Lord Flashart
30th Jun 2006, 00:02
Hi all,
I'm totally new to this (0hrs) and soon going to start a modular course towards an fATPL (that is if my colour vision doesn't get me first), with an eventual aim of jet jockying, but in the meantime between fATPL and airline job I'd like to earn something from flying and broaden my experience.
I hear a lot of talk about instructing to broaden experience and gain hours - how much will it cost me to do an instructor rating course? Are instructor jobs easy to come by? Can I make a "scrape-by" living doing it for a year or two?
What about charter - is it easy (relatively) to get into with 250 odd hours fATPL?
What other options for making some sort of living from flying in the first few years whilst gaining hours are there? I'll make clear now that I don't expect to make a fortune, mainly just to be flying and paying back the loans whilst getting more hours into the bargain.
I take it also that airlines prefer multi-crew flying experience, what options other than charter are there for this?
Hope these questions haven't been answered too many times before - to be honest I feel like I may not even know enough right now to be asking the right questions.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
Flashart.
I'm totally new to this (0hrs) and soon going to start a modular course towards an fATPL (that is if my colour vision doesn't get me first), with an eventual aim of jet jockying, but in the meantime between fATPL and airline job I'd like to earn something from flying and broaden my experience.
I hear a lot of talk about instructing to broaden experience and gain hours - how much will it cost me to do an instructor rating course? Are instructor jobs easy to come by? Can I make a "scrape-by" living doing it for a year or two?
What about charter - is it easy (relatively) to get into with 250 odd hours fATPL?
What other options for making some sort of living from flying in the first few years whilst gaining hours are there? I'll make clear now that I don't expect to make a fortune, mainly just to be flying and paying back the loans whilst getting more hours into the bargain.
I take it also that airlines prefer multi-crew flying experience, what options other than charter are there for this?
Hope these questions haven't been answered too many times before - to be honest I feel like I may not even know enough right now to be asking the right questions.
Any advice greatly appreciated.
Flashart.