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Old 23rd Feb 2016, 05:48
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Thanks for the replies. Unfortunately, I'm having no luck with that document.

In the US, after completing training, becoming a CFI is the necessary step you take to build time. I wonder how this works in Europe? There doesn't seem to be the same hierarchy of CFI to 'actual job'. I hear that freshly qualified graduates can walk straight into the RHS of a jet on a frozen atpl. Does this not, then, eliminate the need for CFIs? I would assume the need for flight instructing (time building) is rendered useless from this very fact?

If this is so, then how comes I see lots of people with 350-700 hours flight time? In other words, how have they amassed the extra hours without working as a CFI?

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