Originally Posted by
rcfd13
Things trickle down. When the majors hire the regionals lose pilots and hire. When the regionals hire CFI jobs and time building jobs lose pilots fast to the regionals. When I said that the regionals are hiring like crazy so he should have no problem finding a job I meant that CFI jobs and time building jobs are probably desperate for pilots or will be desperate for pilots soon.
Actually, not so much. Where I currently instruct, for the first time in like 2-3 years they have people calling and applying all of the time that have at least some prior experience, and when they hired a couple instructors a few months ago, they actually turned down some people with a decent amount of experience because they had so many applicants to choose from.
I'm looking to move on from instructing, but there isn't much of anything for pilots under 1500 hours (unless I had parents willing to fund me while I live on a $14k/year paycheck).
Once people hit the ATP mins threshold I'm sure that opens up a lot more opportunities, but there are a lot of pilots stuck in limbo waiting for ATP mins, and not really enough time-building jobs to go around.