Originally Posted by
The Juice
It will allow you to be all set up for some time instructing. You would have been hard presses to find a job with 250TT before the fall out, now there is no chance. Even the places that are hiring want 1000TT min and those are just the minumums. There are furloughed pilots with 2000+TT with real CRJ 200 time, not just a standards course.
Seriously, no chance...sorry to be the bearer of bad news. Not to be a jerk but I do have to say as well, with 250 hours you should be more concerned with developing your pilot skills as an instructor and realize you have a lot to learn before hopping into a jet.
If I were you, I won't listen to Juice.
Granted that times are tough and few airlines are hiring, but we've had many pilots at Mesaba with less than 300 hours and they did well in the CRJ-200, CRJ-900, and the Saab340 classes.
You have impressive number of ME hours for your total time. Besides, many pilots with your number of hours had been hired to fly for major airlines all over the world so don't let this concern you.
Of course you'd find so many pilots here who somehow think that there's a 'magic' number of hours that qualify you to fly a HP Twin, Turboprop, a regional jet, or bigger jet.
Good Luck.