six-sixty
1st May 2005, 15:43
Hi everyone thought I'd seek some advice from people who may have been in a similar situation.
I'm finishing the IR very soon and am getting to the stage where I need a plan for life afterwards. By the time I finish I'll have the not so grand total of about 290 hrs, and I'm a coffin-dodging 37 years of age.
From talking to people currently in, just got in, and trying to get into the industry it looks like the market is ok if you've got over 6 or 7 hundred hours, or perhaps lower if you've got a couple of hundred multi-engine hours
I can either go the instructor route, or go back to my old quite well paid life for a spell of contract work and build up lots of ME hours at weekends, flying IFR round the country/abroad taking the wife shopping etc. I'm aware in the back of my mind I could also go buy a Type, but I've sort of discounted that for the time being for lots of reasons.
So I'd be interested to hear people's views - what would look better to an employer (I'm thinking of TP/jet operator rather than air taxi) - 700 odd hrs batting around in a cessna, or fewer but still a good number of ME hours?
Ideally I'd love to instruct, but poor/no pay for at least another year is really making me reluctant, and my wife's sense of humour is definitely not the same as when I started this caper. So, whaddya all think?
cheers, SS
I'm finishing the IR very soon and am getting to the stage where I need a plan for life afterwards. By the time I finish I'll have the not so grand total of about 290 hrs, and I'm a coffin-dodging 37 years of age.
From talking to people currently in, just got in, and trying to get into the industry it looks like the market is ok if you've got over 6 or 7 hundred hours, or perhaps lower if you've got a couple of hundred multi-engine hours
I can either go the instructor route, or go back to my old quite well paid life for a spell of contract work and build up lots of ME hours at weekends, flying IFR round the country/abroad taking the wife shopping etc. I'm aware in the back of my mind I could also go buy a Type, but I've sort of discounted that for the time being for lots of reasons.
So I'd be interested to hear people's views - what would look better to an employer (I'm thinking of TP/jet operator rather than air taxi) - 700 odd hrs batting around in a cessna, or fewer but still a good number of ME hours?
Ideally I'd love to instruct, but poor/no pay for at least another year is really making me reluctant, and my wife's sense of humour is definitely not the same as when I started this caper. So, whaddya all think?
cheers, SS