Originally Posted by
Bonanzer
Congrats on the career change. I always liked flying with the second career folks at Republic because they seemed to really enjoy/appreciate the job. I’ll second the get good and instrument current and add try to fly something with a complex flight guidance panel and autopilot. As far as regionals go I really enjoyed my 8 yrs at republic. Quality of life was too notch. I’ve heard similar about Skywest as well.
You want a guidance panel and an auto pilot. Are you purchasing your own DA 40? I think that’s what it’s going to take and the last guy I knew who bought one spent 165K. And he didn’t even get the air conditioning option. Which was particularly uncomfortable going to Key West in July. And that was a 2006 model so I’m not sure what they go for now? He was so clueless he had his maintenance manuals sitting in the backseat of the aircraft. I told him to get them out of there and put them in a safe place.