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Old 20th July 2002 | 19:18
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Smokie
 
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Horses for courses dear boy ! Flying a C 182 will probably help geting a non paying but hours building job at the week ends down at your local Parachute club. If you happen to have a multi rating then you might get a sniff of their Islander.

If you have 300-500hours in the BN2a then you may get a sniff at Job flying say C404 or a Chieftan Navajo or perhaps if you are really lucky a EMB 110 Bandit or SD-360.
Then and only then, with sufficiant turbine time, will you be considered by the" Airlines " for a Jet job.

The bottom line is that most Airlines want to see that you have "Done your Apprenticeship"

Unless you or Daddy have a rather large wallet whereby you can sign up for a course at CTC, then I'm afraid that you will have to join the Que with the rest of the wannabes.

Yes I did all of the above except the CTC bit and nobody gave a toss about my hundereds of hours in the DC3.

Good luck and be patient: cool:
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