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Old 11-15-2020, 07:24 AM
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firefighterplt
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Depending where you are in your LE organizational structure, that might be one hell of a pay cut—but I’m sure you already knew that.

I’ve always been told, and I’ve learned the hard way...flight time is king. High quality flight time is even better...ONCE you’ve met the minimums. I’ve got ~1100TT as a former F/A-18 pilot, and I’m getting passed over for low time jobs by C172 CFIs with that magic 1500TT that so many companies want. Lots of companies have hard minimums, especially now, and many applications have flight hour filters...flight time is flight time—just is what it is. Anyway...need be, at some point in the future you can take out a small loan and bang out your ATP in a month. 500+ hours of turbine MEL time is much harder to find. If you’re going to make the jump, I would be very hesitant to pass up a job that will give you turbine MEL time. ATP can be had at any time.
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