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Sadly to make your suggestion viable in terms of funds Dave, you would really have to be juggling another job ontop of that as well as I doubt you would find many FTO's that pay their FI's enough to cover living costs as well as enough to set back a sum for a TR.
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Been an FI in addition to another job would mean a lot more tax,which would mean you wouldn't be earning that much more or even possibly less. It brings about the reasoning of most FI's that they may have to work for nothing for an FTO to avoid the taxman doing one over on them.
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Sorry guys for an OT but do You have any thoughts about going for a year or less to some exotic countries such as Costa Rica or Panama to work out this hours on some dhc or caravans instead of doing FI... having of course CPL/ME/IR JAA but without TR.
Do they accept JAA or want some coversions, do they pay for this "small TR", and above all do they want low hour guys ?
And I know that the easiest way is to give them cv but I don't have yet all of this mentioned CPLs but beeing close so if anyone knows... it would be nice or if someone knows who might be hiring there?
Do they accept JAA or want some coversions, do they pay for this "small TR", and above all do they want low hour guys ?
And I know that the easiest way is to give them cv but I don't have yet all of this mentioned CPLs but beeing close so if anyone knows... it would be nice or if someone knows who might be hiring there?
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donPablo,
I would expect Latin American countries would require FAA ratings; though I am not totally sure what licences are accepted in that part of the world.
However on a similar vain most African countries accept JAA licences with a fairly straight forward conversions to the local national licence (normally an air law exam and check flight). And as an alternative to instructing in the UK it is possible for low hour pilots to get employed as bush pilots in places like Zambia and Botwana. Most low hour pilots start on the Cessna 206 but after a season or two can move on to a Caravan or a King Air. However to get jobs in that part of world you have to travel there and present yourself in person to the operators.
I would expect Latin American countries would require FAA ratings; though I am not totally sure what licences are accepted in that part of the world.
However on a similar vain most African countries accept JAA licences with a fairly straight forward conversions to the local national licence (normally an air law exam and check flight). And as an alternative to instructing in the UK it is possible for low hour pilots to get employed as bush pilots in places like Zambia and Botwana. Most low hour pilots start on the Cessna 206 but after a season or two can move on to a Caravan or a King Air. However to get jobs in that part of world you have to travel there and present yourself in person to the operators.
