Originally Posted by
Ottopilot
Maximize your flying also. That is, fill every column you can in a flight. Do a MEL, night, IFR (in actual or simulated), cross country as PIC to an IFR approach and landing. Look at your ATP flight time requirements and see what I mean. Anyone can do a local VFR flight during the day. Have fun.
We filed and did IAPs 95 percent of the time, even when controllers said expect visual, we would have the weather ready to request a particular approach