Originally Posted by
skylover
Obviously they would have to flight instruct for some time, but yes, I'm guessing the majority did go through a regional, as that is the common path for an ERAU grad. I don't have a chart or anything though. Typically one goes from ERAU to flight instructing, either undergrad or a year or two after graduation, and then a regional.
What other experience are you talking about, other than flight instructing?
Any of the other common ways of building time that you see mentioned on nearly every thread on APC dealing with time building.
Personally - I think Aerial Surveying seems to be one of the best. I've seen them out and about during some of my work. That type of flying seems to deal with a variety of conditions like X/C, weather issues across a wide region (relative of course), working with ATC in Class B or C airspace (more than the regular coordination - work related tuff) at least until you can build some P135 mins and end up flying some feeder freight.
CFI'ing is good initial experience. As I posted earlier - an example of what people are calling "cutting corners" would be NOT flight instructing, or any other type of time/experience building job, and going right into a regional.
Right now you think this is OK. Your opinion will likely change over time - especially if you are actually afforded the opportunity to biuld experience out of the P121 world. If you do end up going to ERAU and right into gorund school for some regioanl then you'll probably never know what you don't know
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