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If its about flying the big jets and skipping all the rest, you are really doing yourself harm. At 500 hours you don't know 
Go instruct for a year or so or try to get on a small charter (you may need 1000 hours for that) And while you are flying and upgrading you will be learning at the same time. The men and women that fly in those airliners are the elite, with thousands of hours and years if not decades of flying experience and knowledge.
You can't possibly be so ignorant to think an airline will rest their multi million dollar reputation in the hands of an inexperienced joy-rider. Take the advice that people have been giving you, because combined with everyone on this post who are telling you that you are going the wrong way about it, you got hundreds of years of experience. 500 hours in Canada would probably get you as far as a Cessna Caravan, nothing more. So if you want to get into an airliner you're gonna need like 8 times that.
Good luck with your career, and don't try shortcuts because they don't guarantee to work.
Go instruct for a year or so or try to get on a small charter (you may need 1000 hours for that) And while you are flying and upgrading you will be learning at the same time. The men and women that fly in those airliners are the elite, with thousands of hours and years if not decades of flying experience and knowledge. You can't possibly be so ignorant to think an airline will rest their multi million dollar reputation in the hands of an inexperienced joy-rider. Take the advice that people have been giving you, because combined with everyone on this post who are telling you that you are going the wrong way about it, you got hundreds of years of experience. 500 hours in Canada would probably get you as far as a Cessna Caravan, nothing more. So if you want to get into an airliner you're gonna need like 8 times that.
Good luck with your career, and don't try shortcuts because they don't guarantee to work.
MD11Flyer,
I fly with FOs with as little as 300Hrs TT before they come on line. They have to work hard to keep up, lack a lot of the common DF that comes with time, but, after a year or so, do the job just fine and usually upgrade when they have around 3000hrs just as successfuly as those who "Came through the ranks."
I fly with FOs with as little as 300Hrs TT before they come on line. They have to work hard to keep up, lack a lot of the common DF that comes with time, but, after a year or so, do the job just fine and usually upgrade when they have around 3000hrs just as successfuly as those who "Came through the ranks."
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Hello Topman999,
Not sure if I understand you or not, but the point I was trying to illustrate is that knowbody gets a type rating for nothing, unless hired by an airline that will type you as an employee. I think you might have misunderstood my post. Not sure though, pretty tired.
As Wizofoz said, 500 hours and a type rating CAN get you a job in Europe. That I know for sure. Of coarse, loads of luck and money are needed as well.
Good luck,
Not sure if I understand you or not, but the point I was trying to illustrate is that knowbody gets a type rating for nothing, unless hired by an airline that will type you as an employee. I think you might have misunderstood my post. Not sure though, pretty tired.
As Wizofoz said, 500 hours and a type rating CAN get you a job in Europe. That I know for sure. Of coarse, loads of luck and money are needed as well.
Good luck,
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But that job will most likely be in the right seat where you will NOT be logging PIC time, which is what companies look for not to mention you need to get your ATPL. Instructing is the best way to go as a first job, all the time is PIC and you can log anywhere between 500-800 hours of PIC time a year and get your ATPL in no time. I would never jump straight to a jet because it would take me forever to get my ATPL
