Originally Posted by
pilot77
People say you're buying your job, but didnt everybody buy there job by spending 30k to 70k on ppl and ratings?
No. Relative to the majority of all working airlines, I'd venture to say that very very few working pilots paid that much for flight training if they paid at all.
Despite what the pilot mills tell you, there is no quick fix for a piloting career. Sure, in 90 days you can jump through the hoops and learn the right answers to an oral question or fly a predictable profile for a check ride - but don't confuse this as being the same as aeronautical experience. As you finish the course from a pilot mill do you really, deep down inside really, think you have the experience to work in a 121 environment with 300 hours?
There are no shortcuts to experience. Comparing a 1000 hour King Air pilot and a 1000 CFI, I'll take the CFI any day. The CFI has the aeronautical knowledge AND the experience working with a variety of people. BTW, there is no such thing as a King Air SIC, it's certified single pilot, so your really describing a guy riding along as ballast to pad his/her log book.