Originally Posted by
UCLAbruins
Had a conversation with a guy last week while airlining to work. He's a CRJ captain at a commuter airline.
He said he'd leave his job for FSI (to be an instructor) if they'd "buy me valuable rating like a G-V, Global Express, Falcon 7X".
I said his "valuable rating" is going to come at a high price, he won't be flying anymore, he said he's not worried, "I got my 1000 hrs PIC and a this useless type rating, its time to move on". He hasn't applied at FSI, but he's thinking about it
what's you guys take on this??
my opinion, bad move
A G-V type rating is a $100,000 event at Flight Safety. Contract pilots are $1000 or more/day. If he has something lined up in advance that might not be the worst idea in the world. Otherwise I dunno.