Originally Posted by
Sadlerg5
yeah, maybe 10 hours in a Cessna over the 13 year gap I had. But my situation was different from simply saying my timing was good. My timing was actually extremely bad in terms of graduating college nine months after 911. I was mid career in a 25 year Atc career, and because I had CRJ time from 2008, I was able to capitalize on a unique opportunity by leveraging previous 1:21 time and going back to the cockpit because they needed people that could upgrade quickly.
I feel bad for your situation, but why would you resign from a position before a confirmed class date with AA?
I put my two weeks notice in with the FAA, literally exactly 2 weeks before my start date with Envoy
Oh, your situation makes sense now. True, after 9/11 it was incomparably worse than how it is today. Yeah, it was stupid jumping off the ship thinking "man, I am ripped, I can swim for hours and definitely make it to the shore". My previous gig had 3 months' notice period and I couldn't rescind it once I resigned. Once I got my permanent residence, I thought of nothing except arriving this beautiful country as soon as possible and catching the hiring wave before it crashed. Probably having logged 9K hours, being a part 141 flight school graduate, holding engineering degree, ATP with PIC type, passenger, cargo, wet lease, ferry ops across 5 continents and a clean record boosted my confidence. I still think I would have been very competent and flying if BA didn't crap the bed. Anyway, past is past, right? Sorry in case it sounded like me bragging, just wanted to provide context. Hope we fly together one day. Fly safe and take care!