Originally Posted by
illinipilot
If you can go to a regional with 300hrs or whatever, go for it. You may catch a lot of flack on here but you'll basically be skipping a step. Getting valuable time, making at least as much as you could flight instructing (maybe not much more), and if you don't like the company, it wouldn't take long to build the required time for a "better" regional. That being said, you'd really need to work hard to make it through training, and most importantly you do not want to be a burden to the captains on the road.
Good Luck.
BTW, flight instructing was fun, however you have a pretty cool opportunity that not many of us had five years ago.
Don't know if you're really skipping a step. Won't you be a little short on the PIC requirement for an ATP when the time comes? At the very least the 300 hour guy is gonna be short on PIC skills.
To be fair, it really is a gamble. The 300 hour might make it through training which is great (just don't f*#K it up when you get to the line. Those are real live people in the back paying your pay check). But I imagine failing out of a 121 program at that stage in your career is a serious black mark when it comes time to apply some place else.