Most employers require some sort of recent experience...100 hours in 6 months or 200 hours in 12 months.

I think that as long as you could meet the recent mins, that would be good enough if you total times were otherwise competitive. In other words, you would need to get an aviation job of some sort when things turn around.

The one thing I'm not sure about is if you would need recent turbine experience...if so, you could get a regional or 135 job. If not, you could just CFI or whatever on weekends and keep your day job until the majors call.

I'm going to move this to the recruiter section, maybe Lori has some insight.