what can you do with 1000 hours?

["V"]

Hi all,

Just wondering in Canada and the USA what you could expect to be flying around in once who've reached 1000 hours? (mostly command in single pilot charter).

Thanks,

V

["V"]

Surely SOMEONE must know what you can do with 1000 hours total time in canada!!!!

stop being so shy people!

V

[doubleremix]

I'd say that depends on a couple of factors:
1) What sort of time it is.
2) How lucky you are.

At a thousand hours, I know some people who are still instructing and some who are getting close to upgrading to multi-turbine command.

["V"]

Thanks for the reply doubleremix!

Admittedly i'm an expat from Australia so the time is mainly single engine VFR. I'm going to be in Vancouver and Calgarry in a month do you know of anyone who might give me a look in?

V

[flywestjetcr]

Hey V,

1000 hours is a good starting point when looking for work. Currently Air Canada, Westjet and Jazz airlines are hiring which enables movement in the lower industry positions. I would venture that most SE work would be found in flying floats (West Coast) and pipe line patrol in Alberta. If you have your ME/IFR I would push CMA, NT AIR, Pacific Coastal (BC) and Sunwest and Ken Borek in Calgary. I think you'll find though that in Canada you'll need to "camp out" and become a "local" in the company of choices hometown. 1000 hours probably won't get your resume viewed without some repetitive "face" time. Best of luck !!

["V"]

Thanks flywest,

Do companies in Canada care if you're an expat?

Cheers again

V

[flywestjetcr]

I've only met a few expats. A kiwi, an aussie, a brit and a russian....So expats are not as common as they might be in asia. I don't believe companys in Canada are adverse as long as you hold the right to work here, have the qualifications, and at the end of the day have the right attitude(ie good guy to work with) you'll get the job. Best o luck !!

[flynfiddle]

But isn't 1000 hours of instructing merely an hour 1000 times??

[Chuck Ellsworth]

V :

A thousand hours of single engine charter is a lot of time.
Aviation generally puts far to much importance on hours, some pilots are very skilled at 1000 hours and some are lucky to stay alive each flight.

So if you can show that not only can you fly safely but you can think clearly and work in the best intrest of an employer your thousand hours are plenty.

All the best.

Chuck E.

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[VeRmiLLioN]

Originally Posted by flynfiddle

But isn't 1000 hours of instructing merely an hour 1000 times??

...with a lot of take-off and landings.

Time is time. Except for turbine/Piston time.

[Chuck Ellsworth]

" Time is time. Except for turbine/Piston time. "

What exactly do you mean?

Is there some magic between the two besides the fact that turbines are more simple to start and manage?

[sepia]

the turbine tents to be bolted onto an aircraft with more complex systems.

[Chuck Ellsworth]

So am I to understand that the Super Connie was less complex from a crew operating standpoint than say an A330?

[sepia]

The pistion time in question wouldn't be on radials so your point is moot. The aircraft that currently fly that do use radials are about as easy to operate as they come. Beavers and Otters don't exactly have the same complexity as a PC-12.

[Chuck Ellsworth]

You are correct Sepia, there is definately a big difference between a piston engine Beaver / Otter and a PC12 not only in how they fly but the environment they fly in.

Having agreed with that would you not agree that a good pilot with 1000 hours could easily fly either type, piston or turbine?

After all none of them are really all that difficult to operate, hell there are heavy construction machines such as an excavator that require far more dexterity to operate properly than these basic flying machines.

So back to the 1000 hour thing, I think that is a lot of time to become a good pilot.

[sepia]

I don't think you could be a PC-12 captain with 1000hrs. Most companies are asking for 2500hrs with 1000PIC, which seems a bit excessive. 1000hrs wouldn't give you the experience base to deal with icing, gravel strips, high density IFR, etc that a PC-12 captain would have to deal with. I think 1500-2000hrs with a very solid experience background would be about as low as you could reasonably go on a PC-12 in Canada.

[Chuck Ellsworth]

Well I guess I have lost touch with aviation and what it takes to fly something like a PC12.

I used to think that someone like the guy who started this thread that has 1000 hours mostly single engine charter would have no problem with a PC12, but I guess the world has changed and they are making modern aircraft far more difficult for pilots to fly.

But I really am interested in what others think about this business, sure I can see where Canada would have climatic and terrain differences that can be more demanding than a lot of other countries but I don't see where Canada would be all that more different as far as high density IFR goes.

Then again like I have said before we all have different levels of what we feel is difficult and the safest pilots are those who know their limitations.

Incidently just for curiositys sake Sepia where would you put aerial application on the difficulty to do scale with relation to flying IFR in a turbine?

[sepia]

I've never flown a spray plane so I couldn't comment. A PC-12 has identical performace numbers as a king air 200. Surely you don't think it's a good Idea to have a king air 200 captain with 1000hrs?

[Chuck Ellsworth]

" Surely you don't think it's a good Idea to have a king air 200 captain with 1000hrs? "

That would all depend on the pilot and his/her training and type of flying they did during that 1000 hours.

If any pilot can not learn to fly a KA 200 or any other airplane of that type in a thousand hours they are in the wrong business.

As far as ag work goes it takes far more airplane handling skills than flying a small turbine IFR being led by the hand by ATC most of the time, or watching the thing fly its self on auto pilot.

And it does not take 1000 hours TT to fly ag work.

It is really interesting the different ideas we have about flying, sometimes I wonder how it became so difficult over the past several decades.