot Pete on pprune used to run such a service. Never used it myself but if your CV isn't working its worth a try.
Ohh and my FO debt record is 120k from a OAT trained, 2 self sponsored TR's . They are now earning 19k a year on a turboprop. Its utter madness. 2 years ago we would never see an OAT cadet or their CV's, now there are hundreds of them. And they just don't seem to see that promoting the virtues of a 737 EFIS JOC really doesn't help your cause when you are applying to fly a 25 year old steam instrument manual turboprop.
Last edited by mad_jock; 21st October 2009 at 12:47.