Boeing B737 jobs?
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Eagle Jet used to offer line training. Think you had to pay for it though. You've already forked out a load of money which may be in vain if you don't get lucky with an airline, or are willing to spend more.
We've read all the arguments about paying for ratings etc.....so please don't waste your time posting the same old stuff.
Anyway, best of luck in your search of the first step on the ladder.
We've read all the arguments about paying for ratings etc.....so please don't waste your time posting the same old stuff.
Anyway, best of luck in your search of the first step on the ladder.
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Well done Davide
Nice to see someone waste their money. Only people that do well out of you trying to buy yourself a job are those who run the type rating centres.
I'd love to know how many people have got 737 and A320 ratings this year.
Its these people that screw it up for the rest.
Happy hunting
Nice to see someone waste their money. Only people that do well out of you trying to buy yourself a job are those who run the type rating centres.
I'd love to know how many people have got 737 and A320 ratings this year.
Its these people that screw it up for the rest.
Happy hunting
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Vanpilot, well said mate. What kind of clown, having forked out 30+k for initial training then forks out 20k for a potentially useless tr and is then willing to not only work for free, but even PAY an airline to work for them? Do these people live in the real world? THEY ARE MUGS, PURE AND SIMPLE. It is only because airline pilot is perceived to be such a "dream job" that these dreamers, who probably have no real concept of the day to day mundanity of the job, are willing to do this.
Imangine the headlines, "Macdonalds workers, so desperate they are even willing to pay for their own "big mac rating"". Absurd of course, so why should aviation be any different? Its only a fooking job! A job is by defnition meant to make you money, not cause you to spend it.
It is idiots like these that ruin the whole pilot recruitment game for the rest of us. So you think that with 200 hrs youre entitled to jump from a 4 seater twin to a 200 seat 737? Like a fresh uni graduate should be running a company in their first job?
Wannabe pilots, if theyre really serious and actually enjoy flying, should have no bones about working their way up through the industry, ie instructor, to perhaps air taxi, to perhaps turbo prop, to jet.
I know of, and am sure that there are many more pilots out there who have reached the "big time" through hard work and perserverence, with minimum cash expenditure, and have really earnt the right to be where they are.
Then you get idiots who, with their big pot of cash try to leapfrog the whole process. These are perhaps the same kind of fools that are prepared to pay the likes of OAT an additional 30grand for their intial training, principally for the perceived promise of better job prospects.
In my mind, anyone who feels the need to try to increase their job prospects through the speculative spending of obscene amounts of money, lacks character, deserves no respect and should be at the BOTTOM of the pile when it comes to recruitment.
As long as such loosers exist, the airlines will continue to take the piss out of wannabe pilots and the recruitment game will continue to be the absolute shambles that it is.
Imangine the headlines, "Macdonalds workers, so desperate they are even willing to pay for their own "big mac rating"". Absurd of course, so why should aviation be any different? Its only a fooking job! A job is by defnition meant to make you money, not cause you to spend it.
It is idiots like these that ruin the whole pilot recruitment game for the rest of us. So you think that with 200 hrs youre entitled to jump from a 4 seater twin to a 200 seat 737? Like a fresh uni graduate should be running a company in their first job?
Wannabe pilots, if theyre really serious and actually enjoy flying, should have no bones about working their way up through the industry, ie instructor, to perhaps air taxi, to perhaps turbo prop, to jet.
I know of, and am sure that there are many more pilots out there who have reached the "big time" through hard work and perserverence, with minimum cash expenditure, and have really earnt the right to be where they are.
Then you get idiots who, with their big pot of cash try to leapfrog the whole process. These are perhaps the same kind of fools that are prepared to pay the likes of OAT an additional 30grand for their intial training, principally for the perceived promise of better job prospects.
In my mind, anyone who feels the need to try to increase their job prospects through the speculative spending of obscene amounts of money, lacks character, deserves no respect and should be at the BOTTOM of the pile when it comes to recruitment.
As long as such loosers exist, the airlines will continue to take the piss out of wannabe pilots and the recruitment game will continue to be the absolute shambles that it is.
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Get a job as a flight instructor, or apply to TP companies to build a few hours first. That way you can enjoy flying before you start your jet career. You may as well kiss good bye to the money you spent on the TR, having that and no hours makes no difference.
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Well, I'm 1 year sending CV's to all the aviation companies (jet airlines, TP airlines, banner towing, etc.)of Europe, Africa and Asia, calling by phone every day...
No way to find something.
After the TR I've got 3 chances, and from 2 I'm waiting a reply soon.
I live in a county (Sardinia island) where there is nothing to fly, no flying clubs etc. At the moment I've no possibilities to take a bag and drive through the continent to find a job.
Sorry, but it's not so easy here to find something. The TP airlines require the same amount of hour of a big airline.
Maybe it's a stupind thing for you, but it's also important where you live. Here there is no aviation culture....
Guys, count to 10 seconds before open your mounths.
Davide
No way to find something.
After the TR I've got 3 chances, and from 2 I'm waiting a reply soon.
I live in a county (Sardinia island) where there is nothing to fly, no flying clubs etc. At the moment I've no possibilities to take a bag and drive through the continent to find a job.
Sorry, but it's not so easy here to find something. The TP airlines require the same amount of hour of a big airline.
Maybe it's a stupind thing for you, but it's also important where you live. Here there is no aviation culture....
Guys, count to 10 seconds before open your mounths.
Davide
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Dmax - 23 June 2006
"One of things I won't do in my life will be to pay hours on a jet liner......"
Dmax - 24 June 2006
"Have I said that I would like to pay for line training? I think I said the opposite.......do you read good or do you need glasses?"
Dmax - 8 November 2006
"as soon as possible I need to start a line training or time building somewhere to get a job on the 737, the airline that offered that to me said they hasn't the possibility to give me the initial training so I need to do it (at least 100 hours) in another airline. Except Astraeus and Pegasus, can you suggest me some airlines that could help me?"
Ricky
"One of things I won't do in my life will be to pay hours on a jet liner......"
Dmax - 24 June 2006
"Have I said that I would like to pay for line training? I think I said the opposite.......do you read good or do you need glasses?"
Dmax - 8 November 2006
"as soon as possible I need to start a line training or time building somewhere to get a job on the 737, the airline that offered that to me said they hasn't the possibility to give me the initial training so I need to do it (at least 100 hours) in another airline. Except Astraeus and Pegasus, can you suggest me some airlines that could help me?"
Ricky
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baboon boy
baboon boy.....you took the words out of my mouth.
I think this should be a seperate post to try and wake some people up.
I hope this starts as much debate as it should.
I think this should be a seperate post to try and wake some people up.
I hope this starts as much debate as it should.
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Baboon, you said the truth. 
I quit flying for almost 1 year because i simply refused to pay for a rating. If those "wannabee pilots" really love flying, why do they contempt airtaxi etc?? If i had the chance to do this, i would have not hesitated. It is really a good way to train yourself, to build experience.
good luck
I quit flying for almost 1 year because i simply refused to pay for a rating. If those "wannabee pilots" really love flying, why do they contempt airtaxi etc?? If i had the chance to do this, i would have not hesitated. It is really a good way to train yourself, to build experience.
good luck
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If those "wannabee pilots" really love flying, why do they contempt airtaxi etc??
Many times I've received the same feedback like an airline does. Only knowing someone from inside I managed to find something.
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