Massey University's E110 ZK-ECM?
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Look, disregarding the Chinese students here I don't believe that doing 50hrs or whatever in a bandit is really going to help your cause.
Let's take the fresh commercial pilot with MEIFR. Their two prospective paths are either instructing or GA.
Now 50hrs turbine isn't really going to help you get a job instructing as it isn't very pertinent to the brand spanking new PPL that has just walked through the door. Once you have been instructing for a while it may seem tempting to go and get the rating but genuine single pilot MEIFR is better.
Nor is it very aplicable to the local GA operators. I live in the Auckland area so let's use Mtn Air/ GBA as an example. They are looking for people who have recently achieved MEIFR status so they can nurture them through the ranks. Again bandit time isn't all that aplicable. Sure GBA has a nomad but you won't touch it until you have about 1300 hours and have been with the company for some time I believe.
In short I think that your money is far better spent charging around the country doing SINGLE PILOT IFR, preferably in something reasonably fast like a chieftan. This is far more respectable than sitting in the right hand seat of a bandit with someone letting you do the easy parts.
Let's take the fresh commercial pilot with MEIFR. Their two prospective paths are either instructing or GA.
Now 50hrs turbine isn't really going to help you get a job instructing as it isn't very pertinent to the brand spanking new PPL that has just walked through the door. Once you have been instructing for a while it may seem tempting to go and get the rating but genuine single pilot MEIFR is better.
Nor is it very aplicable to the local GA operators. I live in the Auckland area so let's use Mtn Air/ GBA as an example. They are looking for people who have recently achieved MEIFR status so they can nurture them through the ranks. Again bandit time isn't all that aplicable. Sure GBA has a nomad but you won't touch it until you have about 1300 hours and have been with the company for some time I believe.
In short I think that your money is far better spent charging around the country doing SINGLE PILOT IFR, preferably in something reasonably fast like a chieftan. This is far more respectable than sitting in the right hand seat of a bandit with someone letting you do the easy parts.
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flyby & GAMAN - true. I hate to see people are leaping feet first into aviation, thinking student loans means it doesn't matter how much it costs. We'll end up with a bunch of pilots still struggling for that first $10/hr job, just with bigger debts than before.
In case anyone misunderstands - until Air NZ starts employing sub-500 hour pilots I would not advise someone to do a course because of student loan funding or a short stint of turbine time. Neither are of much use in the long run I think, as already said by others. I tell my students that too if they ask...
In case anyone misunderstands - until Air NZ starts employing sub-500 hour pilots I would not advise someone to do a course because of student loan funding or a short stint of turbine time. Neither are of much use in the long run I think, as already said by others. I tell my students that too if they ask...
