Originally Posted by sgaertner
All
I'm in the same situation as you guys. I have my Comm/CFI/CFII and about to have my MEI. I am graduating this spring and have no idea where to start.
I would like to fly cargo to build multi time and experience and then move on to a corporate job.
I am graduating from ASU with a BS in Aeronautical Management Technology (which doesn't mean much). I had the option of interviewing and a 99.9% probability of getting on with Mesa Airlines as a CRJ FO. I decided against it because of the talk I've heard through other graduates and sim instructors of the way the airlines are hard on families. I forgot to mention I have enough kids for the starting line on a basketball team and an over-achieving wife getting a PhD.
We also don't get very many opportunities to fly in inclement weather, but I've got about 700 hrs of mountain flying experience and associated high density altitude performance.
I am presently working as a CFI at my school. I've built about 800 hrs but only have about 45 hrs multi with only 15 of that being PIC. I'm not sure where to go other than the internet to figure out how to meet people that are not going to the regional.
If anyone has any ideas or contacts with a cargo or freight company in the Midwest, I would be greatly appreciative.
Take the job at Mesa. You could be a DHC-8 captain real quick, then move on to corporate. Hot women can get hired in corporate with less than 1000, but for the rest of us you need turbine time, prefarbly 1000 turbine PIC. Otherwise you'll spend YEARS flailing around in the corporate world.
Any regional is better than night cargo...especially since you have a family. Regionals are actually pretty safe, but night cargo has a significant fatality rate (but it's great training if you survive
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