Originally Posted by
rickair7777
It's a value-add for sure, but NOT a substitute for flying experience. It's one thing to understand safety systems, quite another to apply that theory in the real world while flying a jet. If you don't believe me now, you'll know what I'm talking about in eight years...
Bear in mind there are probably thousands of ex-military safety officers in the airlines. That helped them get hired, but it probably had more to do with all that military turbine PIC.
If you have high-level connections, that might actually be a shortcut.
Yeah, I’m definitely not disagreeing. I’m just thinking it might be possible to apply to “another” job at wherever I ultimately want to end up going, and get in as a pilot internally 6 months to 1 year afterwards. I.E. Applying for a Flight Ops Regulatory Compliance Specialist, IEP Auditor or Flight Safety Specialist job, then asking to go through ground school later. I’ve seen something like this happen/work multiple times at the airlines I’ve worked at before.