Originally Posted by VegasChris

" and probably lying about your flight time." was what I was referring to.

I am not offended, but I am not going to be called a liar and sit back and take it without saying anything back either.

The hours I build in the piston are to get the check boxes on the R-ATP requirement filled. I do not think my single engine plane will adequately prepare me to fly something 10 times as heavy and 5 times as fast.

Everyone says teaching as a CFI will make me a better pilot, so I plan on doing that while earning hours in my own plane.

I would love to get turbine time or jet time (PIC or SIC) prior to becoming eligible for my R-ATP, its just not going to happen in the current market. There are quite a few low time people with a few more hours than me that will stick around to 1500 hours that would be a much better investment for these companies to hire when compared to me. Who wants to pay for a type rating or insure me at 300 hours and also let me pick what days I want to fly so I can keep my regular job that pays the bills all while I am just trying to get to the magic number that happens to be 500 hours less than a lot of other guys ? I know I wouldn't.

So that leaves me with CFI on my time and time building in my plane on my schedule. I know I am going to have shine a bit more in the interview and really push myself hard through training. I am ok with that. The whole point of my question was to see when I should start putting in applications to make sure I am not pushing to get my hours done and then sit for 4 months waiting for a class date.


I get the frustration with the guys that have been around for a while. I know it wasn't uncommon for someone to have 5000tt with 3000 PIC jet before the regionals would even look at them, and here I am coming with 1000 hours in a single engine piston trying for the same spot. It doesn't seem right, but thats the climate of today's market so I am taking advantage of the timing.