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Old 03-11-2012, 01:17 PM
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Get your ATP, that will get your currency back.

Most or all employers will have a recency requirement and you will not find a lot of flexibility on that. This is typically something like 100/6 months, 200/12 months.

The good news is that with your background I suspect that all you need to do is go CFI to get your recency hours. You can probably do that while keeping your day job. Employers probably won't require recent turbine experience as long as you have been flying something.

I'd probably give that a shot first. Regionals will also want currency, and you will have to spend several months on partial pay just to get trained. Then you could very well get assigned a base far from home on reserve, where it could take many months to get the flight time you want. Also regionals will flat-out not hire military guys who they think will turn around and leave quickly (ie no recency, fighter guy with 1378 hours, etc) so you will need a good excuse as to WHY you want to work there and be able to convince them.
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