Originally Posted by
joepilot
Get your CFII, and do all the instrument instructing you possibly can. Especially if you can get into actual IFR conditions with the student. Try to schedule as much as possible at night. If you go to a different airport for approaches, do a touch and go, and then you will be logging night IFR cross country time, which will help you get hired. If the T&G airport is more than 50 miles from the departure airport, then the student also gets to log cross country time towards the requirements for the commercial and instrument tickets. You get to log cross country time towards the ATP minimums as long as there is a landing at a different airport from the departure airport.
With respect to the multi, if you get hired as a CFI, generally the school will give you a discount on multi time.
Joe
Not 100% accurate. In order for the cross country time to count towards ATP mins it has to be at least a straight line distance of more than 50nm from the departure airport and does not need to include a landing. It is cross country if you land at an airport other then where you departed but in order for it to be used towards ATP mins. it still needs to be straight line distance of more than 50nm from the point of departure.