Originally Posted by
Slice
If you want to fly for a living you need multi time. A great way to do this is getting your instrument in a twin. So, you'd get your PPL MEL next and then you can log multi PIC by getting your training in an Apache, Dutchess, Seminole, etc.
I do want to fly for a living. That's why I mentioned I wanted to train in a structure similar to ATP flight school. I believe if I do what Slice mentions above then I can get the required X-country 50 PIC hours needed for the instrument via my Multi rating.
I called ATP and they said they do a Private Multi rating (9 days) followed by a Private Instrument (26 days) and then followed by nationwide X-country. ATP couldn't answer where the pilot gets the 50 hours PIC X-country time for the instrument rating. Do those 50 hours PIC X-country time come mostly from the Private Multi rating? How many hours of PIC X-country time typically come from working on the instrument rating?