- Get an FI rating and instruct.
- Go back to your old non-aviation job and try to earn enough money to keep current.
- Buy a Shed type rating.
- Tow gliders.
- Fly for an air taxi outfit.
- Find an aerial photography job.
(In rough order of popularity)
Basically do anything that keeps your head above water and keeps the hours tally going upwards.
In a good job market (before 11-SEP) it is not easy but by no means unheard of for a low-timer to get an airline job straight away.
In this marketplace with so many pilots with airline experience on the dole, low-timers are just not getting a look in. Being an unemployed low-time (f)ATPL myself, I can vouch for that.
It's never been easy out there but it's bloody difficult at the moment. It's all about market economics - even in the good times there are more qualified pilots than airline jobs available so it's always a buyers market.
Keep your chin up mate, but do go in with your eyes open. Getting the licence is just the first hurdle.
foggy.
[ 21 November 2001: Message edited by: foghorn ]