Originally Posted by SoFloFlyer

In no particular order:

- Get your degree
- Diversify your experience (MEI helps, but not a huge deal if you get on with a 135/9 op).
- Volunteer
- Take on more responsibility to stand out
- Keep a clean record. Busts happen, but try to keep those to a minimum (2 or less I’d say). Checkrides matter a lot more once you start doing type rating Ms and go to recurrent.

Good luck!