Originally Posted by
Egg320
Short answer... Jet time.
In Europe if you have not been to the right flight school nor have a type rating with 500 hours on type, forget it.
The other is Pay to Fly (P2F) that European pilots love prostituting themselves out for and the carriers are milking it.
I know this because Im South African, Australian and EASA/JAA licenced with ATPL. It is disgusting how they treat pilots in Europe and allow these P2F schemes to go ahead.
So believe me when I tell you for 22K a European pilot will sell his soul and his mother to get that precious 500 hours on a jet type for 2 reasons.
1. To actually fly the type in Europe such as a ERJ 175
2. Join somebody like Emirates because they will not look at a 8000 hour king air pilot but will take a 1000 hour ERJ pilot due to weight category(over 25 tons), glass cockpit and jet time.
I also want to live there and commit my future to the US.
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You wannabe American dreamers are out of your minds!
Do you not see the hypocrisy in your arguments Egg320 and German guy what ever your name was?
You are willingly accepting the worst paying airline jobs in the world just to live in the US.
I love when foreigners come to Europe on EU passports they undeservedly got from their great grandparents or in the past work visas when there were loads of unemployed pilots in Europe or else they are working abroad like me, in both cases they are never reciprocal. (Can I get an SA or Aus passport due to my great grandparents or else a work visa?)
You complain about pay to fly but your actions are even more detrimental to our global industry as you have options whereas a Pay2fly guy doesn't have a choice because foreigners take all the low hour turboprop jobs, I still see Stobart air advertising for foreigners. Guys like you ruined my low cost job in Europe so I had to leave Ireland and go to China to make some decent cash.
I too would like to go to the US because taxes are high everywhere in Europe with a high cost of living and not to mention the place is falling apart socially, politically and economically (Refugees Brexit Euro etc). To the German guy, please say thank you to Merkel for me!
Another year or two in China and maybe I will move to the US and buy a pub or small business with the money I made in China but I wouldn't sell my soul to fly for peanuts for an extremely uncertain and long road to a greencard like you scholars. It's because of people like you I've no choice but to make bank and get out.
And they wonder why management laugh at us?
Oh btw if you haven't already got your FAA ATP you need to do a CTP (extra 5k) now and unless you have an FAA Commerical it will have a restriction. Good luck getting your regional to pay for all that before they sponsor you but what's another $13000 right?