Advice on the Australian way of life
Hello everyone,
I am a freshly qualified Commercial pilot trying to pick up the all illusive first job over in Australia (from NZ) and have made the mission up to the NT to try pick up a job doing anything that will put me in a seat, after already doing the rounds of all the flight schools in Melbourne to no avail unfortunately.
I hold a CPL, MCEIR and a Grade 3 with 320TT. I would be happy to use my instructors rating or go charter flying (hence why I am in the north at present) or meat bombing or a combination of all of these, just what ever I can do to get my hands on a yoke and bum in a seat really, which I realise takes a bit of hard work to sometimes achieve and does not frighten me in the slightest doing. In the venture North, I came with the thought there may have been a bit more going by way of hiring on coming into the dry season, but since as I have been round everywhere a couple of times and receive the same foggy replies at most unfortunately, I realise that this is not such the case. Realising that the NT is a boom or bust situation, have since said to myself that I am willing to really go to any state to get a start at almost a days notice.
Any advice or guidance as to plan of attack to do something would be much appreciated and will hopefully help a few of the other young guys in my shoes out there too. It is a bit tricky going on information that is a few years old and as well being on operators that have since fallen over or have changed fleets, so a more recent and accurate thread of the current situation in Aussie would be of much benefit to a few of us I am sure.
Look forward to your responses and thanks for your time!