No not lucky, determined.
And a little bit lucky too.

One day a Lear Jet parked on the ramp.
I went up to talk to the crew with a resume (CV) in hand.
I asked if they may be looking for a co-pilot, and they were.
I asked who I needed to talk to about a job, and he said "me".
I asked for the job and got it, while all the other instructors looked on.
Anybody else could have done what I did.
But they never tried.

A few months later, I flew the Lear Jet back to that airport.
Nothing had changed.

I see that you spent a long time flight instructing, and now fly B-737 charters.
You were complaining that too much instructing time was preventing your application at Jet Blue from being noticed.
Exactly my point.
500 hours is the maximum time you should instruct.

Now I was a 'lucky :mad: in the mid 1980s, when I spent just four months as second officer (flight engineer), and two an a half years as first officer (co-pilot) at a major airline.

We're getting a little off topic here but every type of entry level job in aviation has its inherent limitations:

• Flight instruction
• Banner towing
• Para dropping
• Traffic watch
• Fire watch
• Sight seeing flights

Some of the above should really only be done for one season 400-500hrs max as they offer nothing but Total Time.
I'll still list flight instruction on top because if you do it right it does wonders for your people skills and out for all of the above does allow you to fill some more columns in your logbook such as Night, XC, IFR, IMC, ME and generally a boatload of Instrument approaches.

The most fun I ever had was working with local law enforcement looking to see what people were growing in their fields.
We found many crops of corn with a patch of something else in the middle.
Exhausting work from before sun up to after sunset.
But the sort of days you'll remember for ever.

After about three months, I was ready to move on from instructing.
Yes, it helps your people skills.
But what you need the most is enthusiasm, and after a while it waned.

With so many Pt135 jobs now available.
I can't see why anybody would do jobs like you listed.
Single engine piston, either solo or instructing is detrimental after you have 500 hours.
Time to get some pic multi or single turbine, or sic multi turbine time.

If you get enough Pt135 time, you should be able to bypass the regional airlines and go direct to the supplemental carriers.
The university programs always try to sell you the idea of instructing to 1000 hours with your restricted ATP.
I think you'd be far better of served by getting the full 1500 hours in the right seat of a turbo prop or light jet.

Lets stay on topic for Matt's sake.
:ok:

I think Matt has lost interest.
As he said, he's either going to Leeds or Naples.
I guess after the lambasting that Naples got.
Looks like he's going to Leeds.

If I'm not mistaken, it's still only 100 hours for a CPL in Canada.

When I converted my Canadian PPL to FAA, there wasn't an exam, just an exchange of paperwork, but check that that hasn't changed - it was a long time ago.

It might have been cold, but it would also have been clear - fog to the locals there is 6 km! With one of those big Canadian Goose jackets you will be toasty warm down to -25 - been there, done that.

It's 100 for helicopters and 200 for aeroplanes.

The Greenlanders only start putting clothes on when it reaches minus 25...

Matt,

Are you aware that Canada and UK run a Youth Mobility Scheme (IEC) which provides open work permits to British citizens aged between 18 and 30 for Canada?

Thanks for the correction - I knew someone would have the answer!

Is broccoli still the only vegetable in Frobisher Bay (sorry, Iqaluit)? :)

This is the worst flying school in the entire world.

My friend and I came all the way from Denmark to take the pilot training here. When we showed up, we where met by two angry secretaries and a very weird smell. It seemed like they had no idea that we where coming and we got absolutely no help to figure any thing out.

The aircrafts looked very old and definitely not like anything you would ever feel safe in. The classrooms where dirty and we later found out that the weird smell came because they where feeding a lot of cats inside the building. There where cat hair and dust all over the place.

Later we got invited over to some of the other students house where they told us not to go to this school. Many of them had lost a great amount of money and all of them have had very bad experiences with the school. We decided to start with the private pilot license and see if we wanted to continue after that with the rest of the course/education/program. The next day we went to the owner of the school, Richard, to tell him the plan and that we would start with the PPL only.

He got very mad, sent us out of the school and terminated us (took our visas so we had to go home to DK) plus he kept the 1000 dollars that we each had payed in deposit to start on the school.

Here we where standing, two young guys with their dream of becoming a commercial pilot broken, no place to go and we had used a lot of money to travel to the states and put a lot of time into everything.

Now I am a military pilot and it has been 4-5 years since my experience with them, but I would think twice before going to this school, I mean it was Naples Air Center who also trained the 09/11 guys.

Correct me if I am wrong.I think this Flight school got its license revoked.I saw it on the EASA website.