Biz Jets and Corporate Aviation in Australia

[Biggles266]

Hi all, I've recently completed my CPL and MECIR in Melbourne at Essendon Airport.
I am extremely interested in a career in Corporate Biz jets and am after some advice on how to best get into this area of the industry. The requirements I have seen are even higher than the airlines.
Any advice on how to best position myself and qualify myself to become more appealing to these operators would be much appreciated.

[Jerry Lee]

I don't even have a PPL yet, but what I can tell you is that bizjet is an industry very particular.

As FO you can have 10000 hours, all of them as PIC and on IFR flight on jet aircraft like the A380 or a Global Express, but if you know nobody you have no chance to get in. You need to know somebody in the company, or somebody that knows somebody in the company.
As you said, more hours are required than airlines usually do, thus airlines might even become a mile stone to get a seat in a bizjet.

They key word is network, network and, again, NETWORK!

[Flying Mechanic]

If i was you , head out bush or instruct, get some multiple engine and turboprop time, then u might be in position to apply for some corporate jobs. And as mentioned above it's all about contacts/ networking/ recommendations.

[Klimax]

Agree with FM,

If you goal is Biz Jet flying then work your way up through General Aviation. Tis way you will learn how to make things work out even when support is far away. Bush flying, co pilot time Metroliners, command time etc will all be useful for your future Biz Jet job. Also through General Aviation jobs you are likely to actually meet biz jet pilots around at the smaller airports and that way get some advices and hint on what going on etc.

Set aside a couple of years doing general flying whereever you may be able to land a job that pays you will you gain experience.

And if you already now know that its the biz jet part of the aviation industry you wanna go, then just forget about airlines and boring big jets. I spend 11 years in the airline industry and it freakin' boring compared to biz jet flying.

Good luck with it.