Originally Posted by
chrisreedrules
.... No one will even look at you for anything with less than 500TT (even a lot of CFI jobs... who also want at least a II and prefer a MEI) and most want 800 to 1000TT (for survey).
.... A lot of flight schools aren't promising anything more than 40 flight hours per month. And just about everywhere has over 250+ resumes sitting in the stack on the desk. I'm willing to move anywhere... literally anywhere for a job to build time faster than the 20 hours a month I'm getting now. But they just don't seem to exist at the moment. I'm a bit discouraged to say the least. I'm going to keep plugging along and doing what I'm doing (what choice do I really have at this point?) but I think a lot has changed since you guys have been in these shoes (less than 500TT).
So you are currently building 20 hrs per month at your current job.
If I remember correctly - some of those hours are Multi-turbine too in the KA200? That is some of the hardest time to build in program. It seems to me that except for building your TT at a quicker pace, you are doing much better than many who are building that 40 hours a month that you are laminating yet all in a C-152/172 and who are praying for the chance to build multi time, much less multi-turbine time.
Maybe things aren't quite as bad as you think they are!
I had one guy tell me I had a better chance of finding a job landscaping than in aviation right now and who's to say he's wrong? It gave me a chuckle when he said it, but after the conversation I thought about it for a minute... and the guy is right. Thats the sad state this industry is in today and its downright disheartening.
What part of landscaping? Is this the part where someone says that the world needs ditch diggers (or in this case flower bed diggers) too?
It very well may be easier to get into some form of landscaping. Piloting , for the most part, isn't manual labor. It is HARDER to get into and to make a successful bid of it as a profession.
USMCFLYR