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stomrywx,
i have yet to do it, so i dunno where the best place is
i'm simply going on a few assumptions:
to get a job you should be the best person for the job, not the 4th or 5th best for 100 jobs
the way i see it, say your going into places weekly. an airfeild a day gives you 7 airfeilds to work on getting a job at, assuming between travel and talking you only fit in one feild per day
base someone with about 7 different places in day trip or overnight range and you can focus on those places...
i may be way off the mark of course, but this is just my plan as it stands...
I am of course open to comments, ideas, rants about how much of an idiot i am
suffice to say where i plan to base is a secret (don't want too many copycats) but its not cairns, darwin or alice, or a capital city, its where i perceive my best prospects at work to be, where the aircraft and operators i want to fly with are and so forth
i have yet to do it, so i dunno where the best place is
i'm simply going on a few assumptions:
to get a job you should be the best person for the job, not the 4th or 5th best for 100 jobs
the way i see it, say your going into places weekly. an airfeild a day gives you 7 airfeilds to work on getting a job at, assuming between travel and talking you only fit in one feild per day
base someone with about 7 different places in day trip or overnight range and you can focus on those places...
i may be way off the mark of course, but this is just my plan as it stands...
I am of course open to comments, ideas, rants about how much of an idiot i am
suffice to say where i plan to base is a secret (don't want too many copycats) but its not cairns, darwin or alice, or a capital city, its where i perceive my best prospects at work to be, where the aircraft and operators i want to fly with are and so forth
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good post and some good points to think of when going for that first gig, ie get get yourself establsihed somehwere,
(it all depends on what you consider day trip range), well i think in response to that comment that all depends on if you are doing it of your own back or someone elses??
Most places up North are not really a short drive away, specially from the major pilot job opporutunity towns
cheers, good luck
howzit goin down therre grrowler?
(it all depends on what you consider day trip range), well i think in response to that comment that all depends on if you are doing it of your own back or someone elses??
Most places up North are not really a short drive away, specially from the major pilot job opporutunity towns
cheers, good luck
howzit goin down therre grrowler?
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yeah the 'day trip' range thing was kinda a slip of my mind, what i mean is within a reasonable range.
i know the 'big drive' is the way to go is some ways, but i see the best option as being the best person for one job, rather then one of several many people going down teh same highways
plus having a base and a regular time there, means you can hold down a job. I've never gone on the dole, gotten austudy and so forth, and i don't indend to.
Besides, even with a base of some sort, you could go out every few weeks to the real remote places...
i dunno, its all theory till i try it
i know the 'big drive' is the way to go is some ways, but i see the best option as being the best person for one job, rather then one of several many people going down teh same highways
plus having a base and a regular time there, means you can hold down a job. I've never gone on the dole, gotten austudy and so forth, and i don't indend to.
Besides, even with a base of some sort, you could go out every few weeks to the real remote places...
i dunno, its all theory till i try it
