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Old 25th Sep 2002, 14:59
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Charlie Foxtrot India
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I'd recommend going out for a few hundred hours and learning how to fly visually first.

As has been mentioned, chances are slim that you will get a multi IFR job with only a handful of hours. In the early days you are more likely to be doing single engine stuff, and there is no single engine pax carrying IFR.

Most people I know who have done the IFR early on have found it an expensive burden to keep current, even with the barest minimum required for currency, nd feel disollusioned that they wre talked into parting with all that money.

As for the sticky situation, well good luck in having no pax on board, an IFR aeroplane, all your current jepps handy and being current in whatever approach may be required. Cos otherwise you are no safer than a CPL with the minimum ten hours.

And instructor ratings should only be undertaken by those who want to teach people to fly.

Of course the big shiny flying schools who want your money would disagree!
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