I say do what your heart tells you. You wanna be an airline pilot at 250+ do it.

I had to work my way up as a traffic watch pilot, and a lot of pps on this board had to work their way up as flight instructors, pipe line patrol pilots, corp pilots - however, things have changed and this industry has taken a turn in how it thinks it's going to meet the need capacity of pilots to fly the airframes they have with the schedules they want and the contract (and their translation of the contract) they have signed. With that in mind, people like yourself and different people with different types of experience can get on alot faster. What I did, doesn't mean that YOU have to do it too because I told you that my way is better or correct - you do what suites you with the given opportunities presented to you along the way.

A person I knew once, told me, you have to be the right person at the right place at the right time - but when all these three happen you have to prove and do a hack of a job to prove that you are two of those while the third is the option presenting it self to you.

With all that in mind, and with whatever path you choose know that just like any choice in life it bares responsibility and I ain't just talking about the ones sitting in the back of an ERJ, but also personal resposibilities as for working hard, studying hard making sure you WANT (not necessarily succeed) to pass the rides etc etc. I am NOT saying you will not pass your rides or that with your experience I would sitr away, not at all! I would just make sure I know full heartedly what I'm getting my self into and what responsibilities it bares with it .

To sum it all up. If I were you and I was presented with an offer to join an airline with less experience hack yes! Would I take it lightly? hell NO. It is a responsibility and with such there are consequences that you might have to bare, both good and bad ones.

Think of that, and do your own personal math. Not what a bunch of people are telling you because of their path/choices/given opportunities in life.


On a side I do however want to share with you a little something I've concluded along the way.
A long time ago, I had a friend who was an airline pilot in Europe, flew a bunch of Airbuses for diff carriers. I told him I've had it with GA and I want to move on. He laughed and told me to patient and that I should try to enjoy where i'm at and make the most of this experience building time as the airlines once you get into them are boring. You can into a jet that flies 450mph+/- and you enjoy very little of it and the associated "flying" that comes along with it - whether you use the automation or not. I started laughing and told him he forgot what GA is and how sucky it feels. Looked up to him and envied his airplane, the speed, the computers and the cockpit which just for the mare fact it had an A/C in it was far better than my stupid cessna. Today, looking back and not trying to sound cheesy, I know exactly what he meant. Airline flying is an awesome job but it is also very B-O-R-I-N-G and very very repetitive. Flying loses alot of the "magic" it had back in GA days. Take that for whatever it is worth.
-schone