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Old 27th May 2001 | 18:15
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MikeSamuel
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When you get your CPL with 150 hours or whatever it is...What type of jobs are these pilots employed in? Is there much demand for low hour CPL pilots? What type of planes air they allowed to fly?

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Old 27th May 2001 | 19:58
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You can fly anything, subject to any type rating requirements. That's the tricky bit. With 150hrs on a CPL you, along with everybody else in the same boat have only scratched the surface as far as the airlines are concerned.

Most people who do not get direct entry into an airline(some do, keep trying) bite the bullet and go and instruct because the airlines want hours.......and lots of them. You can instruct, para drop, do aeriel photography, anything, for anybody to get hours. Then they start to look at you as you start to stand out with 1000hrs.

Good luck.

PP
 
Old 27th May 2001 | 19:59
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Communication from Planet Skytoddler, Stardate 2015

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Well Mike - there are actually NO flying jobs going for commercial pilots any more. This is due to the logical and commonsense decision by the airlines, to follow the lead set en masse by flying schools in 2005, and abandon any form of remuneration for commercial pilots whatsoever.

Due to the vast numbers of highly qualified, well meaning PPLs volunteering to be airline pilots for free, in many cases better pilots than Chuck Yeager himself despite only having recently gone solo, the realisation dawned on airline managements around 2010 that there was no longer any need to waste money on training or paying so called 'commercial' pilots any more.

Passenger riots at Heathrow were only narrowly avoided in 2012 when the newly appointed BA Chief Pilot, HRH Crash Barrier, was captured on a Channel 4 hidden TV camera bouncing up and down on the left hand seat of a 777 while picking fleas off his F/O's back and eating them. Order was only restored when airline management promised to cut the cost of package holidays by a further 10%, by disposing of their simulation and training department and allowing all pilot recurrency to be done at home on MS Flight Sim, in a pilot's spare time.

BALPA finally admitted defeat in 2013 and announced it was merging with the McDonald's Workers Association, negotiating a cadet entry scheme into restaurant toilet cleaning for members with more than 10,000 hours heavy jet command.

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Old 27th May 2001 | 20:10
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Chill out !

Stop watching SciFi and try the Discovery Channel instead.

YanYan.
 
Old 27th May 2001 | 20:25
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Does this mean I could fly a Learjet after 150 hours ???? - Where do I sign...


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Old 27th May 2001 | 20:29
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Yes you could, or concorde. Just got to get the rating and find someone who will pay for it (assuming you can't afford it yourself) and then give you a job flying it (assuming you don't want to buy one yourself and fly it purely for pleasure)!!!!!!

PP
 
Old 29th May 2001 | 10:10
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Luke,

I saw the funny side of it

JWF
 
Old 29th May 2001 | 11:18
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batty
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I thought it was funny too!
 
Old 29th May 2001 | 12:32
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Crash Barrier
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6th June 2001
"Chaos raged at Edinburgh Airport today as one Luke Skytoddler managed to fool the authorities into thinking he was a legitimate
Airline Captain. The former Dundee based Instructor? was said to have suffered a complete breakdown following his dismissal
there having been found with the schools takings in his locker. After giving the authorities the same old sob story of how it is sooo difficult to survive on his wage, it was decided that he should be extradited asap. Skytoddler managed to get airside at Edinburgh and was found blubbering in the right hand seat of a 737, having given up
trying to start engines as :
a. The tanks were empty.
b. The Commercial exams did not teach a novice the simple things like engine start.

It was then decided that the "toddler" should
be kept in a padded cell indefinately....

 
Old 29th May 2001 | 13:11
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ickle black box
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MikeSamuel - Technically yes, if you do the type rating. Problem is, it's like a 17yr old who's just pased the driving test wanting to drive a Ferrari. You need someone who's willing to lend it to you, and someone else to insure you on it!

 
Old 29th May 2001 | 20:30
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juswonnafly
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ooooh...Handbags at Dawn chaps!

 
Old 29th May 2001 | 20:41
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Capt Wannabee
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Light the touch paper and retire to a safe distance!!!!!!!!

Where on earth did that outburst come from? Bit un-called for wasn't it?
 
Old 29th May 2001 | 20:57
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Arnaud
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as a jaa pilot you can fly anythng as long as its made out of paper. sayinng this you need a lengthy type rating to be allowed to do so after your ATP. (300 hours groud scholl and flighttests (ticking box variety)= 10000 eu dollars) plus MCC qualification- just to get the wrist action wright!!
 
Old 29th May 2001 | 21:06
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Woof! Woof! Woof!

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