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Old 03-10-2024 | 06:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Flyboy31
a 1500 hour CFII that did laps in the pattern the entire time, not that there's anything wrong with that
I'd say there's definitely something wrong with that. 1500 hrs of 172 time is not appropriate for flying a transport jet into LaGuardia at night in icing. Only very specific circumstances make CFI>regional competitive.

At your phase in the career, it's about making your logbook better. (Thicker too, but mostly better.). If you get offered a job that makes your logbook better, you take it unless there's a strong reason not to.

Planesense is reputable. Planesense has reasonable QOL. Planesense will give you multi-crew, turbine, night/icing/complex airspace experience. Planesense will make you much more marketable than ASEL CFI

As for where you wil be in 12-24 months ... who knows. Get 4 seasons of flying in at PlaneSense, upgrade if you can and then start looking around.

I would bet $100 that when the sun goes supernova, 2021-2023 will stand as the all-time highpoint of airline hiring. I don't think furloughs are happening anytime soon but hiring be slower than it was. Probably a pace that allows the regionals to recover and restores the normal universe where experienced regional captains outnumber big 6 job openings. All of which to say ... make yourself a plan to get to a major at 30 & 10K hours and work backwards.
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