A320 vacancies for low timers?
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A320 vacancies for low timers?
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I am A320 current type rated with 0 hours on type looking for a job. CAA Licence.
I would appreciate any help and advices even i know its really hard.
Thanks in advance
I am A320 current type rated with 0 hours on type looking for a job. CAA Licence.
I would appreciate any help and advices even i know its really hard.
Thanks in advance
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I am a person with a Frozen ATPL Licence everything current, willing to pay for my own type/class rating to get a job too.
I have holded off get a rating so far, due to if I pay for a rating I will missing out on forming to the companies SOP etc.
Should I continue waiting or go ahead and pay for an Airbus/boeing rating and hope for the best?
I have holded off get a rating so far, due to if I pay for a rating I will missing out on forming to the companies SOP etc.
Should I continue waiting or go ahead and pay for an Airbus/boeing rating and hope for the best?
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possibly the best course of action is to gain some experience on type; this will usually lead to employment.
Eagle Jet and others can provide well recognised Line Training Schemes.
Eagle Jet and others can provide well recognised Line Training Schemes.
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Seriously ?!? A320 rating, 0 hours on type and you want help ?? come now, get your bottom sat back in the chair and quieten down, Flight Simulator FSX awaits you - after all, without a job offer you've just played the most expensive video game ever - hope it was worth it.
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again,I have to repeat myself.Pilots are so naive, unbelievable.
there is no job for pilot ALL AROUND THE WORLD, all you hear is someone who get a job. Someone who knows someone, the usual crap...
we are still in a damn recession, and this market is filled with thousand of unemployed A320 pilots, that's a fact. I have the numbers under my eyes.
After the rating, you are good to spend another 30'000$ or more for 300h, which is useless with less than 1500 or 2000h total time.
Rating is expired not after 1 year, but after 3 months. Yes, airline want ratings to be up to date no later than 3 months.
If you look for a job for more than 3 months, I tell you, chances are small to find a 320 job.
Then no one will be interested by you since you have already spent your money in a training. At this time, TRTO are interested by students spending their money in their sim.To give you a job? keep dreaming, why should they? when thousand of wanabes want pay.
to conclude: we are in recession and there are lot of desperate pilots, as long this recession stay, it would be better for all of us to wait. Wait for bonding contracts.
( I know it 's useless, whatever I say,monkeys will continue to throw money through windows)
there is no job for pilot ALL AROUND THE WORLD, all you hear is someone who get a job. Someone who knows someone, the usual crap...
we are still in a damn recession, and this market is filled with thousand of unemployed A320 pilots, that's a fact. I have the numbers under my eyes.
After the rating, you are good to spend another 30'000$ or more for 300h, which is useless with less than 1500 or 2000h total time.
Rating is expired not after 1 year, but after 3 months. Yes, airline want ratings to be up to date no later than 3 months.
If you look for a job for more than 3 months, I tell you, chances are small to find a 320 job.
Then no one will be interested by you since you have already spent your money in a training. At this time, TRTO are interested by students spending their money in their sim.To give you a job? keep dreaming, why should they? when thousand of wanabes want pay.
to conclude: we are in recession and there are lot of desperate pilots, as long this recession stay, it would be better for all of us to wait. Wait for bonding contracts.
( I know it 's useless, whatever I say,monkeys will continue to throw money through windows)
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I Guess you and I are on the 'early's' this morning then Superstorm!!!
Yes, you are quite correct but these guy's can build some time with a little bit of P2F so as to be better placed when the market lifts.
(Then they can park in carpark Z and get up at 0430!)
Yes, you are quite correct but these guy's can build some time with a little bit of P2F so as to be better placed when the market lifts.
(Then they can park in carpark Z and get up at 0430!)
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Yes there are vacancies, and with your experience level they will be with the pay to fly companies, so try Eagle Jet, Aeroflot, Tiger, and Bahrain Air I think are doing hours on type too. Also call a320 operators and some of them will tell you what they are charging for hours, others will tell you not today thanks.
To be paid to fly, well, your looking at captains only right now.
But good luck anyway.
To be paid to fly, well, your looking at captains only right now.
But good luck anyway.
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Type rating with 0 hours won't get you anywhere if you're a fresh pilot (less than 1500 hours total).
I got an A320 type rating in 09 because I was offered a job in the middle east, but the project eventually did not work out. My A320 type rating didn't get me anywhere else for the first year. I got an interview in Asia a year and a half after the TR but by that time it was too old (they wanted 6 month old max).
Now I am about to start training in a regional airline thanks to my hard work and patience, not thanks to a worthless type rating with 0 experience in the aircraft.
