Calling all Recruitment Bods
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Calling all Recruitment Bods
Instructors are hitting the 2000 hrs mark!
Many have quoted this 'apprenticeship' period that can be advantageous for developing one's skills. Its not multiengine / multicrew but it does improve on the flying. A long time ago, instructors would last a year & be off, now the same faces are patiently waiting with an eager 200hr guy ready to move in.
These days, getting an instructor position is as hard as getting an airline position, unless you fast track with the purchase of a B737 type rating.
How about giving us all a chance, employ some instructors (who usually cant afford a type rating), free up some movement at the bottom end of the scale in the instructor world and get some low hour guys into a flying job. Maybe this way a hard working product is developed rather than bought.
Many have quoted this 'apprenticeship' period that can be advantageous for developing one's skills. Its not multiengine / multicrew but it does improve on the flying. A long time ago, instructors would last a year & be off, now the same faces are patiently waiting with an eager 200hr guy ready to move in.
These days, getting an instructor position is as hard as getting an airline position, unless you fast track with the purchase of a B737 type rating.
How about giving us all a chance, employ some instructors (who usually cant afford a type rating), free up some movement at the bottom end of the scale in the instructor world and get some low hour guys into a flying job. Maybe this way a hard working product is developed rather than bought.
AK,
Nice try, but my bet is on the recruiters responding on a supply and demand basis. It's tough on instructors, but the fact remains that from their point of view, someone with the 737 rating will cost them LESS than someone without one. Arguably less risky too.
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Nice try, but my bet is on the recruiters responding on a supply and demand basis. It's tough on instructors, but the fact remains that from their point of view, someone with the 737 rating will cost them LESS than someone without one. Arguably less risky too.
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What are you trying to say?Instructors are what?The best?
Let's not start a topic on who is better.
What about Air-Taxi/pax and freight guys/gals?
What about........ the list goes on-and on!
At least you have a job.
Chill-out and wait for your turn like the rest of us!
Let's not start a topic on who is better.
What about Air-Taxi/pax and freight guys/gals?
What about........ the list goes on-and on!
At least you have a job.
Chill-out and wait for your turn like the rest of us!
2000hrs SEP instructing must be getting a little tiresome. Can only suggest trying to move up the food chain a little by perhaps moving to a large FTO. Elsewise with 2000hrs in the logbook you might be useful to the Air Taxi market.
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Sir donald
I'm not saying instructors are the best at all, far from it.
I was saying guys are fast tracking all of us by simply buying a type rating. We have all worked hard in our own areas of aviation, taxi-frieght-instructor etc and but the airlines seem to be taking people prepared to buy the rating over and above all else.
Come May i'll have been instructing for 4 years, enuf chilling out me thinks! but thanks for your views
I'm not saying instructors are the best at all, far from it.
I was saying guys are fast tracking all of us by simply buying a type rating. We have all worked hard in our own areas of aviation, taxi-frieght-instructor etc and but the airlines seem to be taking people prepared to buy the rating over and above all else.
Come May i'll have been instructing for 4 years, enuf chilling out me thinks! but thanks for your views
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Too many SEP Hours?
I was wondering what your thoughts might be as regards to the max number of hours someone should have. I know 2 instructors in the states who had 2500 dual given on single engine and they decided to go back to non flying jobs until the market picked up reasoning that doing any more single engine time would be detrimental to there Careers and less obviously things like there hearing?
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There seems to be an opinion in the UK that 2000 hours SEP instructing is the point where more SEP hours might become detrimental for those seeking airline jobs - the idea that airline Chief Pilots and HR might think 'if no-one has hired him/her by now there must be something wrong with them'.
It's tough on the significant number of UK Instructors who are now hitting that level with no job prospects further up the food chain.
cheers!
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It's tough on the significant number of UK Instructors who are now hitting that level with no job prospects further up the food chain.
cheers!
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Got 1500 hrs instructing and tryng the TRSS at EasyJet. Even with these hours and willing to take the reduced pay and self fund TR etc I can't even get an interview.
I checked out a guy on a PA-28 at the end of last year, he had 75 hrs and was, lets say, not in any way gifted as an aviator. ( I didn't sign him off on the Cherokee)
Saw him last week, he starts with EasyJet next Month.
Signed....................... Speechless!!
I checked out a guy on a PA-28 at the end of last year, he had 75 hrs and was, lets say, not in any way gifted as an aviator. ( I didn't sign him off on the Cherokee)
Saw him last week, he starts with EasyJet next Month.
Signed....................... Speechless!!
