Originally Posted by Flying Ninja
Since most regionals are looking for that magical minimum of 100 ME time anyway, why kill yourself trying to impress them with 300 hours when you don't have to? If you want to separate yourself from the competition, go get yourself 150-200 hours. I think 300 is overkill. Plus, you can use the saved money to fly the single engine on cross country ventures that will give you more opportunities to kill yourself (read: Solo XC PIC time) and that will look better on the books anyway.
Bottom line, airplane ownership is very expensive. Most people don't look at the incidentals that translate to big dollars. If you still have this itch to waste all that money, then buy the plane and fly the balls out of it everyday. For every day that plane sits on the ramp not flying, the more costly it becomes to you.
Where are you located?
Good points. I am in ND (UND), but live in Newport (CA). My dad just got (partnership @ SNA) on a B33, so i would be able to fly that for a single engine time. I will probably come out with anywhere with 20-45hrs of multi when i graduate, depends how well i do. I dont really want to stay at UND and get my MEI, i want to come back to SoCal as soon as i can. There are some nice planes at SNA, maybe i can hang around and hope someone with a twin likes me
, i am oging to try to get a job at the airport this summer after i come back from summer school. All i really need is like 100 or more TT on multi like you guys said. I just dont want to teach for a long time, since i will be graduating when i am 23, almost 24, so i will be older then most grads.
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