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Old 4th Jan 2012, 13:30
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Well Piltdown and Smash bugger are not really giving you proper advice. First of all, you have to get out of turboprop flying and into jet flying as fast as you can. Unfortunately, the status of pilot hiring is requiring jet time more and more as well as JET PIC. Turboprop time is getting meaningless. I had lots of turboprop time in my younger days but those type ratings are useless in the contract world or carry much less weight on a FedEx computerized weighting system and so on. You need to do whatever you can to get into jet time first, then get into the left time as fast as you can to get 1000 hours of jet PIC. Get into an aircraft with a good type rating that can be useful in the contract world in case you decide to fly for a US carrier and crap starts hitting the fan, like it has been for awhile. Now with that being said, and you want to get out to the Middle East, you can see how long it will take you to move up to F/O then see how Qatar's program is for upgrade to CAP or better yet to a bigger jet F/O position like B737 or A320. Then your moving.
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