Originally Posted by
marcal
While flying a Twot in the arctic is better experience than day VFR, in the end CX hires flight instructors into their DESO program.....the experience gradient in the SO seat is enormous.....meet the mins and apply.
Somewhat misleading there Marcal,
CX may have taken the odd Aussie or Brit CFI over 5 years ago but not a hope in hell of a US CFI getting a DESO slot.
Proskuneho, if you sift through all the BS on the various boards, you'll find that CX have taken guys with Turboprop time from Canada, Australia and the EU, for the DESO program. BUT, I've never come across anyone from the US who's had anything less than Jet Turbine time.
Now, we could debate the reasons all day but right now, or more to the point when they start hiring again, everyone applying is pretty much going to have Jet Turbine time and hell of a lot of it.
A good mate of mine who's been there almost 20 years, says that all the SO's he flies with, other than the cadets, have had Jet time and been Captains in a previous life.
If you call HR in HKG, you'll find that the unofficial mins are 3000TT and 1000 Turbine. Apply before then but I wouldn't expect to get a call until you have those numbers.
If CX is really all you want, at some point taking a trip over there, is probably what you're going to have to do.