Jobs for rated pilots with 0h on type?

[BongleBear]

just wondering what people do when they've paid for a type rating without a job offer at the end. do you then have to apply to every airline that operates that type? where is the best place to look for a job if you are type rated? cheers, bbear

[Fuel Crossfeed]

Its a brave man/woman who pays for a type rating without the gaurantee of a job at the end of it!!
Who was the TRTO you did your rating through do they not have any influence with any airlines who operate your type? Maybe send your cv to some of the agencies like Parc.
Keep sending out the cv's to everybody would be my advise and keep building hours some how.

[badgerpuppy]

hope you bought a non airline type rating so it will actually make a financial difference to the potential operators, who won't get all political and emotional about self sposored typed guys and it will only have cost you 7 or 8 grand not 30?

[BongleBear]

well ive been offered a job with an airline but have to pay for my own tr, but knowing that people are waiting upto a year to get the contract once type rated- i wouldnt mind keeping my options open. cheers bbear

[Superpilot]

BongleBear,

You're in arguably one of the better positions. If you went the Modular route then you are better of than most!

Congratulations by the way.

[BongleBear]

thanks mate, i'm just thinking that once i've got through type rating, if i'm made to wait then i may aswell use the advantage that i'm not bonded and seek work elsewhere. any ideas who to try with a 737-800 type rating?? cheers again, bbear

[Fair_Weather_Flyer]

If you might have to wait a year to start work, be careful. The company might not base check you until they are ready to employ you. This way, in effect you are not rated and thus not employable by other operators. This is how a certain Irish airline are playing it!

[BongleBear]

how am i not employable by any other airline? i wont be bonded and if i dont sign a contract until they are ready to employ me then im not tied down.

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You can only put the rating on your licence once you have done the base check: six take off and landings in the actual aircraft. This is how it works in JAA land.

So if you did the course, passed the exam in the sim, but have not done the base check, you don't have the rating.

[Superpilot]

Yes, he's right, take note BB.

However, does anyone know if it's possible to do the base training elsewhere?

Say you had a major falling out with your TR provider, or they went bust, and you found another TR company who could provide you with just the base training. Would that be acceptable to JAA? Apologies if I'm displaying my ignorance re: how it all works.

[Fellow Aviator]

I've always thought that you have to complete your type course in six months from commencing training, JAR FCL 1.240(3). Suppose then that the touch n' go's and base check are not part of the course? I'm just wondering how can the time between sim and base check be over an year...

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You do. Beyond six months, you'll have to have another session in the sim with the examiner.

[Fair_Weather_Flyer]

Sure, you can do the base check somewhere else; going rate is about £5000. Not sure if Ryanair would be impressed. Reading the thread on new joiners some months ago put me right off even applying for this mob. I can't believe that anyone would accept an RYR, offer of employment without reading it!

[Jetavia]

You can do a basecheck with Sterling in Copenhagen for 5000 euro. You just need to call them and ask to speak with the Sterling Blue flight training department. Really nice people there too.

[TheFlyguy]

B737 jobs for rated pilots w 0h on type?

We are a bunch of low houred pilots, (250-1000h TT) with a B737 type rating (but no hours on type), looking to get hired. Some of us has passed the AirBaltic interview (they are hiring now!) and are now in standby regime with them, but most of us are still looking. Any suggestions?

[G-Dawg]

I can honestly say that without time on type your pissing into the wind, sorry to be so blunt!!! If you've got a sniff of a job on the guppy take it, get some experience and the world will open up for you. I speak from painfull experience.

[Addy]

I believe there are quite a couple of TRTOs who are more than helpful after doing a tr with them, and who actually do get people jobs with 0 hours..
by the way g-dawg, whom did you do your tr with?

[G-Dawg]

Addy you are of course correct there is one particular company that do have a good track record of placing newly qualified guys or gals, as long as you did there training. My response was aimed at someone who already has a type rating and as most would agree it is extremely difficult to get anything with just a type rating. There are the lucky few of course but I'm talking in generalities.

Hope this is of help.

[David_Lid Air]

So how much time do you need to have on type to get a job on the 737?

[dartagnan]

Originally Posted by David_Lid Air

So how much time do you need to have on type to get a job on the 737?

the main question is not how many hours you need to get a job, but will you get a job?.
and anyway, you need a job to get the hours...and you need hours to get a job (the usual catch 22)