If you got the money?
Head south, both Arizona and Florida schools/FBOs that can take you from nothing to private, multi, instrument, commercial and onto ATP. Plan about four weeks, maybe less, for the private. Then buy something that is cheap to fly. Would be nice to have about 1200 hours left of the engine. The slower and least gallons per hour to keep the cost down. Fly as many hours a day as you can. Make most of the days, a landing at least a couple of different airports, helps build cross country time. After you are getting close to a couple of hundred hours, back to the school house for instrument, commercial and multi ratings. Maybe even look at getting an instructor rating while your at it. With instructor rating, some one else is footing the bill. Then its back to building hours. While you are at it, start looking for some corporate work. Could be a gas company that need their ground lines inspected from the air. Or, maybe a FBO needs some planes moved around. What this all leads to is getting at least 1500 hours and the time needed for the ATP. With that start looking at some of the commuter companies, Comair etc. This should get you the turbine time needed to move.
Once you get about 500 to 1000 hours of jet time you'll will start being attractive to the larger legacy carriers.
I'd say you are looking at a minimum of three years or more likely five.
Good luck!
Last edited by mustangsally; 29th Oct 2015 at 19:43.