Kids, and marriage, make the ability to pursue the job market harder. So all decisions include factoring the impact on others vs. just yourself. Hopefully your wife is fabulously wealthy and the financial impact is meaningless.

You're below the industry average for civilian new hires. I posted some data earlier today on the average flight hour poll thread. It's roughly 7700 TT/4100 PIC for DL.

Airlines value 121 experience, large organization experience (enforced standardization?), diversity of experience (lack of movement can be a negative), etc.

Airlines have made various comments about some of their hiring -

96% of their civilian hires had 121 experience (is that greater or less than the percentage of 121 applicants? If it's greater it shows a desire to hire 121 guys)

85% were RJ pilots. 15% 'other'. Corporate, sup 121, ACMI 121, etc. Again what percentage of the applicants are RJ/121 vs 'other'?

1000 TPIC = "highly qualified".


How long would it take to get to 7700 TT/4100 PIC at your current job? What if you went the RJ/121 route? I tell guys to write their next five annual resumes if they stay or choose another job. Sometimes the answer becomes more obvious. But that takes a certain amount of estimating when you think you'd be in the sweet spot for hiring. Does five more years of G-V flying materially improve your resume? Does five years of RJ flying look better? But what if you can achieve 7700/4100 in two years? What if it takes 3 years? Four? Five? What's the financial impact?

I'd look at the 'who got hired' thread and write down the data from the guys who got hired, especially the corporate guys. Do you exceed, or lag, their resumes? What about the average guy? Bottom 25%?

The path isn't easy or always obvious. Good luck.