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10-06-2008 | 08:25 PM

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Originally Posted by BoilerWings

I can echo much of what the more experienced people have already said. I was one of the guys that got hired by eagle and was sent to an RJ class. When I went, I had 550TT/50ME. I was the HIGHEST time guy in the RJ class, and the only CFI/CFII, 250 dual given at the time. This may scare some of the older guys, but the lowest time guy was 210TT/100ME.

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Originally Posted by BoilerWings

I would highly recommend instructing for a while. You don't really know the material until you can teach it. And you'll REALLY know it when you can teach the same concept 5 different ways. The industry now just is not demanding pilots, even CFI jobs are hard to come by.

-Instruct, learn how to teach and grow in knowledge.
-Fly freight, test your limits and practice what you taught.
-Then go the airlines and transport people safely.

Three pieces of advice given to me by a wise man once:
Persistance is key
Never stop learning
Realize that you'll never have a career in aviaion, just a series of "gigs."

I disagree with this whole post. Honestly, teaching as a CFI does not have much in common with regional or major airline flying or the airliners. This concept of logging many hundred of hours instructing only exists here in the US. I have seen CFI who have thousands of hours of dual given time totally flunk out of airline program on the other hand I have personally attended classes with few who never instructed, had low time, and did just fine in turboprop and/or turbofan classes.

Flying freight…well, you need over 1200 hours to even be qualified to fly freight. By that time, you’d have almost 900 hours of turbine time with an airline.

And there’s nothing to be scary about 210 hours of Total Time. I can give you an example of a 250 hour pilot who was hired and trained on a B-757. Perhaps it’s time that we all get off this bandwagon of low-time vs high-time.

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