Originally Posted by
nicholasblonde
Options I see as possibilities for you:
1) Flight Academies in China/India/UAE: I hear stay away from Pan-Am China...might check and see if there are others...Dubai Aerospace University and some place in Abu Dhabi were paying tons of $ to pro instructors last year...not sure what the reqs were but might as well check it out...
2) Canada: Not sure what their situation is up there, but they might still have a few foreign students training up there due to somewhat easier Canadian to JAR conversion process...look into Moncton Flight College and some other ones...an ATP is easy to convert FAA->Canadaian, but not sure on instructor certificates
3) I heard of some Cessna manufacturer-owned flight school in India...some Cessna test pilot from Wichita was trying to get me to go instruct for some huge amount of money in India on brand new G1000 172s...10 month contract...I have no idea if that's still going on...and flying initial PPL students around in rural India might not be the glamour you're seeking in an overseas flying experience
4) Africa--the wild west of aviation...not too many people know who is hiring or what they're looking for unless they've actually been there in person...people have gone there and come out (or not) with time on everything ranging from a 402 to a 742...I'm too tired to think of any companies right now, but there are some South African flight schools of good standing over there, and a few NGOs/charter co's with good equipment that might be good places to get on the ground and network from there...you could maybe check out Interair or Transafrik but in this day and age even they probably have type-rated candidates turning in resumes...there are rumors of cabbies in London with 2000 hours of time on 73s who still can't find jobs....go figure
5) This is probably what I'd do in ur shoes: find a US military aero club on base in Germany or Korea and get a job instructing there...you'd have to do an additional PT job of some sort to get status/SOFA card to be on base, but there are always jobs like cafeteria, bartending, med tech, etc. to be had...they have N-reg planes and decent payrates usually...you'd be training US servicemembers on well-maintained equipment...decent gig...if you're extremely interested let me know and I might be able to point u in the right direction...too tired to put up any details right now...
I am interested in this. Can you point me in the right direction?