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Old 11-16-2016 | 09:42 PM
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Oooo, I get the feeling you're not flying in the Gulfstream/Falcon, VIP world, where opportunities for a young 1,000 hour pilot are almost unheard of... These guys are at a western compound with a pool, bar, tennis courts, and a gym. It sounds like a country club, but my experiences have only been limited to Iraq, Afghanistan, UAE, Bahrain, Qatar, and Jordan... As well as Saudi, and this job is a great one at any level. I don't seem to have your worldly, Middle Eastern experience in big iron VIP flying, so I may be wrong. I'd rather have that kind of adventure than work at some dead end charter company stateside, on $50/day per diem, with no hope of ever flying more than mid level execs to play golf in a Hawker. Evidently they're all over Europe staying at Marriotts most of the time. You say run, but if you're sitting at 1,000 hours, and can't even apply for a regional FO position that only pays $34k to commute, and work 17 days a month in the grind, this job is amazing. A guy will have come out of this with $100k in the bank, 1,000 hours of Falcon time, and have seen some of the world. All of your jobs after that will be six figures. Yeah.. Run from that

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