Actually, in his crusty fashion, Burke has it right. By your own admission, tried to "get ahead" by doing things all out of step. FIRST, you need real flight experience and PIC time, THEN, become an instructor/check airman (what's a FO check, sounds like SAC). It looks like you trusted those who told you how to get ahead without the real hard slog. I don't understand how you got as far as you did. BTW, you don't have 4 Types, if you don't have an ATP.

Now, if you want to fly, get the PIC time, whatever it takes, get an ATP, get hired at a regional and move on, paying whatever you can. Flying has no place for the inept, the uncommitted, or the casual. There is ONLY one way to where you hoped to be--no shortcuts. Luckily, the shortcuts didn't end up in a funeral home as so many of my late friends did.

Also, pilots are quite helpful, just don't look like a whiner or someone who is trying to shortcut things. Innumerable pilots have helped me thru the last 35 years, one went out on limb to hire me at 52.



GF