Originally Posted by
bne744
Agreed with the posts on here, get that MEI, there are a number of people I know around the regional world that do not even have a CFI...Get paid to build time and not pay for it, with fuel being so high I can't imagine you'll be able to find a very good rate on a twin anyways....
Some CFI's are the worst airline pilots I have flown with. 1000 hours of day VFR around the pattern doesnt do much in a jet shooting an approach to mins in a blizzard.
Sometimes its a matter of being in the right place at the right time, without having to buy your flight time. Then you wont need a CFI and can have just as good quality, if not better flight time doing things besides instruction.
Before I get accused of CFI bashing, I'm not....just showing another side of the story. There's more than one route to quality flight time, some are just harder/luckier to find than others. But a blanket statement that a CFI should be required for an airline job is a little too far out there..