Eagle Jet, Bahrain Air, etc. they're all pay to fly scams. I understand your frustration, I come from 1 1/2 year of almost no flying (20 hours or so) after flying 100+ per month as an instructor. Try applying to companies all around the world, network, and be patient.
I got an A320 type rating in 09 because I was offered a job in the middle east, but the project eventually did not work out. My A320 type rating didn't get me anywhere else for the first year. I got an interview in Asia a year and a half after the TR but by that time it was too old (they wanted 6 month old max).
Now I am about to start training in a regional airline thanks to my hard work and patience, not thanks to a worthless type rating with 0 experience in the aircraft.
Eagle Jet, Bahrain Air, etc. they're all pay to fly scams. I understand your frustration, I come from 1 1/2 year of almost no flying (20 hours or so) after flying 100+ per month as an instructor. Try applying to companies all around the world, network, and be patient.
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Thanks for all your replys!!
The guys who reckon I should get a B777 and A380 type rating, you missed out concorde?
From my intell you can still get a concorde type rating.
The guys who reckon I should get a B777 and A380 type rating, you missed out concorde?
From my intell you can still get a concorde type rating.
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Flyhighspeed,
You won't 'miss out on forming to' company SOP's in a type rating. Airlines generally fly aircraft very similar to the Boeing/Airbus SOP's with minor differences. So adjusting to those company changes are easy.
There will be many more SOP's that you will actually have to learn once you get to an airline regarding the operation of that airline and what they want you to do on the line.
Can't say I'd have bought a type rating without a job to go to. That's insane, and if it works out very very lucky.
You won't 'miss out on forming to' company SOP's in a type rating. Airlines generally fly aircraft very similar to the Boeing/Airbus SOP's with minor differences. So adjusting to those company changes are easy.
There will be many more SOP's that you will actually have to learn once you get to an airline regarding the operation of that airline and what they want you to do on the line.
Can't say I'd have bought a type rating without a job to go to. That's insane, and if it works out very very lucky.
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Quote: Superstorm:
"we are still in a damn recession, and this market is filled with thousand of unemployed A320 pilots, that's a fact. I have the numbers under my eyes".
*What are you drinking superstorm?
*There aren't thousands of unemployed A320 pilots?
What country?
That's Rubbish!!!
Any person that's type rated and has time on a B737 or A320, is working
in their country or another country or has upgraded to another type.
*Recession?
Yes, but if a person isn't qualified, recession or not, the person can expect to miss out on opportunities that arrive.
Quote:"that's a fact. I have the numbers under my eyes".
*The fact is you don't have any time on an A320 or B737, so you
cannot be considered.
Quote:Narwhal:
"I am A320 current type rated with 0 hours on type looking for a job. CAA Licence.
I would appreciate any help and advices even i know its really hard.
*If you really think you got an A320 type rating, then you done well and
you completed all the hard work.
Stay current in the A320 simulator and save money then try an Indonesian carrier that's got an A320.
You will have to pay to fly because you're an apprentice still!
When you get better at the A320 and get some hours up, then you can
expect to get paid!
It's fair!!!
Even Superstorm would agree with that!
"we are still in a damn recession, and this market is filled with thousand of unemployed A320 pilots, that's a fact. I have the numbers under my eyes".
*What are you drinking superstorm?
*There aren't thousands of unemployed A320 pilots?
What country?
That's Rubbish!!!
Any person that's type rated and has time on a B737 or A320, is working
in their country or another country or has upgraded to another type.
*Recession?
Yes, but if a person isn't qualified, recession or not, the person can expect to miss out on opportunities that arrive.
Quote:"that's a fact. I have the numbers under my eyes".
*The fact is you don't have any time on an A320 or B737, so you
cannot be considered.
Quote:Narwhal:
"I am A320 current type rated with 0 hours on type looking for a job. CAA Licence.
I would appreciate any help and advices even i know its really hard.
*If you really think you got an A320 type rating, then you done well and
you completed all the hard work.
Stay current in the A320 simulator and save money then try an Indonesian carrier that's got an A320.
You will have to pay to fly because you're an apprentice still!
When you get better at the A320 and get some hours up, then you can
expect to get paid!
It's fair!!!
Even Superstorm would agree with that!
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What I would like to know is all these people who are saying that you throw your money away in Eagle Jet and so forth, what are the grounds of this?
I am not looking in to spending money i don't have on an hour building program but i would like to see the statistics of X amount of people did the 300 hour program and X amount of people got the job they have been dreaming about within 3 - 4 months after the program.
I am not looking in to spending money i don't have on an hour building program but i would like to see the statistics of X amount of people did the 300 hour program and X amount of people got the job they have been dreaming about within 3 - 4 months after the program.