Originally Posted by Gamermire

Take out a loan, go back for a masters, whatever you need to do, go and get 100 hours of multi engine time flying in the most challenging airspace you can and in the most IMC you can. Get in as many approaches as you can, both vector-to-final and full approaches. Some of this can be done in a sim with a CFII or A/IGI working you over.

As a former airline ground instructor, the guys who did not have a lot of currency were buried in the procedures trainer. I didn’t have time to teach you how to fly an approach, I had very little time to teach you how to integrate our callouts and procedures into your current IMC procedures. You might not have had to fly a full STAR or SID/DP before, so I can coach that, but if you don’t have the mental capacity to keep the plane upright while spitting out the required callouts on approach, there is very little I can do other than suggest getting some hard busy IMC and IFR time before trying again at your next airline.

There are time building programs out there, some very reasonable. Unfortunately, unless someone is a CFI, the time in IMC doesn’t count for one of you. You can really get a flying workout if you go in with an agenda and nail the 100 hours in about a month. I would not suggest trying to do this is poor weather areas like anywhere north of the Mason-Dixon in winter.

Having said this, the currency will get you hired. If you don’t fly again until your class date, you are not as screwed as before, but, you’re still screwed. You’ll need to do an active flying job between getting that currency and starting class. Staying on at the place you did the time building to be an instructor is an idea. Flying for a cargo outfit is another. Survey work, not so much, as VMC does not keep up the IMC currency. Strive to do an approach a day, and bump it up before class.

Good luck! This is a great time to go for a flying career. Wages are up. Work rules are up. And some places don’t even have CRJ200s anymore. (As much fun as it was to fly, dead APUs were an all-to-frequwnt buzzkill on that fun).