ME/CIR or Instructor's rating

[flyingbagel]

hi guys, need some advice

Will soon complete the CPL. Funds only enough for either ME/CIR or Instructor's rating.

With the airline hiring cycle now seems picking up, will you rather finish up with fATPL to hv a go for airline or get the instructor's rating to do it slowly...?

i know it's all about timing for this industry...it's really hard to decide, any advice? appreciated.

[No Country Members]

If you do the Instructor's rating do you actually want to be an instructor? If not, are you going to be a good one?

In future are you going to be able to afford to complete your CPL/IR, which is what you seem to want to do, having spent some time instructing?

[wingisland]

After the ME/IR would you have enough money to self fund a type rating, if not then thats the decision made for you, as there are very, very few companies out there giving low hour pilots a job without self funding the rating.

[FANS]

The FIR is based on the old self improver route. Unless you want a career in GA, you're wasting your time going near it as the market has fundamentally changed.